Anna Mary (Heckert) Wilson (1848-1930)

HECKERT, WILSON, CHAMBERLIN, VAUTHRIN, MURRAY

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 8/18/2018 at 18:07:16

From Nevada Evening Journal December 15, 1930 (page 1)

PIONEER WOMAN DIED NEAR COLLINS

MRS. ANNA MARY WILSON HAD LIVE IN IOWA SINCE 1868

Special to the Journal.
Collins, Dec. 15--Funeral services for Anna Mary Wilson, 82, widow of Thomas B. Wilson, who died at her home southeast of Collins Saturday afternoon at 2:25, will be held at the M. E. church at Rhodes Tuesday afternoon at two o'clock, after which interment will be in the Rhodes cemetery.

Mrs. Wilson had been an invalid for thirty years and on November 13 suffered a broken shoulder blade in a fall, which was followed on December 1 by a stroke of paralysis which caused her death.

She was a native of North Umberland county, Pa., where she was born August 21, 1848, a daughter of Dan and Christina Heckerp. In 1855 the family moved to Illinois and in 1868 she came with her people to Iowa, settling at Rhodes.

It was there that she was married to Thomas B. Wilson on April 14, 1875. To this union 7 children were born. One son, Earl, died in 1910.

The surviving children are Mrs. Nora Chamberlin of Rhodes; Mrs. Myra Bauthrin of Bowsin, Alberta, Canada; Dorcy Wilson of Collins, Charles Wilson of Sedalia, Mo.; Dan Wilson of Collins and Mrs. May Murray of Huxley, Alberta, Canada.

The husband died July 1, 1901.

From 1895 to 1891 the family lived at Independence, Mo., but the balance of her life since coming to Iowa in 1868, was spent in this community, where she was ell and most favorably known.