Ed Pilcher Dies Suddenly

Ed Pilcher, a farmer living about two miles northeast of Blair died suddenly at his home on the evening of Saturday, February 9 of heart trouble.

Deceased was born on the home farm where he died and with the exception of a few years spent in Blair, had made this his home. He was born Feb. 2, 1874 and was thus just past fifty-five years of age at the time of his death.

He was educated at the Cuming City school and later in the Blair high school. After leaving school he continued farming and after the death of his father he took full charge of the farm which later he owned.

During the financial crash he was one of the unfortunate ones to lose his property but after the readjustment came, he made arrangements to purchase the farm and at his death was again quite comfortably situated and on the road to success.

He was married to Miss Louise Wilson of near Spiker on Sept. 2, 1896 and in this marriage, two of the oldest pioneer families of the county, the Tom Wilson and the E. C. Pilcher families both coming to the county before the Civil War.

Besides the wife and an aged mother who made her home with him, he leaves two brothers, Chas., of Omaha and Lloyd of Albion and three sisters, Mrs. Jennie Ballard and Mrs. Grace Hancock of Blair and Mrs. Dora Wilson of Hooper.

The services were held Tuesday afternoon at two o’clock from the Baptist church of which he was a member, with Rev Moran officiating and interment was made in the Blair cemetery.

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

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