Robert Wilson and Sarah McConnell

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Husband Robert Wilson ¹

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           Born: 1774 - Ardstraw, County Tyrone, Ireland 2
     Christened: 
           Died: 21 May 1832 - Clarion Co, PA 2
         Buried: 

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         Father: Samuel Wilson (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Jane Love (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage:  - Clarion Co, PA

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   Other Spouse: Mary Kirkpatrick (      -      ) 2 - Abt Sep 1824

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Wife Sarah McConnell ²

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           Born: 1782 2
     Christened: 
           Died: 25 Mar 1823 - ? Clarion Co, PA 2
         Buried: 

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Children

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1 M Samuel Wilson ³

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           Born: 1808 - Clarion Co, PA 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 21 Jan 1879 - Strattanville, Clarion Twp, Clarion Co, PA 3
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Elizabeth Moran (1816-      ) 3
           Marr: 1836 3

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2 M Stewart Wilson ²

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           Born: 
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         Spouse: Margaret Sharp (      -      ) 2

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3 M Col. John McConnell Wilson ²

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           Born: 
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           Died: 
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         Spouse: Ruth Goheen (      -      ) 2

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4 M David Wilson ²

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           Born: 
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           Died: 
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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5 F Nancy Wilson ^{2 4}

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           Born: 25 Dec 1819 4
     Christened: 
           Died: 28 Feb 1917 - ? Brookville, Jefferson Co, PA 5
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         Spouse: Hon. Joseph Washington Henderson (1814-1896) 2 4
           Marr: 17 Feb 1840 5

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6 F Mary Ann Wilson ⁶

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           Born: 1821 - Clarion Co, PA 2
     Christened: 
           Died: 24 Mar 1887 7
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         Spouse: Dr. James Ross (1813-1883) 8

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7 M Robert M. Wilson ^{2 9}

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           Born: 1823 - Centre Co, PA 2
     Christened: 
           Died: 1877 9
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Mary Ann Gray (      -1861) 2 9

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8 F Jane Wilson ^{2 10}

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           Born:  - Pennsylvania
     Christened: 
           Died: 14 Sep 1892 10
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Isaac Jones (      -1892) 2 10

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9 F Elizabeth Wilson ¹¹

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General Notes: Husband - Robert Wilson

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He was nine years of age when brought by his parents to the United States, but a man grown and the head of the family when permanent settlement was made in Clarion county, where he cleared the farm previously referred to, built a pole, then a log house, and later a comfortable home and commodious barn. The county was very wild, and when Robert was at work clearing his fields, his wife, if danger was near, took her two babes and stayed near him. The old log house contained three rooms, all heated by one big wood stove, fuel being the one thing plentiful. In addition to his farm, Robert Wilson conducted a blacksmith shop and dis­tillery. He was a busy man, and in later years, when the new house was built and the country more settled, his house was a centre of neighborhood sociability, especially in winter, when several sled loads would assemble nearly every night. He was a well informed intelligent man, and was one of the few who subscribed for and read a newspaper. His son John, a good reader, would read aloud from the paper to five or six neighbors who gathered weekly to hear the news from the outside world.

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Notes: Marriage

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It is said the marriage of Robert Wilson and Sarah McConnell was the second in what is now Clarion County, Pennsylvania.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 473.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 474.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 475.

4 Editor, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Company, 1917), Pg 4.

5 Editor, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Company, 1917), Pg 6.

6 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 474, 1018.

7 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 1018.

8 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 474, 1017.

9 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1200.

10 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1335.

11 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 419.