The Wayne County, West Virginia Wilsons & Their Related Families


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James Wilson was born 22 June 1767, probably in Virginia. He married Sarah Mounts (1775-1865) in 1795 in Bath County, Virginia. They had thirteen children. He died in 1857 in Wayne County, Virginia. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio and Texas.




The Wilson Family of Western Maryland and West Virginia and Associated Families


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Thomas Wilson I. (d. 1764) was born in Edinburg, Scotland, immigrated to Northern Ireland where he married Mary Riley. Together they immigrated to Nova Scotia in 1732, and later to Frederick County, Maryland. Descendants lived also in Maine, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, Indiana and elsewhere.




The Solomon and Nancy Ellen (Ball) Thompson Family of Wayne County, West Virginia


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John Thompson (d. ca. 1760) is believed to be of Scotch-Irish origin and first settled in America in Pennsylvania. He and his wife Mary had six children and later moved to Halifax County, North Carolina. There sons migrated to Virginia. Solomon Thompson (1842-1903) was born in Virginia and married Nancy Ellen Ball. She descends from John Ball (b. ca. 1670- d. 1722) of Virginia. Solomon and Nancy had eight children, and raised them in Wayne County, West Virginia. Descendants now live throughout the United States.







Ferguson Family Genealogical History of Wayne County, West Virginia (early Cabell and Kanawha, Virginia), Mainly Samuel and Mary (Jameson) Ferguson (1744-1825) and Descendants, Also Joel Ferguson (1797-1857) and Daniel Ferguson (1832-1886) and Descendants


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Samuel Ferguson (1744-1825) emigrated probably from Ireland or Scotland to America. Descendents lived in West Virginia, South Carolina, and elsewhere.




Wilsons and Burchells and Related Families, 1608-1976


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Benjamin Willson was born about 1750 in England, Maryland or Virginia, and settled in Virginia (now West Virginia) in Monongalia County. He died in 1834.




The Crabtree Family of Wayne County, West Virginia


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William Crabtree I (1683-1756) and his family immigrated in 1705 from England to Kingsville, Baltimore County, Maryland. Descendants and relatives lived in Maryland, Virginia, Ohio and elsewhere.




Family History of William H. Wilson


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William H. Wilson (1783-1863) was born in Rockbridge County, Virginia. He and his wife, Jane McCampbell and their eight children migrated to Mingo, Randolph Co. (now Mingo, West Virginia), Virginia in 1829. William married Jane McCampbell (1790-1850), daughter of John McCampbell, in 1811. They were parents of eleven children. Descendants live in Kansas, Virginia, West Virginia, Oklahoma, California, Missouri, Arkansas, Utah and elsewhere.







Their Life in the Land


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The immediate family are descendants of Ephraim Jackson (ca. 1755-1827), who married twice and lived in Brunswick County, Virginia. Ephraim was a son of Thomas Jackson (d.1804) and either Sarah Harwell or Susanna Randle Jackson. The relationship between Thomas Jackson (d.1804) and Thomas Jackson Sr. (d.ca. 1737/1738) is unknown. Descendants and relatives lived in Virginia, North Carolina, West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio and elsewhere.