BIO: William F. WILSON, Huntingdon County, PA

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McElroy, James Thomas Jr., McElroy's Family Memories, 
Huntingdon, PA: (Author), 1930, page 228.
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W. F. WILSON
Jackson Township, Huntingdon Co., Pa.

Farmer:  W. F. Wilson was born in Jackson Township, Huntingdon County, 
Pa., August 3, 1875, and in the rural school of Jackson Township 
received his education.  Stewart Wilson was his father, a Civil War 
veteran, who served in the 184th Regiment Penna. Vol. Inf.; he was a 
lumberman; had saw mills; died in 1909, sixty-four years of age.  
Margaret Henninger was his wife's name before marriage, now living in 
Jackson township; they were of Scotch-Irish descent.  W.F. Wilson has 
been farming for five years on a farm of two hundred and fifty acres; 
in winter months follows the lumber business.  Both he and his wife 
belong to the Lutheran Church. Brothers and sisters are:  Jesse E., 
married to Nina Lehman, Belleville, Pa.; George M., married to Ella 
Green, a farmer, Jackson township; John H., married to Beulah Baney, a 
farmer, Jackson township; Thomas M., married to Nannie Stumk, Jackson 
township; Samuel R., Smithville, Ohio; Chester S., married to Bessie 
Powell, Jackson township; Howard T., Burnham, Mifflin County, Pa.; 
Sophia E., married to J. H. Eckley, Jackson township; Catharine E., 
married to C. H. Mateer, Belleville, Pa.; Maude A., married to Frank 
Charter, Renova, Pa.; May, married to Frank Randolph, Burnham, Mifflin 
Co., Pa.; Benjamin E., married to Martha A. Green, McAlevy's Fort, 
Huntingdon Co., a family of ten children. William F. Wilson was married 
to Eliza E. Baughman, a daughter of Charles and Jane Baughman, of 
Jackson township, Huntingdon County, Pa.; his children are Charles S., 
married to Lizzie Gross; Samuel J., married to May Koch; Henry M., at 
home; Theodore L, at home, thirteen years of age; William T., at home, 
ten years old.  Daughters are:  Myrtle E., married to Roy DeArmitt; 
Dora B., married to George Russel Snook, Bellville, Mifflin County, 
Pa.; Bessie H., married to Leslie Shatzler, Reedsville, Mifflin County, 
Pa, and Sarah A., at home, a family of nine children.  

Note: William F. Wilson, 44, Eliza Wilson, 37, Myrtle Wilson, 21, 
Charles Wilson, 19, Samuel Wilson, 18, Dora Wilson, 15, Henry Wilson, 
12, Bessie Wilson, 10, Annie Wilson, 7, and Theodore Wilson, 4 7/12, 
are listed in the 1920 Jackson Township, Huntingdon County census.