William
Hamilton
(Hamilton)
Wilson
Born in North Carolina, United States
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Katherine Lee (Ketner) Wilson
— married
1 May 1828 in Davidson County, North Carolina
Descendants 
Father of
George Washington Wilson, James Madison Wilson, Thomas Wilson, Mariam Wilson, Melvina Wilson, Lewis Alexander Wilson, Lucinda Wilson, Martha Jane Wilson and Clementine Wilson
Died
at age 63
in Davidson, North Carolina, United States
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Biography
Hamilton Wilson was born on 7 June, 1807 in North Carolina. His parents were possibly James Wilson Wilson-37690 and Hannah Bryan Wilson Bryan-3517, according to information given to me by a family member. However, I am detaching them from Hamilton's profile until there is concrete evidence. The information on James and Hannah mentioned here are for research purposes only.
Hamilton and Katherine Lee Ketner Ketner-183 were married on May 1, 1828. Joshua Wilson, Jr. Wilson-36020 was the bondsman. The marriage license bears the signature of three people: Hamilton, Robert Foster as witness and J. Wilson, Jr as bondsman. [1]
'United States Federal Census records
In the 1840 census Hamilton and family were living in the Southfork District of Stokes County, which later was to become a part of Forsyth County. His household included the following:
- Name: Hamilton Wilson-Home in 1840 (City, County, State): Southfork District, Stokes, North Carolina
- Free White Persons - Males - 5 thru 9: 3
- Free White Persons - Males - 30 thru 39: 1
- Free White Persons - Females - Under 5: 2
- Free White Persons - Females - 30 thru 39: 1
- Persons Employed in Agriculture: 1
- Free White Persons - Under 20: 5
- Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 2
- Total Free White Persons: 7
- Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves: 7
- Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 2
- Total Free White Persons: 7
- Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves: 7
Hamilton was NOT a slave owner. [2]
In 1850 the following persons were listed in the US Federal Census for Hamilton and Katherine's household:
- Hamilton Wilson M 45 North Carolina
- Catharine Wilson F 40 North Carolina
- Marry Ketner F 67 North Carolina
- George W Wilson M 20 North Carolina
- James M Wilson M 19 North Carolina
- Thomas Wilson M 17 North Carolina
- Mariam Wilson F 13 North Carolina
- Elrina Wilson F 10 North Carolina
- Lucinda Wilson F 6 North Carolina
- Lewis Wilson M 8 North Carolina
- Jane Wilson F 3 North Carolina [3]
- 1860: Hamilton, now living in Davidson County, was a farmer with real estate valued at $250. and $570. in personal property. The two older children in the home were working on the farm while the three younger ones were in school. The oldest child, George Washington Wilson, was no longer living in the family home in 1860. He and Hariett had married in 1856 and had started their own household.[4]
- Hamilton and Katherine Lee Ketner Ketner-183 were married on 1 May, 1828. Joshua Wilson, Jr. Wilson-36020 was the bondsman. The marriage license bears the signature of three people: Hamilton, Robert Foster as witness and J. Wilson, Jr as bondsman.
- Hamilton had some business with the Confederacy and is mentioned in document no. 121: [5]
- Hamilton Wilson died in 1870 and was buried in Old Vernon Baptist Church Cemetery in Davidson County, North Carolina.[6]
- Find A Grave Memorial# 19362320
- Notation on formation of counties: Davidson County was formed from Stokes in 1822, and Forsyth was formed from Stokes in 1849. The Southfork District of Stokes where Hamilton lived in 1840 is present day Forsyth County.
The following biographical note was written by Elbert Ezra Wilson Wilson-41298. Dwight Childers transcribed it for use on WikiTree. My thanks to both for their hard work.
