Gladys Fern (Applegate) Wilson (1918)
APPLEGATE, WILSON
Posted By: Kent Transier (email)
Date: 12/28/2011 at 07:20:48
Winterset Madisonian
Wednesday, December 11, 1918
Page 4, Column 2Earlham
The body of Mr. (sic) Wayne W. Wilson of Wyoming was brought to Earlham Sunday evening and laid to rest in the family lot in Stringtown cemetery, Monday with a short service at the grave. Mrs. Wilson will be remembered in Earlham as Miss Fern Applegate. She died after four days sickness of flu.
________________________Earlham Echo
Earlham, Iowa
Thursday, December 12, 1918The words of our Savior, “Watch thou therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour when the son of man cometh” were brought fresh to the minds of many Friday morning when a telegram bearing the sad news that Fern G. Wilson had succumbed to the dread disease Spanish Influenza December 5 at Douglas, Wyoming. Thirty years ago in March, the 16th , a dark-eyed black haired baby girl came to gladden the home of Benton and Rosalie Applegate.
She made her home with her parents in Madison County until ----- of her mother’s death in 1906. She and her sister then resided in Des Moines about two years, where both attended school. They then accompanied their father to Nebraska. Fern was married to Wayne W. Wilson June 7, 1916.
When but a small girl she united in membership with the Christian Church.
She was the youngest of three children, her husband and father, as well as her sister and brother beside a host of friends being left to mourn her departure.
A short service was held at three p.m. Monday, Dec. 9, conducted at the cemetery by Clarence Eppard, and interment was in the family lot in Stringtown Cemetery.
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