Mrs. Fannie Wilbur passed away on Tuesday, April 23, at 6 p.m., at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W. A. Emery. The remains will be taken to the old home at South Sioux City tomorrow morning for interment. Brief services will be held at the house with Rev’ds E. J. Nickerson and E. J. T. Connoly in charge. An effort to get into communication with a son has been the cause of the delay in the funeral arrangements. He went to New York recently to bid good-bye to his sons who are in the national Army and who expect to go to France shortly. Up to yesterday he had not been located. Mrs. Wilbur was born in Tennessee on December 29, 1839 and reached the age of 78 years. For 61 years she had lived on the old homestead which now includes a part of South Sioux City, and which she still held at the time of her death. She was the first woman to come up the Missouri and land in what is now DakCounty. There are many incidents connected with her life’s activities which made her a remarkable woman.—Norfolk Press. The deceased was the mother of Miss Fannie Wilbur, a teach in the Blair city schools.

~~~Census records have her first name spelled Fanny~~~

Obituary courtesy of the Washingtonota County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clipping on file at the Blair Public Library.