MySource:Genebug2/Sullivan County Democrat

Friday, July 24, 1857

DIED On Saturday, the 18th inst., at the residence of E. Johnson, in Cass township, Sullivan co., Ind., Mrs. SUSANNAH WILSON, in the 94th year of her age. The deceased was undoubtedly the oldest person in this county. She was born near Moorefield, in Hampshire (now Hardy) county, Virginia. She was married to JOHN WILSON, a Revolutionary Soldier, in 1781, immediately after his return from the War. She removed to East Tennessee in the year 1784, when it was a wilderness, and resided there until 1831, when she came to this county, where she has resided, with her son, Mr. ADAM WILSON, ever since. Mrs. WILSON was very stout and hardy, having ridden on horseback all the way from Virginia to her new home in Tennessee, a distance of about 600 miles, carrying an infant in her arms; subsequently she made several trips there and back in the same manner. She had a good memory, and retained a vivid recollection of many incidents of the Revolutionary war, having arrived at mature years when it broke out. Her health continued remarkably good, and she might have lived several years longer, but for a severe fall she received a few weeks ago.