"Former Pioneer Resident Passes"
Hale and Hearty until the last, Mrs. Sylvia Jane Wilson, former Lewis county pioneer and believed to have been the oldest resident in the state of Washington, died late yesterday at her home at Puyallup just one month before her 105th birthday. She had entertained California friends at her home Wednesday and at that time was enjoying god health. She made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Louise Johnson.
Mrs. Wilson was born in Tennessee, June 18, 1828, and was one of the few women in the United States receiving a pension from the United States as a widow of a Mexican war veteran, her first husband, Willis Moore, having been a soldier during the war of 1845.
Mrs. Wilson and her family moved from Tennessee to Missouri and in 1863 they moved to Lewis county, traveling over the old Oregon trail by covered wagon. Ten years ago Mrs. Wilson moved to Puyallup. She was a member of the Baptist church.
Besides her daughter, Mrs. Johnson, she is survived by three other daughters, Mrs. Melissa Givens of Chehalis, Mrs. Eliza White of Redlands, Cal., and Mrs. Alice Wedige of Bellingham; two sons, John Wilson of Curtis and George Wilson of Chehalis; 13 grandchildren; 50 great-grandchildren and several great-great-grandchildren.
Source: The Chehalis Bee-Nugget, 20 May 1933, page 1.
Transcribed by Diana Smith. She has no further information on this individual.