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Margaret Wilkerson
Fort Towson Enterprise – March 15, 1912 – transcribed by Ron Henson

Prominent Woman Answered Summons
Mrs. Margaret Wilkerson Died Monday After A Protracted Illness
One of Leading Women in Choctaw Educational Work and Statewide Worker Among Royal Neighbors

    Margaret, wife of J.E. Wilkerson, died at the family apartments, 704 West Jackson street, at ten minutes past twelve o’clock Monday afternoon.
    Deceased was one of the teachers in the Hugo public schools, one of the most prominent members of the Royal Neighbors, being oracle in the local order, and considered one of the highest talented women in Southeastern Oklahoma.
    Three weeks ago Mrs. Wilkerson was compelled to cease her labor in the city schools, and shortly after that was confined to her bed, and from that until the hour of her death sank gradually, her ailment baffling medical skill.
    Mrs. Wilkerson has been a teacher in the Hugo schools for two terms, coming to this city from Fort Towson, where she was also a teacher. The husband, J.E. Wilkerson, owned a barber shop on Jackson street in the First National bank building until last August when he sold it to R.E. Woodson, the present proprietor. Since that time until he came home to attend his wife, Mr. Wilkerson has been employed in a shop at Soper.
    The deceased came to this country from Missouri. She was a teacher of splendid ability, and elocutionist of great power, and in Royal Neighbor and other lodge work had attained a state wide reputation. Few women in this section were equally well known and no one had stronger ideas or better ideals. In Hugo all who knew her was proud of her friendship, and in her death the city has lost one its foremost women and strongest intellectual characters.
    Mrs. Wilkerson had been married sixteen years, but there are no children of the union – Hugo Husonian.