Thank you Dale for giving us the honor of managing Wilson's memorial.
Janet, thank you for sharing the picture and land records.
Thank you Lawrence for the Congressional Election info and spelling of CONNOR vs CONNER. As of 2024 we will use the spelling of Connor.
He was known as Wilson W. Connor and Wilson W Conner depending on the document and date. This is currently being researched. Anyone having any documents with various spellings we would so appreciate a copy sent to [email protected].
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OBITUARY:
W. W. CONNER DIED AT HIS HOME NEAR WILLARD, DEC 19, 1910.
Hon. W.W. Conner, one of Harper county's foremost citizens passed from this life to the great beyond, Monday, Dece 19, 1910. W.W. Conner was born near Logansport, Stark County, Indiana, November 30, 1841 and at the time of his death was 69 years old. His youth and rearing was amidst the exciting and stirring times which preceded the great Civil War, and being a young man of strong convictions, when the war broke out he joined the Union forces and served his country with honor for almost three years.
August 18, 1863 he was married to Miss Malinda Wagoner at Indianola, Iowa. About 1865 they with their oldest child, moved to Nebrashka, in which state most of their children were born, and where he espoused the cause of good government and clean politics. In this capacity he took an active and prominent part, being presidential elector in 1876. In 1887 he moved from Nebraska to Kansas, where he again entered the political field at one time being the traveling companion of Jerry Simpson and other, in a political tour of the state. About eight years ago me and part of his family moved to near Willard, Harper County, Oklahoma, where he has since made his home, devoting his entire time to promoting the good of his fellow man and to the support of his family.
Brother Conner and his good wife have walked the ways of this life together for 47 years. Their married life has been productive and happy. To them were born twelve children, four girls and eight boys, one of the girls and thre of the boys being dead.
Mr Conner's life has ben that of a pioneer, having aided in the settlement of four sttes. His children have imitated their father in that they are pioneers also. A J Conner lives in Barber County, Kansas and the oldest girl at Joliet, Montana. Two daughters reside at Pawhuska, Oklahoma. One son is now in Colorado and three sons reside in Harper County.
For years Brother Conner thought that whatever salvation we have would come as a reward for having lived a moral life, but five years while we were meting at Liberty shcoolhouse, he renewed his vows to God and told the large audience that morality, while a good thing in man, it of itself is not suffieient and that it takes Christianity, of which morality is only a part. He has since lived a life consistent with this thought.
It has been the writer's good pleasure and profit to have know Brother Conner for over five years and during this entire time have never found him wanting in honesty and integrity of character. He always expused the side of right and principally regardless of what others thought.
The deceased leaves behind a host of friends and relatives to mourn his death, but let us pray that our loss may be his gain, commending his spirit to the God who doeth all things well and worketh all thing according to the counsel of his own will.
The funeral services conducted by J K Baker of near Buffalo, who preached to a large concourse of people. The family desired to express their thanks to the surrounding community in this behalf.
During the Civil War he served as a Private in Company G, 10th Iowa Infantry.
He was known as Wilson W. Connor and Wilson W Conner depending on the document and date. This is currently being researched. Anyone having any documents with various spellings we would so appreciate a copy sent to [email protected].
He was married to Malinda Conner and they had a son William who is also buried in the Willard Cemetery.
Thank you Dale for giving us the honor of managing Wilson's memorial.
Janet, thank you for sharing the picture and land records.
Thank you Lawrence for the Congressional Election info and spelling of CONNOR vs CONNER. As of 2024 we will use the spelling of Connor.
He was known as Wilson W. Connor and Wilson W Conner depending on the document and date. This is currently being researched. Anyone having any documents with various spellings we would so appreciate a copy sent to [email protected].
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OBITUARY:
W. W. CONNER DIED AT HIS HOME NEAR WILLARD, DEC 19, 1910.
Hon. W.W. Conner, one of Harper county's foremost citizens passed from this life to the great beyond, Monday, Dece 19, 1910. W.W. Conner was born near Logansport, Stark County, Indiana, November 30, 1841 and at the time of his death was 69 years old. His youth and rearing was amidst the exciting and stirring times which preceded the great Civil War, and being a young man of strong convictions, when the war broke out he joined the Union forces and served his country with honor for almost three years.
August 18, 1863 he was married to Miss Malinda Wagoner at Indianola, Iowa. About 1865 they with their oldest child, moved to Nebrashka, in which state most of their children were born, and where he espoused the cause of good government and clean politics. In this capacity he took an active and prominent part, being presidential elector in 1876. In 1887 he moved from Nebraska to Kansas, where he again entered the political field at one time being the traveling companion of Jerry Simpson and other, in a political tour of the state. About eight years ago me and part of his family moved to near Willard, Harper County, Oklahoma, where he has since made his home, devoting his entire time to promoting the good of his fellow man and to the support of his family.
Brother Conner and his good wife have walked the ways of this life together for 47 years. Their married life has been productive and happy. To them were born twelve children, four girls and eight boys, one of the girls and thre of the boys being dead.
Mr Conner's life has ben that of a pioneer, having aided in the settlement of four sttes. His children have imitated their father in that they are pioneers also. A J Conner lives in Barber County, Kansas and the oldest girl at Joliet, Montana. Two daughters reside at Pawhuska, Oklahoma. One son is now in Colorado and three sons reside in Harper County.
For years Brother Conner thought that whatever salvation we have would come as a reward for having lived a moral life, but five years while we were meting at Liberty shcoolhouse, he renewed his vows to God and told the large audience that morality, while a good thing in man, it of itself is not suffieient and that it takes Christianity, of which morality is only a part. He has since lived a life consistent with this thought.
It has been the writer's good pleasure and profit to have know Brother Conner for over five years and during this entire time have never found him wanting in honesty and integrity of character. He always expused the side of right and principally regardless of what others thought.
The deceased leaves behind a host of friends and relatives to mourn his death, but let us pray that our loss may be his gain, commending his spirit to the God who doeth all things well and worketh all thing according to the counsel of his own will.
The funeral services conducted by J K Baker of near Buffalo, who preached to a large concourse of people. The family desired to express their thanks to the surrounding community in this behalf.
During the Civil War he served as a Private in Company G, 10th Iowa Infantry.
He was known as Wilson W. Connor and Wilson W Conner depending on the document and date. This is currently being researched. Anyone having any documents with various spellings we would so appreciate a copy sent to [email protected].
He was married to Malinda Conner and they had a son William who is also buried in the Willard Cemetery.
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