Birth:25 June 18492922 -- Westbrook Farm, Mount Barker, South Australia, Australia Death:25 July 1911 (Age 62) -- Campbelltown, South Australia, Australia
Note: Her youngest daughter, Mabel, had died of T.B. in February of the same year and in 1894 two more of her children died of the same disease, Ada aged 17 and Beatrice aged 13.
Publication: Adelaide, S.A. The Cyclopedia Co. (Alfred G. Selway), 1907-1909 Citation Details: Page 104
Note: "Edward Percival Wilson, Horticulturist, "Newton", Campbelltown, is a son of the late Mr. Allen Wilson, of "Westbrook", Mt. Barker, where the subject under review was born on June 24, 1849. His early education was obtained by means of private tuition, and after a finishing course at Hahndorf College he became associated in farming pursuits with his brothers at Monarto for five years. A subsequent position on a northern station was relinquished in favour of the Government service in the Survey Department, where he remained about eighteen months; but the call of the soil was too strong and in 1875 he began farming operations on his own account on the Murray Flats (Mannum in the Directory) continuing with very fair success for thirteen years. Mr. Wilson about this time became impressed with the possibilities of the dairying industry, and after some initial experience in this line at Woodchester, proceeded to Mount Gambier, to gain a thorough knowledge of the details of the business. The next seven or eight years were spent by Mr. Wilson in opening and managing various cheese and butter factories, the first being erected by him at Hindmarsh Island for Captain James Rankine. After very successfully establishing operations there, he joined a small company and built a large factory at Bald Hill, with the latest machinery, and all up-to-date appointments, the management of which was retained by Mr. Wilson for three years. He then erected and managed a factory at Port Elliot for the late Mr. W.A. Basham for twelve months, and finally, joining another company, founded the industry at Waterport, near Port Elliot where the close of a successful three year's management terminated his connection with the dairying trade. From 1896 to 1902 Mr. Wilson was engaged in the working of his mother's estate at Mt. Barker, where, by dint of hard work and good management, he achieved excellent results and looks back on this period, alone of the most successful of his life. He entered upon his present calling at Paradise in 1902, four years later removing to Hectorville, where he carried on for nine months. At the latter end of 1906 he sold out at a good profit, and in December of that year selected a very promising property at "Newton". near Magill, comprising 7 1/2 acres where he now resides. Mr. Wilson was one of the first District Councillors of the District of Mannum and held office for a term. He is a church warden of St. Martin's Church of England, Campbelltown and a trustee and synods man of the same church. He married in 1876 and has two sons and one daughter surviving "
This was published 1909 and only two years later Edward had died aged 62.
The surviving children were cared for by grandmother Ellen at New Westbrook until their increasing frailty caused the Pugh aunts to take over their care, they being younger and in better health than Ellen who had herself contracted the tuberculosis from which the children died.