Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 122, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1909 — California Forty-Niner Passed Away at Delphi Tuesday. [ARTICLE]

California Forty-Niner Passed Away at Delphi Tuesday.

John D. Wilson, president of A. T. Bowen & Co.’s bank at Delphi, and a California forty-niner, died at his home in that city Tuesday morning at 3 o’clock. He was born in Virginia in 182 S, and moved with his parents to Carroll county when one year of age. The funeral will be held Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock, Rev. Edward Baech officiating. Mr. Wilson was one of the young men who left this section of Indiana during the gold finding excitement in California in 1849, and one of his closest friends on that trip was Jacob Troxell, of this city, father of Mrs. t. N. Hemphill and Mrs. C. J. Dean. Mr. Troxell died on Nov. 8, 1905, and Mr. Wilson was one of the pall bearers at his funeral. During the life of each they occasionally came in contact and reviewed the exciting times and the hardships of the trip across the Rockies. Mrs. Hemphill and Mrs. Dean were notified of the death of Mr. Wilson, but neither will be able to attend the funeral. So far as they know Mr. Wilson was the last of the 49 party df which their father was a member.