Jul-28-2018                   
             Husband: Joseph M. Wilson    
                Born: 1790                 in Virginia  1,2
                Died: 1861                  2
              Buried: (unmarked)           in Pullman Cemetery, Pullman, Ritchie Co, WV  2
              Census: 1850, 1860           in Ritchie Co, (W)VA  
          Occupation:                      farmer  1
              Father:
              Mother:
                Wife: Elizabeth Gray     
         Census name: Eliz 
                Born: 1791                 in Virginia  2,1
                Died: Feb-15-1880           2
              Buried: (unmarked)           in Pullman Cemetery, Pullman, Ritchie Co, WV  2
              Census: 1850, 1860           in Ritchie Co, (W)VA  
              Father:
              Mother:
           M Child 1: Joseph M. Wilson, Jr.      
                Born: May-  -1822           3,4
                Died: 1908                  4
              Buried:                      in EUB Church Cemetery, Pennsboro, Ritchie Co, WV  2
              Census: 1870                 in Clay District, Ritchie Co, WV  
              Census: 1850, 1860           in Ritchie Co, (W)VA  
          Occupation: 1900                 mail carrier  3
          Occupation: 1870                 machine shop worker  5
          Occupation: 1850, 1860           farmer  1,6
                Wife: Rebecca Ann Weaver  b. ca 1825  d. 1870  
             Married: Nov-28-1844          in Ritchie Co, (W)VA  7
                Wife: Susan Gallien  b. May-  -1855  d. 1911  
             Married: Aug-30-1870          in Wood Co, WV  8
           M Child 2: Peter T. Wilson      
                Born: Jul- 7-1827           9
                Died: Dec-18-1901           9
              Buried:                      in Pullman Cemetery, Pullman, Ritchie Co, WV  10
              Census: 1850, 1860           in Ritchie Co, (W)VA  
                Wife: Amy Baker  b. Dec-25-1830  d. Jan-21-1917  
           F Child 3: Sarah Wilson      
                Born: ca 1828              in Virginia  1
              Census: 1850                 in Ritchie Co, (W)VA  
           F Child 4: Elizabeth Wilson      
                Born: 1830                  4
                Died: 1911                  4
              Buried:                      in EUB Church Cemetery, Pennsboro, Ritchie Co, WV  2
              Census: 1850                 in Ritchie Co, (W)VA  
             Husband: Levi Wells  b. 1829  d. 1905  
           M Child 5: Reason H. Wilson      
         Census name: Rezin Wilson 
                Born: 1835                 in Monongalia Co, (W)VA  1,11 (see note 1)
                Died: Jul-14-1864          in Andersonville Prison, GA  2,12
              Buried:                      in Andersonville National Cemetery, Macon Co, GA  2
              Census: 1850, 1860           in Ritchie Co, (W)VA  
          Occupation:                      husbandry  11
            Military:                      Pvt, Co G, 14th W.Va. Inf, Civil War (POW)  12
                Wife: Sarah Jane Gribble  b. ca 1835  
             Married: Sep- 6-1852          in Ritchie Co, (W)VA  13

Sources:
(1) 1850 Census, Ritchie County, (W)VA. 
(2) Findagrave.com. 
(3) 1900 Census, Ritchie County, WV (Clay District) 
(4) Headstone (year only) 
(5) 1870 Census, Ritchie County, WV (Clay Twp) 
(6) 1860 Census, Ritchie County, (W)VA. 
(7) Virginia Compiled Marriages, 1740-1850 [database on-line], Ancestry.com. 
(8) Wood County Marriage Records, Parkersburg, WV, Identified as J. M. Wilson, widowed, 37 (sic), b. Va., res. Wood Co, son 
of J. & L. (sic), occupation farmer; and Susan Gallien, single, 23, b. Va., res. Wood Co, dau of Samuel & (illegible).  
Married Aug 30 1870 Wood County. MR p. 49 : 
www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=10743740&Type=Marriage. 
(9) Headstone. 
(10) Ritchie County Historical Society (David M. Scott, Editor), Ritchie County, West Virginia Cemeteries through 1993, 
McClain Printing Co, Parsons, WV, 1995. 
(11) Ritchie County Marriage Records, Harrisville, WV. 
(12) 1890 Veterans Schedules [database online], Ancestry.com and National Archives & Records Administration. 
(13) Ritchie County Marriage Records, Harrisville, WV, Identified as Reason (middle initial unclear) Wilson, single, 20, b. 
Monongahela (sic) Co Va, occupation husbandry; and Sarah Jane Gribble, single, 17, b. Preston Co.  Married Sep 6 1852.  
In the column "Names of their Parents," under Husband was entered Joseph, and under Wife was entered Elizabeth.  There 
was no indication whose parents were named. MR p. 1. 

Event Notes
Note (1) Age in marriage record would put birth in about 1832, but age 15 in 1850
Census puts it in about 1835.  Findagrave reports birthplace as Ritchie County,
but marriage record states Monongalia County.







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