Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 232, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1920 — FORMER RESIDENT OUR GUEST [ARTICLE]

FORMER RESIDENT OUR GUEST

Comrade R. B. Wilson, who had attended the G. A. R. Encampment at Indianapolis, and had stopped off here for a visit on his way home, left this afternoon for his home in Kansas. Mr. Wilspn and family were residents of this city for eleven years. They owned arid occupied the residence on North Van Rensselaer street now the property of Mrs. Elizabeth Beck. The Wilsons left hero in 1893 going to Osborne, Kans. The family consisted of the father, mother, one son and two daughters. The mother died in Greensburg, Kans., in 1895. Mr. Wilson remarried in 1911 and his second wife died with the influenza in February, 1920. Rufus, the son, lives in Kinsley, Kans., and travels fora patent medicine firm. The father makes ms home with the son when he is not at the Old Soldiers’ home m Fort Leavenworth, Kans. The oldest daughter, now Mn. Ethel Boughton, lives on a farm m Phillips Co., Kans. She has a grown and they are prospering. The youngest daughter, now Lera Boughton,, having married her Rater’s husband’s brother, hves on a farm in Hamilton county, Kans. She Jhas two daughters. She and the young daughter are teaching school in the district near their home. । -