Died 13 March 1927

Burial in Blair Cemetery

Published in Enterprise on 17 March 1927

The people of Washington and especially those in the vicinity of the Sutherland and Summers school districts will be grieved to note the death of Mrs. Wm. Charlott, who for years, resided on the farm now occupied by Mr. Wallace Charlott.

Susan Ellen Wilson was born at Wiscoe Hill, England, Oct. 28, 1848. When she was two years old her parents, with their family, embarked in a sailing vessel for America, arriving at Middletown, Connecticut, in 1851. Later they settled in Clay County, Illinois, near Edgewood. The mother died when Susan was still a child, and she and her sister, Eliza (Mrs. Solomon Barton) took upon their young shoulders the household duties the mother had relinquished.

It was at the home in Clay County, Illinois, where Susan Ellen was married to William Charlott, December 18, 1874. This union was blessed with five children, one son having died in infancy and one daughter, Agnes, having departed this life at the age of 17 years, 7 months.

In 1877, Wm. Charlott brought his family to Washington county, Nebraska, farming as a tenant for five years, and then in 1882 buying the farm on the Papio which was the family home until Wm. Charlott's death in 1901, and which has been farmed since then by the son, Wallace.

Mrs. Charlott was christened in infancy in the Church of England, and joined the Methodist Episcopal church at the Summer School house on the Papio, in 1882.

It was in Enid, Oklahoma, where her daughter, Bertha and son, William reside, that death found her, March 13, 1927, her age being 78 years, 4 months, 14 days.

Surviving her are her daughter, Mrs. l. A. Burns, and son Wm., of Enid, Oklahoma, and son, Wallace of Washington county, Nebr.; her sisters, Mrs. Solomon Barton of Blair and Mrs. Henrietta Voestie of Laclead, Illinois; her brothers, William and Robert Wilson of Blair; one half-sister, Mrs. Emma Sperling and two half-brothers, Frank and Charles Wilson of Edgewood, Illinois.

Funeral services were held at the M.E. church in this city yesterday, Wednesday, March 16 at 2:30 p.m., with Rev. Bader officiating and interment was made in the Blair Cemetery.

~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~