U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Wilson, John Marshall (1827-1916) ------------------------------------------------------------------- History of Ritchie County by Minnie Kendall Lowther Wheeling News Litho. Co., Wheeling W.Va., 1911 Pages 524-525 John Marshall Wilson, brother of L. P., is one of the oldest as well as one of the most prominent citizens of the town. He stepped upon the "battle-field of life" on September 16, 1827, and at the age of twenty-four years claimed Miss Rebecca Clayton, daughter of Elijah Clayton, as his bride; and for almost sixty years he has been a thrifty farmer of the Pennsboro vicinity, he having resided on the homestead now owned by his son, Alpheus, and on the McDougal farm before removing to the out-skirts of the town, and he is a large landowner. His children, all of whom grew to the years of maturity and married, were twelve in number; Sherman, Quincy A., and Josephine (Mrs. Howard Broadwater) have all passed on. Lehman, William, Alpheus, Ben F., Lincoln, John, Hooper, Creed, and Ingaby, who is Mrs. John McDougal, all belong to this part of the county, and are all the heads of intelligent families. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Register of Deaths, Ritchie County, WV (Page 218) FULL-NAME: J. M. Wilson, Sr. AGE-AT-DEATH: 87y-7m DEATH-DATE: April 16, 1916 DEATH-PLACE: Pennsboro MARITAL-STATUS: Married OCCUPATION: Farmer CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Carcinoma of Lip ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Ritchie County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/ritchie/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------