Wayne County IN Archives Biographies.....Wilson, Oliver February 3, 1839 - 
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Author: History of Wayne County, Indiana;Volume II, (1884)

Green Township
p. 489 & 490

Oliver Wilson, eldest son of John and Hannah (Bond) Wilson, was born Feb. 3, 
1839, in Clay Township, Wayne County, Ind. He was reared a farmer and educated 
at the country schools until he was thirteen years of age, when his father 
died, after which he helped maintain the family until he was twenty-two years 
of age. He then farmed a few years on rented lands in Clay Township. He 
purchased the heirs', his brothers and sisters, interest in lands in Hamilton 
County Ind., and soon after sold to the younger heirs, and purchased a farm in 
Clay Township, which he sold after a few years, and in 1869 purchased the farm 
of 130 acres, where he has since been engaged in agricultural pursuits. March 
14, 1861, he was married to Keziah C., daughter of Perry and Sallie Hurst, of 
Wayne County. Two children were born to this union, both now deceased. Mrs. 
Wilson died in 1864, and Mr. Wilson was again married, Sept. 25, 1873, to 
Lydia D. (Dukes) Holt. They have three children---Lula, Omer, and a twin to 
Omer died unnamed. Mr. Wilson, politically, is a Republican. His grandfather, 
Samuel Wilson, came from Guilford County, N. C., and was one of the first 
settlers of Wayne County. Our subject's parents were reared and married in 
Wayne County, and had eight children born to them, of whom four are living---
Oliver, Lidia, Adaline and James A. Those deceased are---Martha, Phoebe, Jesse 
and Eliza. The father died at the age of thirty-six years, but the mother 
still survives, in her sixty-sixth year. They were members of the Society of 
Hicksite Friends.


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