John's parents were James/John James Wilson and Clarissa LeFlore, daughter of Louis LeFleur and Nancy Cravatt (Clarissa was half-sister to Greenwood LeFlore). John's parents married in 1816 at French Camp on the Natchez Trace in old Choctaw Nation, Mississippi Territory.
Not much is known about the father, James Wilson. His marriage record provides only this fact: that he was born about 1785. Family lore says he was an Irish trader from Kentucky, perhaps a friend to John Harkins, also a trader who married Louis LeFleur's daughter Louisa. James was 31 years old in 1816; this may have been his second marriage; we do not know of his family history.
After the opening of Robinson Road about 1826 as a mail and stagecoach route, the Wilson family opened the "Wilson Stand" about midway between Jackson in the south and Columbus in the north (about 8-10 miles south of present-day Louisville). James Wilson is said to have died around 1829.
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When he was ten years old in 1837, John Wilson came across the Trail of Tears during the Chickasaw Tribe removal. His people settled in the Doaksville area in the newly created Indian Territory.
On Jan 31, 1850, after residing on the new hunting ground about thirteen years, John was married to Jane James, the twelve-year-old daughter of Dace James, a white man, and Ruthie, a full-blood Chickasaw Indian [based on Jane's Dawes enrollment card], who with their daughter Jane, emigrated to the Indian Territory at the same time that Wilson came.
The marriage would last 42 years, through the Civil War and racial feuds, until John passed away in 1892. The couple settled near Wheelock, a mission established by the Presbyterian Church. From this union were born at the Wilson home a quarter of a mile east of Wheelock, Nannie, Hattie, William, Louis, George and John.
When the Civil War broke out, John Sr. went into the war and served for four years, or until the close of the war, leaving his wife in care of the home and six small children, with no one to help her but one Negro slave, named Ben, who was a blacksmith.
After the close of the war the family moved ten miles west to what is now known as Oak Hill, for about three years. Two more children were born to them, Edward H. and Raphael F.
In the year 1870 they moved two miles southwest to Clear Creek, where John operated a store and grist mill. The water mill stood there for many years, well into the 20th century until a flood took it away. During the last twenty years of his life John Wilson took an active part in Indian politics and served the Choctaw Nation as County Judge for many terms. He died in 1892 at Goodland on a visit to see his grandchildren and was buried there.
Link to grandson George Wilson (son of Louis Wilson)
George Wilson
Link to the family history that Raphael wrote, which was recorded by his son Rafe in 1938:
http://www.okgenweb.org/pioneer/ohs/wilson-raphael.htm
Not much is known about the father, James Wilson. His marriage record provides only this fact: that he was born about 1785. Family lore says he was an Irish trader from Kentucky, perhaps a friend to John Harkins, also a trader who married Louis LeFleur's daughter Louisa. James was 31 years old in 1816; this may have been his second marriage; we do not know of his family history.
After the opening of Robinson Road about 1826 as a mail and stagecoach route, the Wilson family opened the "Wilson Stand" about midway between Jackson in the south and Columbus in the north (about 8-10 miles south of present-day Louisville). James Wilson is said to have died around 1829.
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When he was ten years old in 1837, John Wilson came across the Trail of Tears during the Chickasaw Tribe removal. His people settled in the Doaksville area in the newly created Indian Territory.
On Jan 31, 1850, after residing on the new hunting ground about thirteen years, John was married to Jane James, the twelve-year-old daughter of Dace James, a white man, and Ruthie, a full-blood Chickasaw Indian [based on Jane's Dawes enrollment card], who with their daughter Jane, emigrated to the Indian Territory at the same time that Wilson came.
The marriage would last 42 years, through the Civil War and racial feuds, until John passed away in 1892. The couple settled near Wheelock, a mission established by the Presbyterian Church. From this union were born at the Wilson home a quarter of a mile east of Wheelock, Nannie, Hattie, William, Louis, George and John.
When the Civil War broke out, John Sr. went into the war and served for four years, or until the close of the war, leaving his wife in care of the home and six small children, with no one to help her but one Negro slave, named Ben, who was a blacksmith.
After the close of the war the family moved ten miles west to what is now known as Oak Hill, for about three years. Two more children were born to them, Edward H. and Raphael F.
In the year 1870 they moved two miles southwest to Clear Creek, where John operated a store and grist mill. The water mill stood there for many years, well into the 20th century until a flood took it away. During the last twenty years of his life John Wilson took an active part in Indian politics and served the Choctaw Nation as County Judge for many terms. He died in 1892 at Goodland on a visit to see his grandchildren and was buried there.
