My Genealogy Hound

NATHANIEL W. WILSON, farmer and stock-raiser; P. O. Greenville. Among the old settlers of Darke Co., the gentleman who heads this sketch takes a place in the front ranks; he was born in Butler Co., Ohio, May 18, 1832; he was a son of Andrew P. Wilson, born in Kentucky July 2, 1801, and, with his parents, came to Butler Co. when 4 years of age. He was married, in the same county, to Sarah Allen, June 10, 1828; she was born in the Territory of Indiana April 10, 1808; in 1834, they came to Darke Co. and located in Harrison Township, and followed farming until the decease of Mr. Wilson, which occurred Sept 6, 1852. Mrs. Wilson is now living upon the old farm, where she has lived for a period of forty-five years. The subject of this memoir remained upon the home farm and engaged in agricultural pursuits until Dec 27, 1854, when he was united in marriage with Mary E. Rush; she was born in Harrison Township, Darke Co., Oct. 11, 1836; they have seven children now living, having lost three by death; the living are Margaret M., John K., William G., Sarah E., Charles A., Nathaniel Elmer and Andrew P.; upon the marriage of Mr. Wilson, he commenced farming for himself in Harrison Township, until the fall of 1871. He has served the county as its Sheriff for four years in succession, being first elected in 1871, and re-elected in 1873, and in 1875, he purchased a farm two miles south of Greenville, upon which he lived until February, 1878, when he sold and purchased his present place, where he has since lived; he now has 270 acres, with a good farm, located three miles from Greenville, on the Ft. Jefferson and Greenville pike, valued at some $15,000, nearly all of which he has accumulated by his own exertions. Mrs. Wilson was a daughter of Asa Rush, who was born in Bedford Co., Penn., April 25, 1799, and came to Darke Co., in 1812, and was among the first settlers of Darke Co.; he married Margaret Hill; she was born in South Carolina June 16, 1801, and died June 1856. Mr. Rush died May, 1874.