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Descendants of John Esq. Wilson

Generation No. 2

2. JOHN² WILSON (JOHN ESQ.¹) was born August 11, 1773, and died August 13, 1828 in (near) Golden Grove, Anderson, SC. He married SARAH.

Notes for JOHN WILSON:
A Representative from South Carolina; born at Wilson's Ferry (later Pilzer), Anderson Co., SC; attended the common schools; engaged in agricultural pursuits in Anderson Co., near Golden Grove, SC; operated public ferry across the Saluda River at what is now known as Pelzer. John was elected to the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Congresses, March 4, 1821-March 3, 1827. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the 20th Congress in 1826. He died at his home near Golden Frove, Anderson Co., SC, on August 13, 1828 and was interred in the family cemetery on his plantation which is now part of the industrial city of Pelzer, SC. Notes from Etta Hart Smithey state that he rode horseback to Congress since it was before the time of stagecoaches.

Children of JOHN WILSON and SARAH are:

	i.	HUMPHREY³ WILSON, b. November 29, 1804.
	ii.	SAMUEL WILSON, b. May 05, 1806; d. June 1860.
	iii.	CLARK WILSON, b. October 16, 1807; d. October 1841.
3.	iv.	MARGARET WILSON, b. January 25, 1810, South Carolina; d. January 29, 1896, Smith County, MS; Buried: Clear Creek Baptist Ch, Smith Co, MS.
	v.	JOHN WILSON, JR, b. August 18, 1812; d. September 28, 1847.
	vi.	ELIZABETH WILSON, b. December 1814.
	vii.	ROBERT WILSON, b. July 02, 1817.
	viii.	JASPER WILSON, b. February 1819.
4.	ix.	NEWTON WILSON, b. January 27, 1821.
	x.	JANE WILSON, b. July 06, 1823.
	xi.	SARAH WILSON, b. April 24, 1825.
	xii.	HUGH WILSON, b. April 15, 1827; d. June 07, 1867.

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