Link to grandson George Wilson (son of Louis Wilson)
George Wilson
Link to the family history that Raphael wrote, which was recorded by his son Rafe in 1938:
http://www.okgenweb.org/pioneer/ohs/wilson-raphael.htm
John's parents were James/John James Wilson and Clarissa LeFlore, daughter of Louis LeFleur and Nancy Cravatt (Clarissa was half-sister to Greenwood LeFlore). John's parents married in 1816 at French Camp on the Natchez Trace in old Choctaw Nation, Mississippi Territory.
Not much is known about the father, James Wilson. His marriage record provides only this fact: that he was born about 1785. Family lore says he was an Irish trader from Kentucky, perhaps a friend to John Harkins, also a trader who married Louis LeFleur's daughter Louisa. James was 31 years old in 1816; this may have been his second marriage; we do not know of his family history.
After the opening of Robinson Road about 1826 as a mail and stagecoach route, the Wilson family opened the "Wilson Stand" about midway between Jackson in the south and Columbus in the north (about 8-10 miles south of present-day Louisville). James Wilson is said to have died around 1829.
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When he was ten years old in 1837, John Wilson came across the Trail of Tears during the Chickasaw Tribe removal. His people settled in the Doaksville area in the newly created Indian Territory.
On Jan 31, 1850, after residing on the new hunting ground about thirteen years, John was married to Jane James, the twelve-year-old daughter of Dace James, a white man, and Ruthie, a full-blood Chickasaw Indian [based on Jane's Dawes enrollment card], who with their daughter Jane, emigrated to the Indian Territory at the same time that Wilson came.
The marriage would last 42 years, through the Civil War and racial feuds, until John passed away in 1892. The couple settled near Wheelock, a mission established by the Presbyterian Church. From this union were born at the Wilson home a quarter of a mile east of Wheelock, Nannie, Hattie, William, Louis, George and John.
When the Civil War broke out, John Sr. went into the war and served for four years, or until the close of the war, leaving his wife in care of the home and six small children, with no one to help her but one Negro slave, named Ben, who was a blacksmith.
After the close of the war the family moved ten miles west to what is now known as Oak Hill, for about three years. Two more children were born to them, Edward H. and Raphael F.
In the year 1870 they moved two miles southwest to Clear Creek, where John operated a store and grist mill. The water mill stood there for many years, well into the 20th century until a flood took it away. During the last twenty years of his life John Wilson took an active part in Indian politics and served the Choctaw Nation as County Judge for many terms. He died in 1892 at Goodland on a visit to see his grandchildren and was buried there.
Link to grandson George Wilson (son of Louis Wilson)
George Wilson
Link to the family history that Raphael wrote, which was recorded by his son Rafe in 1938:
http://www.okgenweb.org/pioneer/ohs/wilson-raphael.htm
Not much is known about the father, James Wilson. His marriage record provides only this fact: that he was born about 1785. Family lore says he was an Irish trader from Kentucky, perhaps a friend to John Harkins, also a trader who married Louis LeFleur's daughter Louisa. James was 31 years old in 1816; this may have been his second marriage; we do not know of his family history.
After the opening of Robinson Road about 1826 as a mail and stagecoach route, the Wilson family opened the "Wilson Stand" about midway between Jackson in the south and Columbus in the north (about 8-10 miles south of present-day Louisville). James Wilson is said to have died around 1829.
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When he was ten years old in 1837, John Wilson came across the Trail of Tears during the Chickasaw Tribe removal. His people settled in the Doaksville area in the newly created Indian Territory.
On Jan 31, 1850, after residing on the new hunting ground about thirteen years, John was married to Jane James, the twelve-year-old daughter of Dace James, a white man, and Ruthie, a full-blood Chickasaw Indian [based on Jane's Dawes enrollment card], who with their daughter Jane, emigrated to the Indian Territory at the same time that Wilson came.
The marriage would last 42 years, through the Civil War and racial feuds, until John passed away in 1892. The couple settled near Wheelock, a mission established by the Presbyterian Church. From this union were born at the Wilson home a quarter of a mile east of Wheelock, Nannie, Hattie, William, Louis, George and John.
When the Civil War broke out, John Sr. went into the war and served for four years, or until the close of the war, leaving his wife in care of the home and six small children, with no one to help her but one Negro slave, named Ben, who was a blacksmith.
After the close of the war the family moved ten miles west to what is now known as Oak Hill, for about three years. Two more children were born to them, Edward H. and Raphael F.
In the year 1870 they moved two miles southwest to Clear Creek, where John operated a store and grist mill. The water mill stood there for many years, well into the 20th century until a flood took it away. During the last twenty years of his life John Wilson took an active part in Indian politics and served the Choctaw Nation as County Judge for many terms. He died in 1892 at Goodland on a visit to see his grandchildren and was buried there.
Link to grandson George Wilson (son of Louis Wilson)
George Wilson
Link to the family history that Raphael wrote, which was recorded by his son Rafe in 1938:
http://www.okgenweb.org/pioneer/ohs/wilson-raphael.htm
