Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-05-28
Morgar County

have said the Whites came from
Washington county, Pennsylvania.
Wilson's
In the year 1895 another family
severed the old home ties and with
team and wagon drove from Wash
ington county, Pennsylvania, to
Bristol township. Jas. Wilson
whose monument says died July 8,
1884, aged 40 years, and Sarah L.,
his wife, Oct. 8, 1878, aged 72 years.
| They settled on the farm now own
ed by NJ A. Mahon, buying the
| farm from Phillip p. Moore. The
| old house had stone in the foun-
| dation which bears the date 1927.
This stone is at the Walter Black
| ledge home. VIM. Wilson tore the
old house down and built a more
modern one before selling to Mr..
Mahon Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson were
| the parents of ten children, as fol-
lows: Jas. c., whose wife was Sarah
A. Tannehill, 1837-1S8S;we remem-
Der Mrs. Wilson died of cancer, and
that DR.. Mayfield the sherman or the
! he-woman, anyway the woman who
| posed as a man, and doctored can
Ger, doing a big business, dOctored
Wilson; McCracken, March 8, 1888
| Sept z, 1905; Kessiah Scott, May
4, 1S36-Jan. Z, 1905; Samuel, born
Feb. 3, 1927, died Oct. 21, 1921,
whose wife Charlotte Ross born
Aug. "a, 1929, died March 9, 1912;
John and Lee married sisters whose
name was Hedge; Joseph and Ander.
son not married; William, Martha
Byers, Sarah L. Rowland, wife of
Jas. Rowland, and an infant daugh-
ter.
Margaret Pickenpaugh, Dec. 13,
| 1817March 28, 1903, came with the
Wilson's and lived with them two
years. The Wilson's were good farm
ers on some of the best farm and
! grazing land in the county. We
! have only given dates on the ones
buried here. The story is told that
Jas. c. who was called Caul hauled
one load of wool to the VIM. Cool
store, and took home $1,000, and
one pound of tea valued at $3.50,
which was a premium. The wool
! was not in sacks, but loose in the
bed. Of course it was big wagon
| bed-we believe our informant call
ed it an English wagon The Will
sons are now in the fifth generation
in Bristol township.
Samuel and Charlotte were the
parents of seven children-six
daughters, Lavina, Louise, Deborah,
Dicie, Allie and j. W., living, and
Ida, wife of H. D. Lawrence, de-
! ceased OF j. Cs family, A. B..
c. c., John, and Sadie, wife of 2. O..
Tilden, live in Bristol. Jennie, wild
ow of Robert Henderson, Rural
Dale; James we believe is locat-
ed in California. The latter is a
| caretaker of race horses. William S
family consisted of two daughters
Celia, wife of Walter Blackledge of
with the parents is buried in Mt.
Carmel; McCracken, Ross and Molie
wife of VIM. Huffman, McConnnels-
vile; Griffith, March 8, 1858-May
27, 1871; Melissa, Nov. Is, 1856
Dec. Is, 1860. Ross, as we have
said, was the son of McCracken and
Kessiah Scott Wilson, was born
1850 and died 1922 He was twice
married His first wife Mary whose
maiden name was Osborne, died
March IA, 1888, aged % years. To
this union two children were born.
Fauna. wife of C. n Hooper, Nc
Connelsville, and Freddie, who
died Jan. is, 1899, aged nine
months, / 6 days. His second wife,
Ida Hamilton. and one daughter,
Della, wife of f. II. Little, Meigs,
survive.
We spoke Of the men wearing
boards. While we never remember
OF seeing some of the Wilson men,
the ones we knew wore full boards i
and when we knew them they were
very White-which made us think |
they were old. They were big of |
stature. We might as we'll stop |
here to tell you that the purpose of |
this story is not to tell of the won
derful deeds of some of the folks |
and the failures of others. We |
might not agree as to what a sue
cessful life means or meant, in I
their day. While the works Of |
some of these are more noticeable in
this locality, we know not but that
some one who might be placed low
in the scale if we were sorting them.
may have been the incentive-the
guiding hand that helped the ones
who reached the top, to attain that
place. Get us right--they were
good folks, and the ground that
covers their ashes, looks the same,
ana pleasant memories of your
solks and our folks come to you
and us.
ROSS Wilson was born in Bristol
oWnship and lived here until the
asst few years of his life, when he
md Mrs. Wilson moved to McCon-