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Obituary of Thomas Wilson died December 20th 1893
From the McDonald Outlook newspaper, December 30, 1893, page unknown:
[NOTE: This sketch is about Thomas Wilson]
The subject of this sketch, who died at his residence in the Parkinson
property, Barr Street, McDonald, December 20th, was in many respects a
remarkable man. Being a person of good mind and fine taste, he had as far as
possible during the sixty-six years of his life stood aloof as a thoughtful
and rather melancholy observer from the rude, boisterous, and ill directed
activities of the crude life around him. He was a worker in wood and a master
hand at whatever he gave his mind to, and so unwillingly was he to spoil good
timber and half-do work that he said only wasted material and marred
landscape, that he could be induced with no money to engage in the rude of
rank and file carpenters around him, who forever in a hurried panic, without
forethought, design, or satisfactory result, were constructing dwellings and
business blocks that he considered inimical to all the first principles of
art. And so as an ax-man he found most pleasure alone with himself in the
woods. He was a great reader and thinker. The habit of his mind was logical,
and it was a pleasure to listen to his deliberate utterances of the well
defined thoughts he had forged in his solitude. Mr. WILSON spent his
boyhood on a small homestead near SMITH's Mills, on the B. & O. Railroad,
in North Strabane Township, to which place his father, who was originally from
Derry, Ireland, had come when Thomas was five years old. His mother's name was
MCCORKLE and was connected with the MCDONOUGHs, BERRYs, HARTs, WEIRs, HULTZes,
THOMASes, and other old families still in that country. He was a second cousin
of Cashier G. S. CAMPBELL and also of Mr. HULTZ, the young business partner of
'Squire MAY, who died of typhoid fever in McDonald a few years ago. When a
youth he went to Pittsburg and learned the trade of a carpenter and joiner. In
1847 he was married to Miss Eliza Ann MCCLAINE, who family had come to
Pittsburg from the East--a people noted for ability in intellectual pursuits.
Her father was the inventor of the first power threshing machine in this
country, long known as the "bunty machine," and she herself was a
person of unusual education and culture.
There were six children by this first marriage. Four died in infancy. Alice
L., the eldest, is the wife of Mr. Samuel AYERS, of East Noblestown Street;
Robert Burns is a resident of Frankfort, Ky., unmarried, and a man with a
national reputation as an artist and writer. Many of his productions have been
published in the Century Magazine. The WILSON family lived in Pittsburg, at
SMITH's Mills, (where the poet and artist Robert BURNS was born) at
Washington, and at West Alexander, where the wife died and was buried. In
after years Mr. WILSON was married to Miss AYERS, a daughter of Mr. John
AYERS, of Jumbo. They lived in Mansfield; in '72 they removed to Venice; in
'85 removed to McDonald. By this marriage were born two daughters--Ella J.,
wife of Edward JUDD and Harriet wife of Mr. ROBERTSON, well known citizens of
this place. Mr. WILSON was always a consistent member of the U. P. Church;
while in Mansfield served as an elder.
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