Hickory County, Missouri Biographies--Pleasant H. Wilson

History Of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade And Barton Counties, 
Missouri, 1889.  Published by Goodspeed. Page 616

Pleasant H. Wilson, a successful tiller of the soil in Hickory County, Mo., 
was born in Miller County, Mo., October 22, 1842, and is a son of Isaac and 
Mary (Woods) Wilson, who were both born in Tennessee, the former in Knox County.  
They were married in that State, and there resided until 1834, when they came 
to Miller County, Mo., and there made their home for twenty years, then moving 
to Laclede County, where the father died in 1866 or 1867.  The mother had died 
a number of years earlier, and the father had afterward married Mrs. (Mayfield) 
Jones, who is also now deceased.  Pleasant H. Wilson was the ninth of ten 
children (six of whom are now living), and was only fourteen years of age when 
he started out in life for himself.  He went to Maries County, and for one year 
was employed on a farm at five dollars per month.  He made three crops in Miller 
County, and in 1861 enlisted in Company B, Tenth Missouri Cavalry, but at the end 
of seven months was honorable discharged on account of disability, and returned to 
Miller County, but joined the State Militia, serving ten months.  He then married 
Sophia, a daughter of Asa Burlingame.  She was born in Ohio in 1844, and became 
the mother of five children, four of whom survive; Asa B., who is married, and 
lives near Garden City; George W., Effie F. and Eliza J.  James Pleasant died 
when an infant.  After his marriage Mr. Wilson farmed for one year in Miller County, 
then one year in Hickory and two years in Laclede County.  He then returned to 
Hickory County, and purchased forty acres of land, and has continued to add to this 
purchase until he now owns 720 acres of some very fine land, all of which he has 
earned by industry and good management and the aid of his faithful wife.  He is a 
Republican politically, and he and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
and four of their children are members of the Methodist Protestant Church.  

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