N. T. Wilson

WILSON, PAYNE, MOFFETT

Posted By: Beverly Gerdts (email)
Date: 9/25/2021 at 11:42:59

Columbus Gazette, Columbus Junction, Iowa
Thursday, January 2, 1902
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N. T. Wilson was born in Clark County on September 7, 1832 and died in Florida, December 16, 1901, not quite living the allotted span. He was a good citizen and lived a life of usefulness, his influence always for the right. In the state of Ohio, October 26, 1854, he was married to Mary A. Payne and in 1857 removed to Iowa and settled in Louisa county, residing here nineteen years with the exception of three years in Jefferson county, near Pleasant Plain.

He was a brick mason by trade and a good one, as the bank and public school building in Brighton will long attest. He taught school in Concord township in the days of the old log school house and there are many citizens here past middle age who received instruction of him. His home in Concord township is now the Higginbottom farm.

He was converted in early life and joined the Christian Church. He and his good wife lived as earnest Christians and associated themselves with every good work that had for its object the advancement of education, morals or Christianity.

In 1876, they removed to Decatur county and lived near Leon. Early in 1892 for the benefit of the wife's health they left the state for DeFuniak spring Florida where she passed away, two years ago. Five children, two sons and three daughters, mourn the loss of their last parent; Eugene of Chariton; Albion, of Decatur county; Mrs. Moffett of Clearfield; and May and Olive, who were with their father in his last illness.