James L. Wilson & Elizabeth Stoughton as remembered by John T. Wilson

The Wilsons lived at Slippery Rock, Butler Co., Pa. He worked at timber business and saw-milling, also traveled about the neighborhood doing custom threshing with a steam-powered threshing machine. He liked to hunt for both big and small game (killed one deer and about 1920 brought back alive a small black bear which he kept for about three years; finally sold it to Barnum & Bailey Circus. He was a good six feet tall, weighed around 200 pounds. He mostly wore a coat, vest and tie, and he always wore a mustache.
She was average height and was fairly heavy. She was neat in her appearance and always wore a good grade of clothes. She was a good cook. They had a good well furnished home with all the conveniences of that time. I don't think they ever had an automobile. She worried about the safety of her family working around that shacklebone equipment as she called it. I think they had a good life together. Both died with heart trouble.

John T. Wilson, ~1980