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Jane Gertrude <I>Howard</I> Wilson

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Jane Gertrude Howard Wilson

Birth
Greene County, Virginia, USA
Death
6 Jan 1906 (aged 74)
Moab, Grand County, Utah, USA
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Mrs. Jane G. Wilson, better known in this valley as "Grandma Wilson," passed away last Tuesday evening at the home of her daughter, Nancy Almira Wilson Allen. The funeral took place yesterday from the LDS ward meeting house.

Mrs. Wilson had nearly reached the age of 75 years. She was the first woman to settle in this valley and came at a time when pioneering here tried men and women's souls, her husband, Alfred Gideon Wilson, died at Moab, in 1887, having moved here with his family in 1878. Mr. Wilson was a member of the Mormon Battalion in the Mexican war. In the Indian troubles of 1880, two sons were killed in the battle at the head of Castle Valley, and their remains are buried near the so-called "Pinhook Battle Ground" where they fell. The following year, their son, Joseph, then a small boy, while herding cattle at the head of Moab Valley, was shot several times by renegade Indians, but escaped, crippled for life and blinded in one eye. Surely, Mrs. Wilson experienced all the hard life of the pioneer and has well earned the long rest she has gone to.

Grand Valley Times
1 December 1906
Mrs. Jane G. Wilson, better known in this valley as "Grandma Wilson," passed away last Tuesday evening at the home of her daughter, Nancy Almira Wilson Allen. The funeral took place yesterday from the LDS ward meeting house.

Mrs. Wilson had nearly reached the age of 75 years. She was the first woman to settle in this valley and came at a time when pioneering here tried men and women's souls, her husband, Alfred Gideon Wilson, died at Moab, in 1887, having moved here with his family in 1878. Mr. Wilson was a member of the Mormon Battalion in the Mexican war. In the Indian troubles of 1880, two sons were killed in the battle at the head of Castle Valley, and their remains are buried near the so-called "Pinhook Battle Ground" where they fell. The following year, their son, Joseph, then a small boy, while herding cattle at the head of Moab Valley, was shot several times by renegade Indians, but escaped, crippled for life and blinded in one eye. Surely, Mrs. Wilson experienced all the hard life of the pioneer and has well earned the long rest she has gone to.

Grand Valley Times
1 December 1906

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