Name: Wisby, Cecelia Grace (Stiggins)
Burial Date: 1955, 04/18
Age at Death: 68
Plot Location: 869 B
Notes:  Divorced wife of Elmer Reno Wisby

Cecelia Grace Stiggins Wisby

Birth: Feb. 17, 1887Death: Apr. 18, 1955

Family links:
Spouse:
Elmer Reno Wisby (1887 – 1965)*

*Calculated relationship

Note: Divorced wife of Elmer Reno Wisby

Burial:
Sterling Cemetery
Sterling
Rice County
Kansas, USA
Plot: 869 B
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Record added: Jun 23, 2009
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Name: Wirshing, William Blank
Burial Date: 1932, 01/27
Age at Death: 80
Plot Location: 150 G/H
Notes: Husband of Caroline(Evans)

Died in McAlaster, OK

William Blank Wirshing was born on April 1, 1851, in Pennsylvania. He married Caroline Evans on May 13, 1879. They had five children in 14 years. He died on January 26, 1932, in McAlester, Oklahoma, at the age of 80, and was buried in Sterling, Kansas.

Birth: 1852 Death: Jan. 27, 1932

Family links:
Parents:
Elizabeth Wirshing (1810 – 1896)

Spouse:
Caroline Evans Wirshing (1854 – 1929)

Children:
Dora Wirshing (1882 – 1884)*

*Calculated relationship

Note: h/Caroline (Evans) Burial:
Sterling Cemetery
Sterling
Rice County
Kansas, USA
Plot: 150 G/H
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Name: Wirshing, Elizabeth S (Blank)
Burial Date: 1896, 04/
Age at Death: 86
Plot Location: 150 E/F

Wife of Felix Wirshing      Born-1808, Lower Merion, Montgomery, Pennsylvania.  Died in Richmond, Virginia where daughter, Sarah Ann (Wirshing) Hutcheson lived.

Notes: Mother of William Blank Wirshing

Mrs. Elizabeth (Blank) Wirshing was born in 1810 in Lower Marion, Montgomery Co,  Pennsylvania.  She died in 1896 in Richmond, VA while visiting her daughter, having lived a long life of 86 years.

Birth: 1810 Death: 1896 Family links: Children: William Blank Wirshing (1852 – 1932)* *Calculated relationship Note: m/William Blank Wirshing Burial: Sterling Cemetery Sterling Rice County Kansas, USA Plot: 150 E/F Created by: Phillip H. Pitzer Record added: Jun 23, 2009 Find A Grave Memorial# 38651347

Name: Wirshing, Dora
Burial Date: 1884, 05/04
Age at Death: 2
Plot Location: 150 D
Notes: Daughter of William Herbert & Caroline(Evans)

Birth:	1882
Death:	May 4, 1884
Family links: Parents: William Herbert Wirshing (1851 – 1932) Caroline Evans Wirshing (1854 – 1929)
Burial: Sterling Cemetery Sterling Rice County Kansas, USA Plot: 150 D
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Name: Wirshing, Caroline (Evans)
Burial Date: 1929, 01/28
Age at Death: 75
Plot Location: 150 A/B
Notes: Wife of William Blank Wirshing

Caroline Evans was born on July 29, 1853, in Pennsylvania, her father, John, was 29 and her mother, Sarah, was 27. She married William Blank Wirshing on May 13, 1879. They had five children in 14 years. She died on January 31, 1929, at the age of 75.

Birth:	July 28, 1853
Death:	Jan. 31, 1929
Family links: Spouse: William Herbert Wirshing (1852 – 1932)* Children: Dora Wirshing (1882 – 1884)* *Calculated relationship Note: w/William Herbert
Burial: Sterling Cemetery Sterling Rice County Kansas, USA Plot: 150 A/B
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Name: Wiltsie, Josiah
Burial Date: 1880, 07/15
Age at Death: 41
Plot Location: PF
Notes: Husband of Susan Margaret (Mote)

Pvt, Co.A, 55th Ohio Inf.   War: Civil War

2021 Memorial Stones for 5 Civil War Veterans buried in unmarked graves in Potter’s Field.

Birth: July 6, 1838  Death: Feb. 3, 1880 Nickerson, Reno Co, Kansas
age 41, husband of Susan Margaret (Mote)

