Amelia Damaris (Stoddard) Wilson (1844-1918)

STODDARD, WILSON, FRENCH, WALSWORTH

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 9/26/2021 at 21:24:26

From Nevada Representative May 9, 1918 (page 5)

OBITUARY

MRS. O. W. WILSON

Amelia Damaris Stoddard, daughter of Rev. John Edwin and Edna Walsworth Stoddard, was born in Oswegatchie, New York, Feb. 24, 1844. Her marriage took place in Morristown, New York, when she became the wife of Orpheus W. Wilson, Nov. 24, 1870. Almost immediately in December of this year the couple came to Iowa and made their home near Nevada. Mr. Wilson's death occurred May 27, 1912.

Since that time Mrs. Wilson made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Ernest French, and it was there that she died, May 6, 1918 in her seventy-fifth year after an illness of ten weeks.

The near relatives who survive Mrs. Wilson are her son and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Jay W. Wilson of Des Moines; her daughter and her husband, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest French of this vicinity; and her sister, Mrs. Arvilla Walsworth of Nevada.

Mrs. Wilson was christened in the Methodist Episcopal church though she never became a member in full connection. She was of a shy disposition and it was not easy for her to express her feelings. Yet her sympathies were with the church and she attended its services. Her beliefs were those of a Christian and her support went to Christian enterprises. As a mother she was loving and devoted, and has left with her children an abiding and ineffaceable impression.

The funeral services were held at the Methodist church, Tuesday afternoon, May7 and were conducted by the pastor, Rev. R. M. Shipman. Burial was in the Nevada cemetery where Mrs. Wilson's husband and mother had already been laid away.