Teenager killed in notorious bank robbery remembered 111 years after his death

SEDRO-WOOLLEY, Wash. — As JoEllen Kesti looks over the 133-year-old Union Cemetery in Sedro-Wooley, she is haunted, but in a good way.

“I feel at peace here,” Kesti said. “You feel like you know them.”

One of those she has come to know is Melvin Wilson.

“He was just a precious little angel,” Kesti said. 

Wilson was just 13 years old when he was killed by a stray bullet during a notorious bank robbery at Sedro-Woolley’s First National Bank in October 1914.

“He was in the wrong place at the wrong time,” Kesti said.

Kesti said the

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