Carroll-Pulaski County IN Archives Biographies.....Wilson, Smith 1835 - 
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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

SMITH WILSON.

   Smith Wilson, a well-to-do retired farmer of Bringhurst, Monroe township,
Carroll county, Indiana, was born in Miami county, Ohio, on October 4, 1835, the
son of John and Mary (Smith) Wilson.

   Mr. Wilson's parents were both born near Gallipolis, Gallia county, Ohio.
They were farmers by occupation. John Wilson moved to Pulaski county, Indiana,
in 1851, and purchased eighty acres of land in Beaver Creek township. He
returned to Ohio and a year later brought his family with him to Indiana. They
settled in Pulaski county, where his wife, the mother of Smith Wilson, who has
been sickly, recovered her health in the timber land. After clearing the farm in
Pulaski county and living there for a few years, the Wilson family came to
Carroll county, where John Wilson rented land in Monroe and Democrat township.
He died in his eighty-ninth year and his wife in her seventy-seventh year. They
had eleven children, four of whom are now living. Sarah Jane is deceased; Pierce
is deceased; Eliza R. was a soldier in the One Hundred Fiftieth Regiment,
Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and is deceased; Joseph, a soldier in the One
Hundred Fiftieth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, is deceased; Peter is
deceased; Matilda M. is the wife of James Harvey Hutcher, of Arkansas; Martha,
the widow of Isaac Wayts had two children, William Andrew and John Morrison,
both deceased, and her husband, who served three years in the Civil War as a
member of Company A, Seventy-second Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, died
in 1913; Mary is the widow of Phil Kingrey; John is deceased; and two others. 

   Having lived at home until the outbreak of the Civil War, Smith Wilson
enlisted in the One Hundred and Fiftieth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry
and served until the close of the war. Upon coming back home he worked at odd
jobs until the spring of 1866, when he purchased fifty acres of land in Monroe
township, one mile southeast of Bringhurst The Wilsons lived upon this farm from
1866 until July, 1913, when they removed to Bringhurst.

   Smith Wilson is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic at Delphi. He is a
Republican in politics and from 1900 to 1902 served as supervisor in Monroe
township. As a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows he represented the
local lodge at the grand lodge at Indianapolis many years ago.


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BIOGRAPHICAL SECTION
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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


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