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The New Leaf, Effingham, Kansas, 18 Oct 1895, Fri, Page 10
Rev. Hugh P. Wilson was born at Canfield, Ohio, August 26, 1839. His education was obtained at Princeton College and Alleghany Seminary. He was ordained in 1873 by Mahong Pesbytery. His first charge was at Homeworth, Ohio. In 1876 he went to Mr. Ayr, Iowa, and entered the home mission work. He moved from there to Axtell, Kansas, in 1882, and to Clifton in 1888. From Clifton he came to Effingham in 1890 and moved from here to Oklahoma in '93, where he had been engaged in the same work up to within two weeks of his death . . .
He died at his home at Sheriden, Oklahoma, Sunday Oct. 13th. A loving wife and six children, five boys and one girl, are left to mourn his loss . . .
He entered the service in 1861, when the 90 day call came, in the 118th Ohio infantry. When his time expired he enlisted in the 2nd Cavalry for three years. he was wounded twice. The second wound was received in one of the battles of the Wilderness, and was the cause of his death.
Six government monuments have recently been received in Atchison county to mark the graves of ex-union soldiers. Five of them were place in the Effingham cemetery to mark the graves of B. F. Wallack, H. P. Wilson, Capt. J. E. Logan, William Ramsey, and M. C. Adams. and the sixth placed in Reece cemetery to mark the grave of Bluford Rhodes. Atchison Daily Champion, 14 Nov 1901, Thu., Page 1.
Excerpted from the obituary of Thalia Willson
The New Leaf – Effingham, Kansas – 02 Sep 1921, Fri – Page 2
In 1873 Hugh P. Wilson was united in marriage to Thalia Hine. He was at the time completing his education which was interrupted by his service as a soldier in the Civil War. In 1876 Mr. and Mrs. Wilson entered the home mission field and devoted 19 years to Pioneer work in the development of the Presbyterian church in settlements in the prairies of Iowa and Kansas. In 1893, when the territory of Oklahoma was opened they carried their work into this field and at the time of Mr. Wilson’s death in 1895, they were engaged in establishing churches for the growing communities. After Rev. Wilson’s death, Mrs. Wilson returned to Effingham where she resided until she sold her home and returned to Poland, Ohio, in 1908 to care for her aged mother. They are survived by six children: Chalmers, of Enid, Okla.; Homer, Curt and Oliver Los Angeles, Calif.; Dudley, Girard, Ohio, and Mrs. Geo. Zellers, Youngston, Ohio.
From the History of the First Presbyterian church of Effingham.
"In 1884 F. E. Sheldon was succeeded by Rev. D. McLeod, and him by Rev. Dewey Jones, in 1885. Rev. J. S. Hunter came on the field in 1887, folllowed by Rev. Hugh P. Wilson, who was installed as Pastor June 18, 1891."