Carroll County IN Archives Biographies.....Wilson, Isaac (Sr.) 
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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

ISAAC WILSON, SR.

   Isaac Wilson, Sr., was born in Virginia and came to Carroll county, Indiana,
in 1830, and located on a farm east of Delphi about two miles. He died in the
year 1846, leaving his wife, Rachael, and eleven children, namely: Elizabeth,
Hester, C. M. D., Charles, Mary Ann, Cynthia D., John D., Isaac, James H.,
Martha J. and Eliza.

   Hester Wilson died unmarried in 1850. C. M. D. Wilson died unmarried in 1857.
Rachael Wilson, widow of Isaac Wilson, died about the year 1858. Cynthia Wilson
married a Mr. Miller, who died about i860. Martha J. Wilson, widow1 of H. M.
Wright, married Isaac Farneman, who died on December 9, 1909. Charles Y. Wilson
died on July 3, 1884. James H. Wilson died unmarried, March 25, 1908. Elizabeth
Wilson married a Mr. McColloch, who died since the death of her father. Mary Ann
Wilson married Sylvester Berry, who died in Oregon in 1908. Isaac Wilson died in
White county, Indiana, about twenty-five years ago. Eliza Wilson married S.
Freshour, who died about twenty years ago. John D. Wilson died in Delphi,
November 16, 1909. He was the last surviving member of the family. C. M. D.
Wilson was treasurer of Carroll county for two terms, from 1850 to 1854. For
more than fifty years this family held the estate descending to them from their
father as tenants in common, increasing their possessions many thousands of
dollars for a period of fifty years.


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HISTORY OF CARROLL COUNTY INDIANA

ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS
BY
JOHN C ODELL
With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and
Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families

ILLUSTRATED
1916
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc.
Indianapolis, Indiana

CHAPTER IX.
BRIEF BIOGRAPHIES OF DECEASED PIONEERS OF CARROLL COUNTY.


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