RITES FOR WATSON TYSON HELD MONDAY

Member Of Pioneer Family Succumbs After Years Of Illness

RESIDENT OF COUNTY SINCE 1873

Watson Tyson passed away Saturday morning, July 8th, at his home on West Colfax Street after years of illness. The immediate cause of his death was a stroke from which he failed to rally.

Deceased was a native of this county, having been born at the home farm north of town on March 30, 1873. He was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Watson Tyson, pioneers who settled here in 1865.

On January 8th, 1898, he was married to Nellie Morrill and to them two sons were born, Harry of Blair and Kenneth of Omaha. Besides the wife and two sons, he leaves one brother, Peter M. Tyson and one sister, Mrs. Eliza Warrick, both of Blair and three grandchildren, Paul, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Tyson and Barbara Ann and Charles Watson, children of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Tyson.

The funeral services were held Monday afternoon at 2 o’clock from the Methodist church with Rev. A. W. Clarke of the Methodist church at Arlington officiating, and interment was made in the Blair cemetery.