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.