"William Hamilton Wilson 1807 - 1870 Davidson County, NC"
"Hamilton Wilson took great pride in the orchard he had about the house with a variety of apples that would make Harry Bird envious. These were the Dan River, the magnobonum, pound pipkin, russet and a variety that was scarlet red all the way to the core; all of which varieties seem now extinct. There were pears, peaches, sugar cherries, black—heart cherries, merillo or sour cherries with damsons and blue plums all around the fringe of the fields. Another orchard he planted on Mexico Hill where after the Civil War he settled his younger son Lewis. This was mostly Dan River apples with a row of coppel along the Stage Road. Grandma Katherine was just as skilled with her garden as her husband with his trees, raising and kept a wide variety of peas, beans, sweet—corn, cucumbers, squash, tomatoes, potatoes, with the ever present catnip and sage bushes by the garden gate, but she added tansy, rhue, featherfew, thyme, lavender, rosemary, sweet fennel, most of which garden commodities we moderns have never seen. Some have suggested that being of German stock the Ketners would have had hops for making beer. Perhaps that accounts for the wild hops on Indian Hill that are still such a pest."
- Elbert Ezra Wilson
- Census records
- 1840 US Federal Census for Southfork District, Stokes County, North Carolina
Hamilton Wilson in the 1840 United States Federal Census VIEW 1840 United States Federal Census View blank form Name: Hamilton Wilson Home in 1840 (City, County, State): Southfork District, Stokes, North Carolina Free White Persons - Males - 5 thru 9: 3 Free White Persons - Males - 30 thru 39: 1 Free White Persons - Females - Under 5: 2 Free White Persons - Females - 30 thru 39: 1 Persons Employed in Agriculture: 1 Free White Persons - Under 20: 5 Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 2 Total Free White Persons: 7 Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves: 7 [7]
- Marriage
Hamilton Wilson in the North Carolina, Marriage Records, 1741-2011 VIEW North Carolina, Marriage Records, 1741-2011 Name: Hamilton Wilson Gender: Male Marriage Date: 1 May 1828 Marriage Place: Davidson, North Carolina, USA Spouse: Catherine Lee Ketner Spouse Gender: Female Event Type: Marriage [8]
- Death
Hamilton Wilson in the U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current Name: Hamilton Wilson Birth Date: 7 Jun 1807 Death Date: Aug 1870 Cemetery: Old Vernon Baptist Church Cemetery Burial or Cremation Place: Davidson County, North Carolina, USA Has Bio?: N Spouse: Katherine Wilson Children: Pvt James Madison Wilson URL: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-... [9]
- Hamilton Wilson's participation in the Civil War:
- UNITED STATES CIVIL WAR CONFEDERATE PAPERS OF CITIZENS OR BUSINESSES, 1861-1865
- Affiliate Publication Title Confederate Papers Relating to Citizens or Business Firms
Affiliate Publication Number M346 Affiliate Film Number 1124 [10]
- Hamilton Wilson
in the U.S., Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865 U.S., Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865 No Image Text-only collection Name: Hamilton Wilson Rank at enlistment: Private State Served: North Carolina Service Record: Enlisted in Company B, North Carolina 29th Infantry Regiment. Sources: North Carolina Troops 1861-65, A Roster [11]
- Hamilton Wilson and Katherine Ketner Wilson Ketner-183 are mentioned in the marriage record of some of their children:
- Hamilton Wilson
mentioned in the record of King David Whitaker and Clementine Wilson Name Hamilton Wilson Gender Male Wife Catherine Wilson Daughter Clementine Wilson Other information in the record of and from North Carolina, County Marriages Name King David Whitaker Event Type Marriage Event Date 15 Sep 1875 Event Place , Forsyth, North Carolina, United States Gender Male Age 43 Marital Status Married Race White Birth Year (Estimated) 1832 Father's Name Jordan Whitaker Mother's Name Rebe... Whitaker Spouse's Name Clementine Wilson Spouse's Gender Female Spouse's Age 23 Spouse's Race White Spouse's Birth Year (Estimated) 1852 Spouse's Father's Name Hamilton Wilson Spouse's Mother's Name Catherine Wilson[12]
- Hamlton Wilson
mentioned in the record of Thomas Wilson and Mary E. Dilworth Name Hamlton Wilson Gender Male Wife Catherine Wilson Son Thomas Wilson Other information in the record of and from North Carolina, County Marriages Name Thomas Wilson Event Type Marriage Event Date 18 Jun 1878 Event Place ... Creek Township, Forsyth, North Carolina, United States Gender Male Age 42 Marital Status Married Race White Birth Year (Estimated) 1836 Father's Name Hamilton Wilson Mother's Name Catherine Wilson Spouse's Name Mary E. Dilworth Spouse's Gender Female Spouse's Age 37 Spouse's Race White Spouse's Birth Year (Estimated) 1841 Spouse's Father's Name Harvey Dilworth Spouse's Mother's Name Elizabeth Dilworth [13]
Notes
NOTES
I have used research done by a distant cousin back in the sixties, but I am not comfortable with everything. The only sibling of Hamilton I feel confident of is John Washington Wilson. I will keep the others until I am more certain.
