Person:Moses Wilkinson (7)

Named after his paternal grandfather.

1880 Comanche Co., TX, census, p.102C, 4th District (E.D. 31), June 2, 1880, Thomas O. Moore: Lina WILKINSON, F 28, sis-in-law, md., keeping house, OH USA USA; Moses, M 36, brother, well boarer, md., IN USA OH; with 29/29, SILVESTER WILKINSON, M 32, head, farmer, IA USA OH; Pricilla, F 32, wife, keeping house, MO KY USA; Effie, F 5, dau, at home, TX IA MO; Mirtie, F 4, dau, at home, TX IA MO; Lela, F 3, dau, at home, TX IA MO; Walter, M 1, son, at home, TX IA MO; Rufus PAYNE, M 12, st-son, works on farm, TX IL MO; Willie F. PAYNE, M 11, st-son, at home, TX IL MO; Wm. H. SCOTT, M 59, father-in-law, widowed, minester, KY KY KY; EVIN LOVE, M W 30, cousin,** single, laborer, CANADY USA USA.

• • Sylvester and Moses Wilkinson's mother was Harriet Bell Jones, dau. of Evan W. Jones; Evan Love's mother was Bell's sister, Mary Jane; therefore Evan Love and Sylvester and Moses Wilkinson were first cousins.

1900 Polk Co., MO, census, p.152B, Fair Play City, Madison Twp., June 21, 1900, John C. Smith: High St., 345/351, MOSES WILKINSON, head, W M, Oct 1843, 56, md. 22 yrs., IN OH VA, farmer, owns farm free of mortgage, farm schedule #263; Angiline, wife, W F, Oct 1851, 48, mother of 1 child, 1 living, OH OH KY; Earl, son, W M, July 1881, 18, IA IN OH, farm laborer.

1910 Polk Co., MO, census, p.191B, Madison Twp., Fair Play village, April 16, 1910, William W. Coy: 80/82, MOSES WILKINSON, head, M W 66, md. 32 yrs., IN OH OH, farmer; Lina, wife, F W 58, mother of 1 child, 1 living, OH OH KY.

Moses Wilkinson, born in New Town, Indiana, Oct. 17, 1943 [sic], died Fairplay, MO May 23, 1913, went to Iowa with parents quite young and lived there until 1865, then to California till 1871. Returned to Kansas City, then to Stephenville, Texas. He then moved to Calif. From Calif. to Troy, Iowa. In 1877, he married Angeline Downing and settled in Halfway, MO (Polk County), then Fairplay a year later. 1 son (Earl), 1 brother (S. Wilkinson), and 5 sisters. He was the 4th child of 11 children. Burial in Barren Creek Cemetery. --transcription courtesy Cyd Pierce <cydpierce@@voyager.net>, e-mail, May 15, 2000. [11 children includes half-sister Frances, his father's first child]

1913 May 23, Moses Wilkinson, farmer, married, b. Oct. 17, 1843, New Town, Indiana, son of John Wilkinson and Harriett Jones (informant, Earl D. Wilkinson, Fair Play, MO), died in Madison Twp., Polk Co., MO, buried Barren Creek Cemetery, May 24, 1913. --Missouri Certificate of Death #17422, http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/deathcertificates/

1918 Sept. 22, Angeline Wilkinson, widow, b. Oct. 9, 1851, Locust Grove, OH, dau. of Robert B. Downing, b. Locust Grove, OH, and Eda M. Toll, b. in Kentucky (informant, Earl D. Wilkinson, Fair Play, MO), died in Madison Twp., Polk Co., MO, buried Akord Cemetery, Sept. 23, 1918. --Missouri Certificate of Death #30207, http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/deathcertificates/

LDS Ancestral File(s), AF92-106944, AF92-106974, Lucille Barnes Gano, Keosauqua, IA 52565.