BIO:  WILSON Family, Menallen Township, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Page 481

WILSON FAMILY.  The first of the Wilson family to settle in Menallen Township 
was George Wilson, in about 1745.  He died September 15, 1785, aged nearly 
seventy-six years.  His wife, Ruth, died from the effects of a bite of a 
copperhead snake, July 12, 1784, aged nearly seventy-five years.  Their children 
were Alice, born September 10, 1741; Benjamin, born October 10, 1743; Sarah, 
born January 15, 1745, and Lydia D., born in February, 1747.  Benjamin Wilson 
and Sarah, his wife, had the following children:  Ruth, born November 1, 1775; 
George, March 10, 1778; Mary, September 13, 1780; Alice, December 6, 1782; 
Sarah, January 29, 1785.  The following are the names of the children of George 
Wilson and his wife, Sarah (Wright) Wilson:  William B., born February 11, 1800, 
died April 22, 1873 (was the father of George W. Wilson, now living in Menallen 
Township, and carrying on the nursery business); Benjamin F., Ruth W., Lydia and 
John.  William B. Wilson, of the fourth generation here, was married to Mary 
Wierman, a daughter of Nicholas Wierman, and they had five children:  George W., 
Eliza (who married William Tudor, now deceased), Jane (married to Samuel Way, of 
Bedford County), Hannah and Ruth (unmarried and residing at Bendersville).  
William B. Wilson died in 1873, aged seventy-three, and his widow in 1876, aged 
seventy-five years.