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• Name: Hugh WILSON
• Sex: M
• Birth: 29 Aug 1802 in Washington Twp, Fayette Co, Pennsylvania ^b
• Death: 28 Oct 1893 in Unionville, Tuscola Co, Michigan ^d
• Burial: Demorest Cemetery, Akron Twp, Tuscola Co, Michigan ^u


Parents:

• Father:
  
• Andrew WILSON Birth: Feb 1777 in Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania Death: 11 Dec 1843 in North Shenango Twp, Crawford Co, Pennsylvania
Mother:

• Mary PATTON Birth: Abt 1776 in Fayette Co, Pennsylvania Death: 25 May 1854 in Crawford Co, Pennsylvania

Family:
Marriage:

• Ann COLLINS on 1829 .^m1
  
• Ann COLLINS Birth: 6 May 1810 in North Shenango Twp, Crawford Co, Pennsylvania Death: 25 Oct 1883

Children:

1. Sarah WILSON Birth: Crawford Co, Pennsylvania Death: Before 1883
2. Edward L WILSON Death: Before 1883
3. Cyrus WILSON Birth: 25 Sep 1829 in Crawford Co, Pennsylvania Death: 29 Jan 1902 in Clifton, Kansas
4. Matilda WILSON Birth: Abt 1833 in Crawford Co, Pennsylvania Death: Before 1886
5. Cordelia WILSON Birth: 24 Jun 1833 in Crawford Co, Pennsylvania Death: 1 May 1887
6. Andrew WILSON Birth: Abt 1836 in Crawford Co, Pennsylvania Death: 27 Jul 1890
7. Isaac W WILSON Birth: 26 Apr 1842 in Crawford Co, Pennsylvania Death: 21 Sep 1928
8. Samuel H WILSON Birth: 10 Oct 1845 in Crawford Co, Pennsylvania Death: Nov 1929
9. James Frank WILSON Birth: Jan 1848 in Crawford Co, Pennsylvania Death: 15 May 1924
10. Minerva WILSON Birth: 1849 in Crawford Co, Pennsylvania Death: After 1883

Bibliography

Sources for birth and parent Information

date:

[Ref: WilsonPM WILSON p68]

abt 1801 [Ref: Borman PATTON p9]

d. Oct 1893 age 91y2m [Ref: TuscolaCoMI Deaths v2p43],

place:

[Ref: WilsonPM WILSON p68]

Pennsylvania [Ref: TuscolaCoMI Deaths v2p43],

parents:

[Ref: Borman PATTON p9, WilsonPM WILSON p68],

father:

[Ref: CrawfordCoPA WillBook B-168]

Sources for death Information

date:

[Ref: TuscolaCoMI Deaths v2p43, WilsonPM WILSON p57],

place:

[Ref: TuscolaCoMI Deaths v2p43]

Sources for burial Information

place:

[Ref: WilsonPM WILSON p57]

Sources with Information about marriage to Ann COLLINS

date:

[Ref: WilsonPM WILSON p68],

names:

Hugh WILSON & Ann ___ [Ref: Borman PATTON p9],

child:

[Ref: Borman PATTON p9, Wilson MASON p97, WilsonPM WILSON p58, WilsonPM WILSON p63, WilsonPM WILSON p64, WilsonPM WILSON p65, WilsonPM WILSON p66]

Research Notes:
1833: one of first residents of Espyville, a blacksmith [Ref: Beers CrawfordCoPA p577]

1833: when Espyville founded, one of the town's first three merchants (others were his brothers-in-law, Jeremiah Alen and Isaac P Marshall [Ref: WilsonPM WILSON p58]

blacksmith, resided in N Shenango Twp, Crawford Co, PA [Ref: Borman PATTON p9]

1843: received $20 in will of father [Ref: CrawfordCoPA WillBook B-168]

1850's: gave up liquor and joined Methodist Church [Ref: WilsonPM WILSON p58]

Jun 1855: moved family to Tuscola Co, MI. The section he chose was covered with a heavy growth of hardwood forest. His reason for selecting such a spot was that land that would not grow trees was not the kind of land he wanted for farming. So he passed up prairie lands of Illinois, which were among the most fertile regions in the world, because there were no big trees [Ref: WilsonPM WILSON p58]

attended founding meeting of Geneva Township; elected a justice [Ref: WilsonPM WILSON p58]

died of old age, widower, occupation farmer [Ref: TuscolaCoMI Deaths v2p43]



Pedigree of Hugh WILSON
                   /-----Thomas WILSON
          /-----Hugh WILSON
         |         \-----Eleanor (WILSON)
 /-----Andrew WILSON
|         \-----Isabella McKEEVER
Hugh WILSON
|         /-----Joseph PATTON
 \-----Mary PATTON
          \-----Sarah WEIR



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