Laura Malvina (Darby) Wilson (1926)
DARBY, MARSH, WALKER, WILSON
Posted By: Kent Transier
Date: 11/8/2023 at 18:04:34
The Winterset News
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, September 23, 1926
Page 1, Column 4Death of Mrs. Jerry Wilson
Mrs. Laura M. Wilson, pioneer resident of Madison and Adair counties, died at noon today. She had been ill for several weeks. No announcement has been made of the funeral arrangements.
Mrs. Wilson is the mother of Eugene Wilson and Mrs. Lester Walker, of Macksburg. Clarence Wilson, another son, lives in California.
She was a pioneer teacher, and both she and her husband, Jerry Wilson, were widely acquainted in both Adair and Madison counties.
________________________The Winterset News
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, September 30, 1926
Page 1, Column 3MRS. JERRY WILSON CALLED BY DEATH
Resident of County Since 1860 - Member of Pioneer Family - One of Early Teachers of Madison County - Wilson Home Widely Known For Its Hospitality.
Mrs. Laura M Wilson, a resident of the county since 1860, died at her home in Winterset September 23, shortly after noon, at the age of eighty-three years. She had been ill for several months and for some time her condition had been considered very serious.
Mrs. Wilson was a member of the well-known John Darby family, which came to Winterset in 1855. Later the family settled on Cedar in Union Township, and in 1858 Mr. Darby what the section of land in Penn township where he lived until his death. Mrs. Wilson joined her family here in 1860, coming to Iowa from Holmes county, Ohio. Her marriage to Jerry Wilson occurred in 1869.
Mr. Darby was an ardent abolitionist and his home was a station on the underground railway over which many negroes passed on their way to freedom in the north. Mrs. Wilson lived in the stirring days of the Civil war and always maintained an interest in affairs of her country. She was one of the early teachers of the county.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Wilson were widely known. They lived until Mr. Wilson’s death in 1910, on the home farm in Adair county, where there far-reaching hospitality was extended to many. They were among the most popular and most prominent of the early residents of the county.
Short funeral services were held in Winterset Saturday, conducted by the Rev. D. J. Shenton, of the Methodist church. Longer services were conducted at the Macksburg church later the afternoon by the Rev. Shenton and interment was made in the old family burying ground on the home farm.
Mrs. Wilson is survived by her sons, Eugene Wilson, cashier of the Macksburg National bank, and Clarence Wilson, of Alamosa, Colorado; her daughters, Mrs. Sybil Marsh, of Chanute, Kansas; Mrs. Mayme Walker, who lives on the old home farm.
________________________The Winterset News
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, September 30, 1926
Page 5, Column 3Mrs. Laura Darby Wilson
Laura Malvina Darby, daughter of John E. And Lucy A. Darby, was born in Holmes county, Ohio, January 3, 1843, and died September 23, 1926, aged 83 years, 8 months and 20 days. She came to Madison county in 1860, teaching school mostly in Madison county for 10 years. She was united in marriage to Jerry M. Wilson May 27, 1869 and moved at once to the farm on which they resided until after the death of her husband in 1910. In 1916 she moved to Winterset to the home in which she died.
She was preceded in death by one daughter, Laura Alice, who died in infancy. She is survived by one half- brother, M. E. Darby, of Aurora, Missouri; one half-sister, Mrs. Bessie Parks, of Sutherland, Nebraska, and four children, Eugene of Macksburg; Sibyl Marsh, of Chanute, Kansas; Clarence E., of Alamosa, Colorado, and Mayme B. Walker, of the old home farm, all of whom came to comfort her in her last illness. She also leaves 12 grandchildren besides nephews and nieces and other relatives and friends.
She united with the M. E. Church in early girlhood and remained a tireless worker in all Christian work until the infirmities of old age kept her from attending services, but even then found many ways of doing good. We can truly say she was a good mother and friend.
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