Who Was Zaccheus Wilson (1713 PA - 1796 GA)?

Question

Martha Armstrong married a Zaccheus Wilson.  She is shown on Wikitree married to two different Zaccheus Wilsons, with the same dates.  They can't be merged because they have completely different ancestry.

There apparently has been a long-standing debate about Zaccheus's parents.  Can anyone solve this miystery?

Comments

Usually when I look up names at familysearch.org there are some results that are helpful, but with Zaccheus Wilson and Martha Armstrong, it came up empty.

Answer 1

Here is a Zaccheus Wilson who died in PA in 1769:

Zaccehus Wilson

Memorial

 

Birth: unknown

Death: 1769

 

Burial: Edmundson Cemetery 

Glassport, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA

 

Created by: Millennium Memorials

Record added: Dec 19, 2006 

Find A Grave Memorial# 17088862

Answer 2

Here are some sources that discuss the Wilson family:

http://www.tn.gov/tsla/history/manuscripts/findingaids/2000-008.pdf

 

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tnsumner/wilsonfa.htm

 

http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/wilson/32642/

 

https://books.google.com/books?id=F8sWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA84&lpg=PA84&dq=The+Wilson+Family+Written+by+Jay+Guy+Cisco+From+Historic+Sumner+County,+Tennessee+1909&source=bl&ots=SIbgJuTbVQ&sig=Kuzog5lVjLZlvjW8WZiOQxxCuRU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDYQ6AEwBGoVChMI2dWNzb6QxgIVxM2ACh0UzABi#v=onepage&q=The%20Wilson%20Family%20Written%20by%20Jay%20Guy%20Cisco%20From%20Historic%20Sumner%20County%2C%20Tennessee%201909&f=false

Comments

Thanks Doug. I had found the info by Cisco and also the forum posts by Wilburn D Wright.  Wright's posts are difficult to follow, and he contradicts Cisco and his posts can be a bit "strong" about the errors others make, without citing his own sources.

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I have read Mr. Wright's books and also am one of the researchers who tried to respond to his messages on the Wilson Forum with actual documentation disputing his claims.  Mr. Wright had some ideas which were never documentated and could not be documented.  His books are similar to his Wilson Forum messages although without the nasty remarks and swear words.  Unfortunately Mr. Wilburn Dennis Wright passed away in June 2015 so cannot respond to any questions regarding his books. The strange aspect of his intense interest in the Wilson genealogy is he was not related or associated with the family.  He wrote this in his book and also said he did not care what Wilson researchers or descendants thought.

There has been so much written about the early ancestry of the Wilson family it  is difficult to find the proof and documentation, if any every existed.  I have tried, but always run into a dead end.  The Martha Armstrong having married Zaccheus Wilson is just one of those claims what no one seems to know how or why it was started.  It just keeps being repeated and circulated.