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Barbara Farris
Carrie Camp Memorial Library
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Thomas Smallwood Wilson was the first denizen of the lames farm. He was born
in Monongalia county, in 1784, and there he was married to Miss Hannah Camp,
daughter of Adam Camp, and in 1843, he came to this county, and settled on
the Michaels' farm, near Oxford, for a brief time, before coming to the Iames
homestead. He was of Scotch-Irish descent, his father, Thomas, senior, being
a native of Scotland (he having crossed the ocean after his eldest son,
Joseph, was
born).
This pioneer was a lumber merchant, and while on a trip to Cincinnati, in
1848, he contracted cholera, and by the time he had reached Parkersburg, on
his return, he was stricken with the fatal malady, and died there; and was
laid at rest near the present site of the B. & O. depot, at that place. Mrs.
Wilson died at the P. R. Tharp homestead, on Indian run, in 1856, and in the
Drake burying-ground, on the County farm she sleeps.
Their children were ten in number: the late John M., Freeport, Wirt county;
Mrs. Miranda (Elias) Summers, Slab creek; William L. Wilson, Monongalia
county, who died at the home of his daughter, near Grantsville; Mrs. Mary Ann
(John) Lough, Illinois; Joseph, of Doddridge county; Mrs. Lucy Ann (Manly)
Zinn, Holbrook; Mrs. Melissa Simmons, Auburn; Isaac Van Buren, Indian
creek--the only survivor of the family; Thomas Peter, also of Indian creek,
and Israel. who flied in youth.
John M. Wilson, son of Thomas M., above mentioned, was the first to make an
improvement on the farm that passed into the hands of Ransom Kendall, in
1849. He married Miss Sarah Reed, of Monongalia county, and from here they
went to Marion county,, and finally to Freeport, Wirt county, where he rests.
He was a minister of the M. P. church, having served various charges in West
Virginia and Ohio; was pastor of the Freeport circuit at the time of his
death.
He had seven children: Thomas, Mary, Melissa, Caroline, and Jackson have all
joined the hosts on the other side; Nathaniel and Mrs. Ellen Barker, live in
Ohio; and Mrs. Leone Hammond, in Wirt county.
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CHAPTER LIII Ritchie County Soldiers in the Civil War
Discharged in 1863 and '64:--Thomas B. Walters, Frederick Miller, Isaiah H.
Rexroad, William M. Skelton, Captain; Ezekiel Sheppard, 1st. Lieutenant;
Oliver P. Rolston, Sergeant; Samuel Hatfield, Abner H. Jobes, and F. W. G.
Camp,