Who is Joshua Wilson who reports in census records to have been born in Maryland? What is his relation to Hamilton?
Sources
- ↑ Source Information Ancestry.com. North Carolina, Marriage Records, 1741-2011 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.Original data: North Carolina County Registers of Deeds. Microfilm. Record Group 048. North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, NC.
- ↑ Source Citation Year: 1840; Census Place: Southfork District, Stokes, North Carolina; Roll: 372; Page: 169; Family History Library Film: 0018098Source Information Ancestry.com. 1840 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.
- ↑ Citing this Record"United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4BM-DMW : 9 November 2014), Hamilton Wilson, Davidson county, Davidson, North Carolina, United States; citing family 224, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
- ↑ Citing this Record "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDD1-KKC : 30 December 2015), Hamilton Wilson, 1860.
- ↑ T176300 - source needed
- ↑ Citing this Record "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVVL-WMX8 : 13 December 2015), Hamilton Wilson, 1870; Burial, , Davidson, North Carolina, United States of America, Old Vernon Baptist Church Cemetery; citing record ID 19362320, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com
- ↑ Source Citation Year: 1840; Census Place: Southfork District, Stokes, North Carolina; Roll: 372; Page: 169; Image: 345; Family History Library Film: 0018098
- ↑ Source Information Ancestry.com. North Carolina, Marriage Records, 1741-2011 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Original data: North Carolina County Registers of Deeds. Microfilm. Record Group 048. North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, NC.
- ↑ Source Information Ancestry.com. U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.
- ↑ "United States Civil War Confederate Papers of Citizens or Businesses, 1861-1865," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V4MQ-5YQ : 4 December 2014), Hamilton Wilson, 1861-1865; from "Confederate Papers Relating to Citizens or Business Firms, 1861-1865," database, Fold3.com (http://www.fold3.com : n.d.); citing NARA microfilm publication M346 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1124.
- ↑ Source Information Historical Data Systems, comp. U.S., Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2009. Original data: Data compiled by Historical Data Systems of Kingston, MA from the following list of works.
- ↑ Citing this Record "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 ," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F8DL-TBZ : 22 December 2016), Hamilton Wilson in entry for King David Whitaker and Clementine Wilson, 15 Sep 1875; citing , Forsyth, North Carolina, United States, p. , Office of Archives and History, Division of Archives and Records. State Archive of North Carolina and various county Register of Deeds; FHL microfilm 899,597.
- ↑ Citing this Record "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 ," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F8DG-QPZ : 22 December 2016), Hamilton Wilson in entry for Thomas Wilson and Mary E. Dilworth, 18 Jun 1878; citing ... Creek Township, Forsyth, North Carolina, United States, p. , Office of Archives and History, Division of Archives and Records. State Archive of North Carolina and various county Register of Deeds; FHL microfilm 899,597.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Hamilton by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Hamilton:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Hamilton by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Hamilton:
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Categories: North Carolina, Wilson Name Study
Born 28 Sep 1812 in Hamburg Township, North Carolina
Son of William Wilson and Catherine Elizabeth (Thompson) Wilson
Brother of Alexander Wilson and Sarah Isabelle (Wilson) Zachary [add sibling]
Husband of Rebecca (Shook) Wilson married 20 Mar 1844 in Macon, North Carolina, USA
Father of Mary Ann (Wilson) Owens, Martha Jane (Wilson) Franks, Thomas Alfred Wilson, Amanda Eliza (Wilson) Beck, Magraret C. Wilson, Sarah Arlena (Wilson) Woodring and Rebecca Avalene (Wilson) Gribble [add child]
Died 29 Mar 1889 in Hamburg Township, North Carolina