OSCAR WILSON was the oldest child of Floyd Wilson and Louise Lubken. He was born on a farm northwest of Elgin in 1910. He had five brothers and sisters: Lloyd, 1911; Earl, 1914-1918; Dale, 1921; Viola, 1922; and Joyce, 1924. Selma Olson was the youngest child of Andrew Olson and Maud Strope. She was born in 1910 on the Olson homestead north of Stanton, Nebraska. Other family members were Merwin, Madge, Ruth and Ronald. The family moved to a farm northwest of Elgin in 1910. Oscar and Selma were married at Center, Nebraska in 1932 and began farming southwest of Elgin in 1933. They were parents of three children: Richard, 1934-1934; Bonnie, stillborn in 1936; and Mardelle in 1937. Mardelle was 11 months old when the family moved to a farm south of Clearwater, where they lived for 19 years. In 1951, they bought Selma’s parents farm, but never lived there. In 1957 they bought the Wilson family farm which was in the Wilson family for 100 years. Oscar’s grandparents, Henry and Maude Wilson bought it in 1887, his parents, bought it in 1928 and now Oscar and Selma in 1957. Oscar died in 1980. Selma moved to Neligh. Mardelle married Jack Blair of Elgin.
Source Unknown: Originally submitted for this website in July 2007