Children of Nick & 1st wife, Matilda Rebecca Patten Wilson:

...daughter: Matilda
...daughter: Edna Jane
...daughter: Martha W.
...daughter: Hannah Louise
..........son: Elijah Nicholas (Jr.)
...daughter: Catherine Ann "Kate"
...daughter: Sara Welthia "Etta" Wilson Leek
...daughter: Polly Ann
..........son: William Patten
...daughter: Mary Ann
...daughter: Fanny Priscilla
...........son: Elias Henry
...daughter: Nellie Guian
..........son: Ray Leon
..........son: Milton Jay
..........son: William Patten (b. following death of first son named William Patten)

Nick married 2nd wife, Sena Logan, later to be known as Sena Christensen, according to family information related in Charles A. Wilson's book "The Return of the White Indian". I do not know for certain her true name but do know this was a plural marriage arranged by the Church and Nick served time in prison for participating in this marriage. Two known children:

..........son: Wallace (raised by Nick and Matilda from age 2 until his death at abt age 10)
..........son: William "Bill" (raised by Sena until abt age 16, when he went to live with Nick and Matilda)

Children of Nick & 3rd wife, Charlotte "Lottie" Nethercott Wilson:

...son Charles Alma "Charlie" Wilson
......wife of Charlie Dorotha Fern Stark Wilson

...daughter Sara Charlotte Wilson

...son George W. Wilson
......wife of George Edna Earl Harris Wilson

Biography

Elijah Nicholas Wilson (28786017)

His given name was Elijah Nicholas Wilson, born in Illinois in 1842, he was taken to Utah in 1850 with his parents, who were some of the original Mormon pioneers. He would come to live with the Shoshones in Wyoming as a young boy, where he lived and learned from the Great Chief Washakie. His Shoshone name was "Yagaiki", but everyone would come to know the youngster as "the White Shoshone".

As a teenager, now off on his own, Nick Wilson would ride for the Pony Express. After many harrowing experiences in that dangerous profession, he would become an Army Scout, and then an Overland Stage driver. While living in Rexburg he was something of a doctor, caring for many of the children who lost their lives in a diptheria epidemic. In 1889, now in his late forties, Wilson would lead a desperate party of five families over the Teton Pass and into Jackson Hole. It was a rescue mission that saved human lives and cattle. The trip over Teton Pass was about 14 miles and it took 21 days to complete and became the main route into Jackson Hole for settlers coming from Idaho and Utah.

It was here, near the very spot where he delivered those grateful settlers, that Nick Wilson would settle down himself. He would establish the first post office, store and hotel. And he would farm the land and become the new settlement's most renowned citizen. Everyone in the area would come to know and love the man they would call Uncle Nick Wilson. Right there in Wilson, Wyoming.

From a legendary and famous early life as the White Shoshone, to the equally legendary later life of Uncle Nick Wilson, it was quite an adventure for a man that would become a well-known Wonder of Wyoming. Uncle Nick Wilson is interred in the South park cemetery.

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