Judge B. Wilson

Cincinnati Daily Gazette May 19, 1879, p. 2

Special Dispatch to the Cincinnati Gazette

Greensburg, Ind., May 18

Judge B. Wilson died at his residence in this city, on Saturday evening, of paralysis, after a protracted and painful illness. The deceased was the oldest member of the bar of this city, both in years and in the practice of his profession. He was widely known in this State of an able attorney, and as a very genial, affable gentleman, and also for the strictness of his integrity and uprightness as a man. The bar of the city held a meeting at the Court House at 8 o'clock this morning, and appointed a committee, consisting of Gov. Cumback, Col. John S. Scobey, and Hon. Cortez Ewing, to draft appropriate resolutions and report the same in open court tomorrow. The funeral services will be held tomorrow at 2 p. m., under the direction of the orderof which he was a prominent member.