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John D. Wilson
Fort Towson Enterprise – December 24, 1915, - transcribed by Ron Henson

    Good Citizen Gone
    J.D. Wilson Answers Call of Grim Reaper

    It is with regret and sorrow that we chronicle the death of J.D. Wilson Sunday morning in a sanitarium at Paris, after a few days’ siege of pneumonia.

    He was taken ill in Joplin, Mo., where he had been to look after some valuable mining property he had recently purchased. He took the train for home but by the time he reached Hugo was in such a serious condition that he went on to Paris and entered there. He rapidly grew worse and his wife and family were sent for and were with him when he died.

    John Wilson has for years been one of the prominent men of this section and one of the leaders in theChoctaw Nation, at one time being a representative in the Choctaw legislature at Tuskahoma. He was in the early fifties but was still a man of splendid physique, of strong character, and his natural force and build was such as to gain him notice wherever he appeared. His influence in this, his home neighborhood, was powerful and his voice was always welcome in council.

    The remains were brought home Monday morning and lay in state at his home until after noon when they were interred in Fort Towson cemetery. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. Averyt and was largely attended.

    Besides his wife, Mr. Wilson is survived by seven children, four sons and three daughters, by a former marriage. Three brothers also survive him.