GEORGE WILSON
The
subject of this sketch, was born in Allegheny county, in 1792. His
father, Peter Wilson, was a native of Ireland, from whence he emigrated
to Allegheny county, in 1777-78. He served for some time in the
American army, during the Revolution. In 1796, he came with his two
sons, George, the subject of this sketch, and James, and settled in
Jackson township, in 1796. George Wilson was out in the War of 1812, in
one of the numerous companies which Mercer county sent into the field.
In the year 1815, he married Miss Mary McFatrick, a daughter of George McFatrick, of Mercer county.
She
was born in the same year (1796) in which young Wilson came with his
father to Mercer county. The happy couple lived together for over half
a-century (55 years) when Mrs. Wilson “departed to that bourne from
whence no traveler returns.” She died in the year 1870, greatly loved
and respected, and deeply mourned by a large circle of friends and
neighbors.
Mr. Wilson still survives at the great age of
eighty-four. He makes his home with his son, M. A. Wilson, who occupies
the old homestead.
The veteran pioneers of the wilderness, are
mostly gone. Here and there a straggler lingers upon the verge, but
soon “the places that once knew them shall know them no more forever.”
History of Mercer County, 1877, page 137
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