William Wilson and Jane Curry

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Husband William Wilson ^{1 2 3 4}

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           Born:  - Centre Co, PA
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           Died: 8 Sep 1849 - ? Venango Co, PA 1 2
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       Marriage: 29 Sep 1814 1

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   Other Spouse: Susannah Irwin (      -1813) 1 - 23 Oct 1795 1

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Wife Jane Curry ^{1 3 5}

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         Father: John Curry (      -      ) 5
         Mother: Elizabeth Kerr (      -      ) 6

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   Other Spouse: Robert Lewis (Abt 1788-1813) 3 7

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Children

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1 M Peter Wilson ⁴

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2 M Samuel C. Wilson ^{2 4}

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           Born: 24 Feb 1823 - Cherrytree Twp, Venango Co, PA 2
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         Spouse: Emily C. Marsh (      -      ) 2
           Marr: 1850 2

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3 M Thomas Patterson Wilson ⁴

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4 M Alexander R. Wilson ⁴

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5 M Chase Wilson ⁴

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           Died: Bef 1899
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6 F [Unk] Wilson

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         Spouse: William Pastorius (      -      ) 4

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General Notes: Husband - William Wilson

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He came to Venango County, Pennsylvania, with his first wife and settled in the northern part of Cherrytree Township, north of Breedtown, in 1803 or 1804. Their first improvement was a log cabin, which they erected and lived in for several years. They had a family of six children. With his second wife he had nine children.

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General Notes: Wife - Jane Curry

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Six months after the death of her husband, she gave birth to a posthumous son, to whom she gave the father's name, Robert. Not long afterward she accompanied her parents-in-law, when they moved out of Crawford County, PA, to Cincinnati, Ohio. A cousin of the widow, a lad perhaps a dozen years old, named James Felton, the son of John and Ellen (Kerr) Felton, accompanied her. After a year or two, the widow, leaving her parents-in-law in Cincinnati, started back for Oil Creek. She rode on horseback, young Felton traveling by her side on foot, and the little boy, Rob­ert, sitting before her on the horse, and playing with the reins of the bridle. In this manner, with young Felton and the infant, Robert, about two years old, as her sole companions, she rode all the way from Cincinnati, a distance of four hundred miles, back to her kindred in Oil Creek Township. Her way was mostly through forests, in which Indians, many of them hostile, roamed. There were few bridges, so that she had to ford most of the streams.

1 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 568.

2 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 1050.

3 —, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 917.

4 Samuel P. Bates, LL.D., Our County and Its People, A Historical and Memorial Record of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (W. A. Fergusson & Co., 1899), Pg 556.

5 Samuel P. Bates, LL.D., Our County and Its People, A Historical and Memorial Record of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (W. A. Fergusson & Co., 1899), Pg 296.

6 Samuel P. Bates, LL.D., Our County and Its People, A Historical and Memorial Record of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (W. A. Fergusson & Co., 1899), Pg 555.

7 Samuel P. Bates, LL.D., Our County and Its People, A Historical and Memorial Record of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (W. A. Fergusson & Co., 1899), Pg 296, 555.