of Darke County, Ohio · from Pennsylvania · documented from the public record
The family in the record
Thomas Wilson 1803 – 1877
Thomas Wilson⚭ Elizabeth Leas
childrenLydia Wilson · William M. Wilson · John L. Wilson · Eli Wilson · Theodore Wilson · F. J. Wilson · Augustus N. Wilson · Jane Wilson
Source: History of Darke County, Ohio
Their story
What the record says
Born October 14, 1803, died December 21, 1877.
Buried in the cemetery at Lewisburg, Ohio.
Reared in the home of his brother-in-law Abner Hibbs.
Learned the hatter's trade in Philadelphia.
Came to Ohio between ~1820 and 1825, walking from Philadelphia to his brother Eli's home in Zanesville, Ohio.
Piloted a flatboat of merchandise from Cincinnati to New Orleans.
Settled near West Sonora, Preble county, Ohio, where he taught school and became a justice of the peace.
Father of eight children.
His own father (a carpenter of Bucks county, PA) died from a fall off a building he was working on in Philadelphia.
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