HOSEA WILSON

WILSON

Posted By: Jake Tornholm (email)
Date: 4/20/2020 at 13:36:30

HOSEA WILSON, a respected and prosperous farmer of section 35, Nodaway township (postoffice Brooks), was born April 1, 1818, in Champaign county, Ohio, the son of John Wilson, a native of Greenbrier county, Virginia. The latter was a son of John Wilson, Sr., who was born in county Tyrone, Ireland, came to this country and served in the Revolutionary war, suffering many indescribable hardships. The father of our subject married Miss Mary, daughter of David Wilson, of an old Virginia family and of Irish ancestry. He (John Wilson) moved with his family to
Ohio in 1815, and had to flee a couple of times for protection against the Indians. In his younger days he had learned the shoemaker’s trade, but was a farmer all his life, He died while on a trip to Kentucky, and his wife died in Macon county, Illinois. He was a Democrat, and in religion belonged to the Primitive Baptist Church. They reared two children, viz.: Euphemia, who died in
Decatur, Macon county, Illinois, and the subject whose name heads this sketch. The latter was reared on a farm. In the year 1888 the family moved to Boone county, Indiana, and in 1856 to Illinois. The year 1855 Mr. Wilson entered Government land here in Adams county, and intended to settle upon it; but various matters interfered, and finally the great war came on, and he did not arrive here until 1866, when he broke the first furrow on the land. He continued to
improve the farm until it was brought to its high state of perfection. His nine acres of 350 trees constitute a splendid orchard, and he has also an abundance of small fruits. He is a model farmer. In his political sympathies he is a Democrat, and in religion a member of the Christian Church, as well as his wife and children.

Mr. Wilson was married in Boone county, Indiana, in 1851, to Miss Massa Ann Greene,
who was born in Preble county, Ohio, a daughter of David Davis and Elizabeth (Sutton) Greene. The seven children are: David G., who is married and lives on the home farm; William Orus, residing in Omaha, Nebraska; Lewis Franklin, living in Iroquois county, Illinois; Mary Elizabeth, wife of Daniel McMillen, of Antelope county, Nebraska; Euphemia Emeline, wife of Roy Newhouse, of the same county, and Walter Scott and Anna, at home. One son, named Ulysses Grant, died at the age of five years.