WILKENS, Thomas - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

Thomas Wilkens, a farm hand, died at his home near Boswell Sunday afternoon following an illness of several weeks with influenza and pneumonia.  He was 43 years of age, a widower and is survived by three small children who have been kept by relatives since the death of his wife five years ago. The body was taken to his boyhood home near Paxton, Ill for interment Tuesday afternoon.