Margaret A.
Wife of
G.P. Wilson
Born
Mar. 14, 1836
Died
Apr. 11, 1906
Buried in
the Wilson Family Cemetery, off Bells Mines Church Road, Crittenden County,
Kentucky. The above tombstone was photographed 1 April 2013. Note the blooming daffodils.
Margaret A.
Wilson's obituary tells a great deal about her life. She was "born in
Livingston county, Ky., March 14, 1836; was married to Mr. George P. Wilson
March 24, 1853, and died at their home near Weston, Ky., April 11, 1906.
"Sister
Wilson professed religion when quite young and joined the Methodist church in
1853. She was of cheerful disposition,
and was an earnest, faithful worker in the church, and as a result of this
faithful life many were induced to give up sin and turn to God.
"She
leaves a husband, three sons and three daughters to mourn their loss. Two sons
preceded her to the sun-bright clime above. Aunt Mag, as she was familiarly
called, will be greatly missed. I preached her funeral at the residence where
she had lived so long and we laid her away in the family cemetery near by, which
she had already adorned with flowers, to await the resurrection at the last
day." [signed] R.C. Love.[1]
The flowers
in the cemetery planted by Margaret A. Wilson are still visible in the photograph above. We first
located this cemetery in the early 1990s and several years later we used the flowers
to guide us to the cemetery. The photograph below was made during a visit in the 1990s.
Wilson Cemetery with blooming daffodils 1990s
[1] "Obituary,"
Crittenden Record-Press, Marion, KY,
Fri., 4 May 1906, p . 1.
Published 3 May 2018, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog, http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/
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