Jesse Wilson

UNDOCUMENTED ANCESTRY We find numerous sources with tantalizing data, but hesitate to adopt their findings when: the lines of descent conflict from one web source to another. documentation & sources are absent or insufficient the sources listed are unavailable to us, so that scope or ambiguity can't be assessed We offer this page as an ancestral possibility, with the caveat that it is unconfirmed by us.

Jesse Wilson is of direct interest to us because he appears in the 1850 census of Butler Co. PA in the James Wilson household, listed as the first son. Then he disappears from Butler County census records. He is not mentioned in the 1895 History of Butler County as a child of James Wilson, but possibly because he left the county at an early age and was lost to memory, or because of a simple error of recording. The History does say that James Wilson, after a brief time in Connoquenessing Twp., Butler Co. PA, moved on to Portsmouth, OH (Scioto Co.) where he died. (The fate of his wife Mary Baum is unclear). While we have failed to find census or burial records of James Wilson in Scioto & neighboring counties of Ohio, or across the river in Kentucky, a Jesse Wilson and wife Anna do appear in Scioto Co. OH beginning in 1860. We believe this possibly to be Jesse, the son of James Wilson. At present we have no corroborating sources, and without possibly a will for James Wilson, or something like church records that mentioned both, the relationship may remain inconclusive.

	Date	Location	Notes	Sources
Birth	1826	PA, possibly Berks (or Schuylkill) Co. (where James Wilson lived at the time).
Marriage			To Anna unknown
Death		expect Scioto Co. OH
Burial

Ancestry chart segment

  Generation 5   Generation 6
 
                  +-- James Wilson
                  |   (1805-????)   
   Jesse Wilson --+
   (1826-???? )   |
                  +-- Mary Baum
                      (1806-????)
                    
                         

Sources:

Children

( children with Anna unknown)

Name	Gender	Date of Birth	Birthplace	Spouse	Notes	Sources
Wilson	M

Places of Residence

Location	Dates	Notes	Sources
expect Berks/Schuylkill Co. PA	b. 1826
Westmoreland Co. PA	1831-1844,with parents
Muddy Creek Twp., Butler Co. PA	by 1840	with parents
Scioto Co. OH	by 1850
Muddy Creek Township, Butler County, PA	1860-1900	married; owned farm next to Gallagher family

Sources

Ref. Num.	Description	Image of original
1	1840 United States Federal Census, Muddy Creek, Butler County, PA, Page 7, lines 25-31 lists James Wilson, with family members as follows: 2 males under 5, 1 male 15-20, 1 male 30-40, 1 female 5-10, 1 female 20-30. The census is not dated.
2	1850 United States Federal Census, West Connoquenessing, Butler County, PA, Page 101, lines 25-31 lists James Wilson, 45, married to Mary Wilson, 44. They are listed as living with five children: Jesse Wilson, 24; Lot Wilson, 19; William Wilson, 17; Martha J. Wilson, 15; and George A. Wilson, 7. All family members are listed as having been born in PA. Lot and William are listed a "laborers," John is listed as a "Tanner" or possibly "Farmer". James' occupation is possibly "Carpenter". Lot, William, Martha, and George are listed as having attended school within the year. The census is dated August 23, 1850.
3	1860 United States Federal Census Jesse Wilson (age 31) and Anna (age 31) in Jefferson Twp, Scioto Co, OH. Also Samuel (age 13) and Margery (age 36). Jesse, Anna, & Samuel born in PA; Margery born in Ohio.
4	1870 United States Federal Census Jessie Wilson (age 42) and Annie Wilson (age 46) in Valley Twp, Scioto Co, OH. Birthplaces are reversed in this census, (ie. Jessie is said born in MD, Annie in PA).
5	1880 United States Federal Census Jessie Wilson (age 55) and wife Annie (age 56), in Valley Twp, Scioto Co, OH. Jessie & his parents all born PA; Annie & her father born PA, her mother born MD.
6	1900 United States Federal Census Jesse Wilson (age 74) in Portsmouth, OH. Wife Anna (age 75) bore 1 child; this child alive in 1900. Jesse & his parents born PA; Anna born PA, both her parents born MD.
4	1895 History of Butler Co. PA, Brown & Co., p. 1277: "Lott Wilson was born in Westmoreland county Pennsylvania, February 10, 1831, son of James and Mary (Baum) Wilson, and came with his parents to Butler county in 1844. His father was a native of Berks county, whence he removed to Westmoreland county, and afterwards to Butler county. After a few years' residence in Connoquenessing township, he removed to Portsmouth, Ohio, where he died. By his marriage to Mary Baum he became the father of ...Martha J., who married Hiram Milhuisen; Tamson, who married James Cratty; William, of Lancaster township, and Lott..."	( See complete text)
10	Jan Heckathorn (Finke) correspondence 2008-ongoing; and research manuscript "Descendants of James Wilson", including recollections of her mother, Dorothy Frances Wilson (Heckathorn), who was a granddaughter of James L. Wilson. Descendants of James Wilson, dates, spouses, source data. 4 children of James L. Wilson, their dates & additional data; descendants of sons James Garfield Wilson and Bert Winford Wilson, with spouses and source data.
12	Personal correspondence from Elizabeth Wilson Williams, granddaughter of Bert Winiford Wilson.	N/A

Source Notes

• John T. Wilson's manuscript, researched in about 1975-1985, lists the names of four children of James Wilson & Mary Baum: Tamson, Lot, William & Martha J. We expect that there was no direct family memory of the James Wilson generation, and that he had access to the 1895 History of Butler County as his source. The census record suggests additional children Jesse, John and George. However, it is possible that these were nephews and not children. We have no corroborating documentation.