4GG Bartlett Jefferson Wilson 1808 - 1867
The official first name to be added to my list of 64. Bartlett was born in 1808 in Buncombe, North Carolina to Joshua Wilson. I'm still questioning the name of the mother. Frances Garetta is a name commonly used as his mother, but the details of her marriage to a Joel Hickman leaves me with some serious doubts. Bartlett passed away January 16, 1876 in Marion, Ozark County, Missouri.
The marriage of Elizabeth Williams and Bartlett Jefferson Wilson
happened on 28 Dec 1837 in Marion County, Tennessee according to U.S.
and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900. Their son, John Wilson is
commonly nicknamed John "Polecat" Wilson.
There is an excellent summary of Bartlett Jefferson's life written by his great-grandson William Yates on Findagrave. Which I will share with permission...
Bartlett Wilson was born in North Carolina, but by 1837 was living in Marion Co., Tenn. He married Elizabeth Williams at the home of her father, John Williams. They were married by Rev. George Walker, and two witnesses to the wedding were Franklin Drakins and Isaac Williams. Only one child, John Wilson, was born to this union. About 1858 the family moved to Missouri and settled in Marion Township in Ozark County.Both Bartlett Wilson and his son John served in the Civil War for the Union. On 18 October 1861 they enlisted in Company F of Phelps Missouri Infantry. While in the service, Bartlett suffered from heart disease, from which he later died. He was discharged on 12 May 1862 and returned to farming. A neighbor, James Turner, later stated that "said Wilson had a severe spell of Fever while he was in the Army, and complained a great deal from that time on til he died of smothering, and heart trouble". His widow, Elizabeth, later applied for a pension and declared that "Bartlett J. Wilson died at his home in Ozark County on January 16, 1867 of Heart and Lung disease the result of Typhoid and Pneumonia contracted in the line of duty". [Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington, D.C., #WO 427331].
Bartlett Wilson appears on the census of Marion Co., Tenn. in 1840. It appears that some of his wife's family were living in his household, including her widowed mother. [p. 4] When the 1850 census was taken, the Wilson family was still residing in Marion County, and Bartlett was a farmer. [Family #923] By the time of the 1860 census, the family was settled in Ozark Co., Mo. Their post office address was "Falling Springs". [p. 61, family #402]
A little over a year after his marriage, Bartlett Wilson purchased a 50 acre farm in Marion Co., Tenn. on Sequachee Creek. He paid William Rankin $100 for the land, which was located next to his father-in-law, John Williams. [Deed Book D, p. 152]. Before his move to Missouri, Bartlett sold the land to George W. Cain for $250. The deed was made on 8 Sept 1852. [Deed Book F, p. 450]
After the move to Missouri, Bartlett Wilson obtained land in Ozark County, which in 1860 was valued at $400. In 1870 the widow, Elizabeth Wilson, was living on the farm, which was valued at $800. [1860 and 1870 Census].According to Della Turner, Bartlett Wilson was buried in a small family graveyard on the farm in Ozark County. Two of the children of John Wilson who died young were also buried there. Aunt Della took this writer to the farm in Ozark County where the Wilsons are buried, and we visited the graves. There were no markers.
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