Willison, William abt 1848 - 1899

WILLISON

Posted By: Wilma J. Vande Berg (email)
Date: 2/6/2012 at 14:38:26

Hawarden Independent of Aug 31, 1899.
Wm. Willison a resident of the North side, was found dead; in his home Wednesday morning. He was
a bachelor and lived alone in the old postoffice building southwest of the brick block. Parties passing the building detected a peculiar and offensive odor and an investigation disclosed the horrible fact that "it Come" from a human
body. The last seen of him alive was Monday morning and the coroner's inquest condudted by Justice Heald, returned a verdict of
death from natural causes. He had $27.48 in currency on his person and a deposit check on the
Northweatern..State bank for $ 200.
He was about fifty years of age, a carpenter by trade, very quite and exclusive, and little of his history is known here, although a resident
of the place for several years. Letters disclose that he had a mother nnd brother at Belfast, N.
Y., who were notified of his sad and mysterious demise.
(His correct family could not be found by the subbmitter at this time. There was an Abri Willison born 1847 New York living in Alleghany County New York in the 1900 census, a possibility that he was William's brother.)