Emily Devine Wilson

1865–1942

Mrs. J. G. Wilson

Introduction

Biography

Emily was the daugh­ter of John De­vine and Sar­ah Ann Lees, and wife of Me­tho­dist min­is­ter John G. Wil­son. Her fa­ther was from Ire­land, and her mo­ther and husband from Eng­land. Note: Some sourc­es give her fa­ther’s name as Di­vine, but his tomb­stone clear­ly shows De­vine.

Her hus­band was Dis­trict Su­per­in­tend­ent of the Me­tho­dist Phi­la­del­phia Con­fer­ence, and pas­tor of the Whar­ton Me­mor­ial Me­tho­dist Church in Phi­la­del­phia.

The cou­ple had no child­ren, and John died in 1933. In 1935 and 1940, Emi­ly was liv­ing in the Me­tho­dist Epis­co­pal Home for the Aged in Phi­la­del­phia.