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
