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Show Mrs. Esther Ricks Wilson, 86. Dies Mrs. Esther Ricks Wilson, S6, prominent and beloved matriarch matri-arch who resided at 1019 Logan Ave., passed away Tuesday evening eve-ning of causes incident to age. Known to hundreds of neighbors neigh-bors and friends as "Grandma," Mrs. Wilson has been honored on her birthday for years. Funeral services will be conduced con-duced Friday at noon in the Bryan Ward chapel, 1621 Eleventh Ele-venth East St., Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Mrs. Wilson, a daughter of early pioneers, was born Oct. 28, 1862. in Logan, to Joel and Sarah Fisk Allen Ricks. She was born in a log cabin which her father built in 1S59 on the site of the present First Security Bank. She spent her girlhood ;n Lo-gan, Lo-gan, attending the First and Fourth Ward schools, and later the first high school, which was held in Lindquist Halll. Her father fa-ther owned a farm at Benson and a number of properties on Logan's Lo-gan's Main St. He also served as treasurer of Cache County for many years. On Aug. 17, 188S. she was married mar-ried to Joseph E. Wilson in the Logan Endowment House. She moved to Salt Lake City in 1912. Mr. Wlison died in Salt Lake City, Oct. 25, 1930. At the time of his death he was recorder for the Salt Lake Temple. Mrs. Wilson Wil-son was a member of Bryan Ward, Sugar House Stake. She is survived by two sons and three (laughters, Ellis Ricks Wilson, Ccnterville; Joel, Esther, and Ida Wilson, and Mrs. Walter F. Shwar, Salt Lake City; 13 grandhiklrcen, and four grcr.t-gra grcr.t-gra ndchiklren. |
