TOWELL, Wilson
Source: Kingman Star Friday, February 20, 1948
Funeral services for Wilson Towell were held at the Rush Creek Church Sunday afternoon. The scripture was read by the Rev. Ruth Isaac, and the obituary by Mrs. Lucille Rusk. The Rev. E. W. Woodard officiated. Music was furnished by Mrs. Gordon Marks and Mrs. Ferris Heath with Mrs. Guy Lindley, accompanist. Pall bearers and flower bearers were Guy Lindley, R. B. VanDuyn, Scott Marks, Byron R. Grismore, Lloyd Madden and L. E. Pithoud. -S
Source: Kingman Star Friday, February 27, 1948
Wilson H. Towell, son of George and Mary Lindley Towell, was born in the Rush Creek community of Liberty Township, Indiana, on April 4, 1855. He was the eighth child of nine children born to these pioneer parents and the last member of his family.
His father and mother belonged to the Society of Friends. He was a birth right member of the Friends Church; as a child attended church in the old Rush Creek meeting house; as he grew older, he was a Sunday School superintendent and a teacher in the church for many years. He was one of the few survivors of the old Rush Creek School, which he attended under the teaching of his older sisters, Dinah T. Henderson and Sarah T. McKey. He later attended Bloomington Academy and Earlham College where he was a member of Phi Delta Theta Fraternity. He was a teacher in the schools of Parke County for a number of years.
He was married to Myrta Bell Stanton, daughter of Martin and Margret Colson Stanton October 26, 1887 and they started their new home on the farm on which he was born and had grown to manhood.
To this union were born four children: Ina Towell Nevins, of Rosedale, Indiana, Frederick S. Towell of Wisconsin and Thad L. Towell of Danville, Ill., who survive him together with 10 grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren and a number of nieces and nephews; a daughter, Ester, having died in infancy.
He was a prosperous and successful farmer, a kind and loving husband and father, and held in the highest esteem by all who knew him.
After the passing of his wife in March 1918, he sold the old home place and for 26 years made his home with his son, Thad and family, then of Kingman, and his daughter, Mrs. Waldo Nevins and family of near Rosedale.
During the recent war, complications arose which made it necessary for his children to place him in the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Pithoud near Kingman, where he was accepted as a member of the family until the end, which came February 11, 1949, age 92 years, 10 months and four days.
In the passing of Wilson H. Towell, the last chapter is closed on the life of George and Mary Towell and their family. George Towell, who was born in North Carolina, was brought to Indiana as a small child by his father in a covered wagon the year Indiana was admitted to statehood, his mother having passed away on the journey and was buried along the trail. On this day, February 15, 1949, we lay him by the side of his beloved wife and with other members of his family. – thanks to S&E