He Drinks Poison, Thought it Water

As a result of drinking a glass of formaldehyde which he believed to be water, Peter Wilderson 78 years old, died last night at his home 128 E. 8th Street.  Mrs. Wilderson customarily kept a glass of formaldehyde under the bed for disinfecting purposes. Yesterday morning someone placed the glass upon a table in the room and Mr. Wilderson mistook it for a glass of water. 

Funeral announcements will be made later.

Transcribed and submitted by Margaret Gagliardi, January 2009.

Woman Pioneer Claimed by Death.

Mrs. E. A. Wilderson Helped Get First Edmond School. Mrs. Ellen A. Wilderson, 87 years old, Edmond pioneer, died Thursday after a three-year illness at the home of her daughters, Mrs. Frank Kibby and Mrs. Charles W. Miller, 218 Northeast Eighth Street. Mrs. Wilderson and her husband, the late Peter Wilderson, moved to Edmond in the autumn of 1889. She helped sponsor the building of a school house at Edmond, the first in the newly opened territory. Wilderson, a contractor and builder died in 1918. He and his wife moved to Oklahoma City in 1900. Mrs. Wilderson was a member of the First Presbyterian Church and the G. A. R.

Besides her daughters, she is survived by a son David A. Wilderson, 1023 Northeast Eighth Street, four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Services will be held from the Garrison Funeral Home at 10 a.m. Saturday. Burial will be in Fairlawn Cemetery.

Transcribed and submitted by Margaret Gagliardi, January 2009.