Bertha Bell WILLSON
1857 - 1920 (63 years)-
Name Bertha Bell WILLSON Born 7 Apr 1857 Grand Traverse Co., Michigan 
- Alt Loc: Saginaw Co., MI. Ref: Death Certificate.
Gender Female Died 17 Sep 1920 Chatham, Harwich Twp., Kent Co., Ontario - Aged 73y 5m 19d. Locomoter Ataxia, 2 years or more. Gradual Exhaustion.
Buried Maple Leaf Cemetery - Death reported by her sister, Mrs. Albert {Lizzie] Uphan, Munroe, Michigan.
Person ID I534 John Willson, Piscataway, NJ and Ontario Family Tree Last Modified 1 Jan 2018
Father Joseph William WILLSON, .iii
b. 5 Nov 1830, Willowdale (Toronto), York Twp., Ontario
d. 14 Jul 1911, Wheatlely, Dorchester Twp., Elgin Co., Ontario (Age 80 years) Mother Amanda Fitzgallen BELL
b. 9 Mar 1831, Morpeth, Kent Co., Ontario
d. 1889, Wheatlely, Dorchester Twp., Elgin Co., Ontario (Age 57 years) Married 16 Oct 1854 Wayne County, Michigan Family ID F64 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - . Two sisters died of the same cause of death:
First, Ada M. Willson Robinson died 23 Mar., 1920
and on 17 Sep 1920 her sister Bertha Bell Willson died.
Both deaths were reported by their sister Mrs. Elizabeth Willson Uphan, Munroe, Michigan.
Dr. James H Duncan, 274 King St. W., Chatham, Ontario.
. Locomotor ataxia is the inability to precisely control one's own bodily movements. Persons afflicted with this disease may walk in a jerky, up-and-down kind of rhythmical but non-fluid manner. They will not know where their arms & legs are without looking, but can, for instance, feel & locate a hot object placed against their feet. It is often a symptom of tabes dorsalis, which is a key finding in tertiary syphilis.
It is caused by degeneration of the posterior (dorsal) white column of the spinal cord.
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- . Two sisters died of the same cause of death: