Pleasant View Cemetery
A Pioneer Cemetery in Clackamas County, Oregon
Resident of Lot 15, Plot 1

Charles Wilson

Birth:  Apr 1827;   Death:  27 Nov 1905;   Burial:  29 Nov 1905;   Nativity:  Denmark

Location:  Lot 15, Plot 1   (block A)

Ledger Notes:
Age:  79 Yrs., 7 Mos., 28 Days    Nativity:  Denmark

General Notes:
Likely pioneer.  The ledger lists a burial date in 1905 but stone says death date is 1906.  Charles Wilson was the first postmaster in Wilsonville and the town was named after him.  

Husband of Fredricka (Kurtz); Father of William, Bertha (Hasselbrink), John, Louisa (Boston), Amelia (Gosser), Matilda (Voss), Charles, Lawrence, Anna, Fritz, Rose (Thompson), Nellie (Smith), Mary (Roy), and Harry Wilson

Obituary:

The Oregon City Enterprise, December 1, 1905
Died
At his home in Sherwood, Charles Wilson, an old Oregon mercantile pioneer having been the founder of Wilsonville. He leaves a large family of children and grandchildren besides his wife. The burial took place in Pleasant Hill cemetery.

 

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