♂James Harvey Wilkinson

James Harvey Wilkinson (14 August 1882 – 16 February 1924) was a merchant, and later a real estate, loan and insurance man, in Ravia, Oklahoma, who came to San Angelo, Texas, for his health and died there less than a year and a half later. He was the grand-uncle of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), the brother of her grandmother Mabel Wilkinson (1875–1954).

Early life

He was born at Friendsville, Wabash County, Illinois, a son of Robert Thomas Wilkinson (1850–1917) and Julia Esther Harvey (1857–1951), and grew up in Mount Carmel, where his father practised law. About 1896, at the age of thirteen, he joined the Presbyterian Church of Mount Carmel, the church in which his father served as a ruling elder. In 1900 the census found him, single, in his parents’ house in the town.

Ravia

In 1905 he moved to Ravia, in what was then Indian Territory^W and became part of Oklahoma in 1907. He went into general merchandise there in partnership with his father and his brother Robert Clyde, and the business ran for six years. After it he spent eleven years in real estate, loan and insurance.

On 5 June 1907, at Ravia, he married Nell Merrill (1889–1969), whose parents, C. E. Merrill and his wife, also lived at Ravia. They had three sons, William Merrill, James Harvey and Thomas.

San Angelo

A break in health brought him to San Angelo, Tom Green County, Texas, in October 1922. He died there on the afternoon of 16 February 1924, at the age of 41. The funeral was held on 19 February at the Harris Avenue Presbyterian Church, and he was buried in Fairmount Cemetery. The San Angelo Evening Standard, which carried his obituary, listed his widow and sons, his mother, his brother R. C. Wilkinson of San Antonio, and his sister, whom it named Mrs. S. W. Schnack of Mount Carmel, Illinois: Mabel, the wife of Dr. Sereno Watson Schneck.

Notes

Birth

The tree gives 14 August 1882 at Friendsville. The census of 1900 agrees on the month and year. The San Angelo obituary says he was born at Mount Carmel on 14 August 1883, a year later and in another town of the same county; the day and month agree. Age thirteen at his church joining falls about 1896 on either year.