WILSON Family Reunion - 1921 (2nd article)

WILSON, BOYD, HURST, STOKES, ARMSTRONG, BROWN

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 4/10/2006 at 15:20:44

"The Fairfield Weekly Ledger-Journal"
June 23, 1921
Page 1, Column 6

Reunion of Descendants of Hugh and Eliza BOYD WILSON at Libertyville June 21. Brothers and sisters: Mrs. Margaret HURST, Robert Alexander WILSON, William Dempsey WILSON, Mrs. Caroline STOKES and Mrs. Elvira Jane ARMSTRONG....

Hugh WILSON, in company with his brother in law Robert BROWN, left Fayette Co. (Pa.) Mar. 17, 1839, and came to Iowa on horseback... His father, Alexander WILSON, with the other members of the family, came by boat down the Ohio and up the Mississippi to Keokuk....

[Also posted to the Lee County Documents board]

*Transcribed for genealogy purposes; I have no relation to the person(s).