Burial:
Sterling Cemetery
Sterling
Rice County
Kansas, USA
Plot: Potters Field
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Name: Wilt, Malin Alexander
Burial Date: 1970, 03/11
Age at Death: 88
Plot Location: 839 G
Notes: Husband of Gertrude Mrytle (Welty)

Death:	Mar. 1970
age 88 Son of Levi Wilt and Emaline (Tooney) Family links: Spouse: Gertrude Myrtle Welty Wilt (1886 – 1976)* *Calculated relationship
Burial: Sterling Cemetery Sterling Rice County Kansas, USA Plot: 839 G
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Name: Wilt, Levi S
Burial Date: 1915, 06/09
Age at Death: 72
Plot Location: 555 C
Notes: Husband of Emmaline (Toomey)

149th PA Reg.

War: Civil War

Complete Obituary STERLING BULLETIN  06/17/1928

OLD SOLDIER DEAD

Levi S. Wilt died at an early morning hour Tuesday, June 8th, at the home on north Fifth street. He with his wife had been a retired farmer about six years. Three children live in the county. A daughter, Mrs. Wm. Gross is east of town, while one son is near Nickerson and another in the vicinity of Abbyville. Deceased was a creeping paralysis patient, being bedfast about four months. He had reached the age of 72 years 4 months and 7 days, having been born in Pennsylvania where early life was spent. He was a member of the 149th Pennsylvania regiment.  Rev. Mrs. Wilcox, pastor of the Friends church, conducted funeral services at the home Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 and the G.A.R., a short service at the grave in Cottonwood cemetery.

Veteran of: Civil War
In 1860, he was a laborer living with and/or working for farmer Frederick Hake in Manchester Township, York County, Pennsylvania. He stood 5′ 6″ tall and had auburn hair and gray eyes.

A Civil War veteran, he was drafted and mustered into federal service at Carlisle August 12, 1863 as a private with a detachment of the 149th Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged by general order May 5, 1865.

He married Emmaline Toomey September 21, 1871, in York and fathered Nathan Albert (b. 1871), Effie Mary (b. 08/27/75), Harry Oscar (b. 04/17/76), George Edmund (b. 01/12/75), and Mahlon Alexander (b. 02/28/82). In 1890, lived in or near Davidsburg, Dover Township, York County, but by 1893 had relocated to Rice County, Kansas.

Name: Wilt, Harry Oscar
Burial Date: 1954, 01/23
Age at Death: 77
Plot Location: 609 D
Notes: husband of Edna J (Clement)

Birth: 17 April 1876
Pennsylvania

Death: Jan.19, 1954 Stanislaus County, CA
age 77

Family links:
Spouse:
Edna J Clement Wilt (1883 – 1925)*

*Calculated relationship
Burial:
Sterling Cemetery
Sterling
Rice County
Kansas, USA
Plot: 609 D
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Name: Wilt, Gertrude Myrtle (Welty)
Burial Date: 1976, 10/15
Age at Death: 90
Plot Location: 839 E
Notes: wife of Malin Alexander Wilt

Birth:	1886
Death:	Oct. 1976
age 90Family links: Spouse: Malin Alexander Wilt (1882 – 1970)
Burial: Sterling Cemetery Sterling Rice County Kansas, USA Plot: 839 E
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Name:  Wilt, Emmaline (Toomey)
Burial Date:  1938, 01/10
Age at Death: 84
Plot Location: 555 A
Notes: wife of Levi S

Name Emmaline Wilt

Maiden Name  Toomey

Death Date  Jan 1938

Cemetery  Sterling Cemetery

Burial or Cremation Place Sterling, Rice County, Kansas, United States of America

Has Bio? Y

Spouse Levi S Wilt

Daughter :  Effie May Gross

Emmaline received a small U.S. Civil War pension. As an older widow Emmaline life with various of her children in Colorado and Hutchinson, KS.

