- Date Of Death: June 25, 2012
- State: Idaho
Jim Harold Wilson
Jim Harold Wilson, 84, the last of the Elias and Verda Wilson pioneer
family, having outlived all nine of his siblings passed away June 25, 2012
at his home in Star Valley where he and his wife Harriett have lived the
last four years.
Jim was born Dec. 4, 1927 at the family home in South Park, Jackson. He was
the ninth of 10 children. His siblings included Ethel (Buck) Allen, Bill
(Jeanette), Sylvester (Edna), Mary (Raleigh) Stevens, May (Sam) McDaniels,
Becky (Marion) Robertson, George (Dorothy), John (Ethel) and Joe (Edwina).
His grandparents Sylvester and Mary Wood Wilson, some of the first white
settler families, arrived in the Jackson Hole Valley in July of 1889 with
their 11 children, one of which was Elias Wilson age 12: Jim¹s father. The
family homesteaded in what now is South Park and the home is still standing
and in use today.
