WILSON, JOHN L. - BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1876 HISTORY OF SANGAMON COUNTY, IL

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EARLY SETTLERS OF SANGAMON COUNTY - 1876
By John Carroll Power
These biographies were submitted by a researcher and evidently abstracted from the 1876 History of Sangamon County, IL. Errors could occur, so one should always verify the correctness by obtaining copies of vitals and performing all necessary research to document what is contained herein.

WILSON, JOHN L., was born March 6, 1816, in Bedford county, Tenn. In the fall of that vicar his parents moved to White county, Illinois, and after that to Bond and Montgomery counties. John L. came to Mechanicsburg in 1839 and was married in Sangamon county, June 18, 1843, to Margaret Gragg They had four children in Sangamon county.

JAMES A:, born March 25, 1844, died in his sixth year.

JOHN W., born April 30, 1847 lives with his parents.

MARTHA, born Jan. 17, 1850 married Clifton H. King. (See his name.)

JASON, born Oct. 7, 1853 lives with his parents.

Elder John L. Wilson was ordained as a Minister of the gospel by the Mechanicsburg congregation of the Christian Church in 1852. He served the church at Mechanicsburg half his time for the first two years, and the other half labored as an evangelist. For several years he has been wholly engaged as an evangelist, at the present time (1874) in Macon county. His family resides four and a half miles east of Mechanicsburg, Sangamon county, Illinois.

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