Name: Wilt, Edna J (Clement)
Burial Date: 1925, 05/11
Age at Death: 41
Plot Location: 609 B
Notes: wife of Harry Oscar

Birth: 1883 Enterprise, Indiana, USA Death: May 8, 1925 Reno County, Kansas age 41Family links: Parents: John Pierce Clement (1852 – 1933) Sarepta McHenry Clement (1852 – 1926) Spouse: Harry Oscar Wilt (1925 – 1954) Children: Woodrow W. Wilt (1913 – 2014)* Siblings: Ella May Clement Burge (1876 – 1912)* Fannie E Clement Williams (1878 – 1930)* Edna J Clement Wilt (1885 – 1925) *Calculated relationship Burial: Sterling Cemetery Sterling Rice County Kansas, USA Plot: 609 B Edit Virtual Cemetery info [?] Created by: Lawcas Record added: May 07, 2013 Find A Grave Memorial# 110138134

Name: Wilson, William Israel
Burial Date: 1905, 09/04
Age at Death: 23
Plot Location: 365 C/D
Notes: son of Henry Stephen, Sr & Sarah Jane (Beale)

brother of Henry Stephen Wilson, Jr.

Birth: 1882 Death: 1905 age 23, son of Henry Stephen, Sr & Sarah Jane (Beale) Burial: Sterling Cemetery Sterling Rice County Kansas, USA Plot: 365 C/D Edit Virtual Cemetery info [?] Created by: Lawcas Record added: May 07, 2013 Find A Grave Memorial# 110138037

Birth:	1882 Burlingame, KS
Death:	1905  Cripple Creek, Colo
age 23, son of Henry Stephen, Sr & Sarah Jane (Beale)
Burial: Sterling Cemetery Sterling Rice County Kansas, USA Plot: 365 C/D
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Name: Wilson, Wesley Harvey
Burial Date: 1930, 08/16
Age at Death: 44
Plot Location: 005 L
Notes: 2nd husband of Mary Hazel(Nearhood)Wilson Curless

Worked as a teamster, died of a gunshot

Mary Hazel Curless was born in 1900 to Harvey Austin and Laura Emma (Livingston) Nearhood.
She was married to Daniel Baughman, Wesley Wilson, John Aldredge, and Charles Curless.

Birth: Sept 1, 1885 Death: Aug. 14, 1930 age 44, husband of Hazel(Nearhood) Burial: Sterling Cemetery Sterling Rice County Kansas, USA Plot: 005 L Edit Virtual Cemetery info [?] Created by: Lawcas Record added: May 07, 2013 Find A Grave Memorial# 110137995

Name: Wilson, Sarah Jane (Beale)
Burial Date: 1912, 08/10
Age at Death: 72
Plot Location: 365 E/F
Notes: wife of Henery Stephen, Sr.

From obituary Sterling Kansas Bulletin, 26 Sep 1912.

A portion of an obituary written by a son of Mrs. Stephen gleaned from the Sterling Bulletin–

Only child of John and Mary Beale was born in Manchester, England, Oct. 14, 1839. Died at the home of her elder daughter and husband, Dr. and Mrs. A. C. Potter, Hutchinson, KS, August 8th, 1912.

Christened in the Episcopal Church, on Easter Sunday, March 31, 1860 she married Henery Stephen Wilson in Wigan, England.

10 children were born to them, 2 died in infancy, John Richard at the age of 47, and William Israel at the age of 23 – being the eldest and youngest respectively.   ..temperance work, and was an inspiration to everyone to live a better life.

She was the grandmother of eleven children, and great-grandmother of one. For many years she spent her winters in the South, and the summer of her Golden wedding year, she, with her husband, celebrated their Golden wedding in the church in which they were married.

She was a member of Sterling chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star.

Her husband and all her children, except one son, Edmund, with whom it was impossible to communicate were at her bedside when the end came. The funeral service was conducted at the home of Dr. and Mrs. A.C. Potter, Hutchinson by Dr. C. B. Sargent, of the Episcopal church at that place, who also read the service of burial, assisted by Rev. O. W. Lippincott, of Alden and she was laid to rest beside her two sons in Cottonwood Cemetery, Sterling, Kansas, on the 10th day of August 1912.

Birth:	Oct. 14, 1839
Death	Aug. 8,  1912
age 72
Burial: Sterling Cemetery Sterling Rice County Kansas, USA Plot: 365 E/F
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