He married 1) 1 September 1835 in Nicholas County, Kentucky, Mary Vaughn [2] and 2) on 29 June 1853 in Nicholas County, Kentucky, his first cousin Nancy Wilson, the daughter of David Wilson Sr and Sarah Newman, and widow of Michael Plank. [3][4]
Sources
↑ Will of David Wilson, Nicholas Co KY Will Book H-307. Probate May Term 1885.
↑ Nancy's first husband Michael Plank had died before 1854 when a Fleming County, Kentucky deed mentions she was the widow of Michael Plank and had married William Wilson. The deed is for land in Fleming County, Kentucky "the same owned and possessed by Michael Plank, dec., the late husband of sd Nancy Wilson and held by sd Nancy Wilson by transfer of said Michael Plank, dec."
↑ Fleming County, Kentucky Deed Book 31, p 313, dated Feb 1854.
1850 US Census Nicholas Co KY, p 451
History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed. by William Henry Perrin, O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882. p. 800.
Acknowledgement
Over 40 years of research by Lynda Wilson Barlow, El Cajon, CA.
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