SAMUEL WILSON
Samuel Wilson, one of the early settlers of Edna, came in 1856. He was born in Pennsylvania, in 1825, there was reared to manhood. He moved to West Virginia when a young man, and was there married to Elizabeth Sutton, a native of that State. In 1856, he came to Cass county, settled in Edna township, and in 1858 in Edna Grove. He enlisted in 1862, in company H, Twenty-third Iowa Infantry. He died in the service in 1863. His widow married John Erwin, who died in 1868, and then married Joshua Calvin, and now resides on the Erwin farm on section 30. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson had seven children---Mary, Sarah A., William, Emeline, Martha J. and Amanda.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pp. 753.
