I. W. WILSON

WILSON, RIGGLE

Posted By: Mona Sarratt Knight (email)
Date: 7/20/2009 at 18:38:16

Source: The History of Appanoose County, Iowa, Containing A History of the County, its Cities, Towns, etc., A Biographical Directory of Citizens, War Records of its Volunteers in the late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of the Northwest, History of Iowa, Map of Appanoose County, Constitution of the United States, Miscellaneous Matters, etc.; illustrated; Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878.

I. W. WILSON, farmer, Sec. 34; P.O. Livingston; born in Clark Co., Ohio, in 1816; removed to Henry Co., Iowa, in 1860; thence to this county in 1865 where he owns ninety acres of land, valued at $35 per acre. Married Miss Charlotte Riggle in 1837 she was born in Hamilton Co., Ohio, in 1819; they have ten children - B.F., Sarah L., Mary J., Jas A., G.W., Nancy A., Wm. M., Chas. H., Evin L., Amelia A. Mrs. Wilson is a member of the M.E. Church. Mr. Wilson has held the ofrfices of Township Trustee and Township Supervisor, and school offices; his son, B.F., enlisted in 1862 in the 1st Regt. of Iowa Engineers; participated in all its different battles, and was honorably discharged at the close of the wawr. Is now a resident of Nebraska.