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From Page 290, Adrian MM:

1849, 6, 9 WILSON, Michael S. rec mbship (Adrian PM)

1855, 6, 7 WILSON, Michael S. dis (Tecumseh PM)

1871, 11, 9 WILSON, Michael and wife, Catherine Martha, and their three ch: Julia Ann, Martin W., and John G. and their minor ch: Daniel, Mary, William, Dorothy, Christina C., and Elizabeth Emma Jane rec mbship

1874, 8, 13 WILSON, Michael dis

1879, 5, 8 WILSON, Martin W. resigned mbship

From Page 424, Tecumseh MM:

1923, 6, 15, BETZ, Edna married Amos Dewitt WILSON

From Page 448, Tecumseh MM:

1924, 12, 15, SPEERMAN*, Geraldine Jane, dau of Charles and Angeline, born at Tecumseh

1937, 3, 24, SPEERMAN*, Geraldine Jane was dropped**

1915, 12, 30, SPREEMAN, Charles married Angeline WILSON

From Page 452, Tecumseh MM:

1893, 9, 26, WILSON, John G. and Michael rocf Adrian MM, MI

1894, 2, 21, WILSON, Lucy, wife of John G., req mbship

1894, 11, 21 WILSON, Michael was dropped***

1899, 9, 8, WILSON, Amos Dewitt, son of John G. and Lucy, was born

1904, 4, 27, WILSON, Robert and wife**** Angeline req mbship

1915, 12, 30, WILSON, Angeline married Charles SPREEMAN

1917, 9, 26, WILSON, John appt Elder

1923, 6, 15, WILSON, Amos Dewitt, son of John G. and Lucy, married Edna BETZ, b. Blissfield, MI

1923, 12, 26, WILSON, Lucy died

1925, 3, 25, WILSON, Edna BETZ rolf Blissfield, MI

1928, 4, 21, WILSON, Edna BETZ died

1929, 3, 20, WILSON, John G. died

1930, 9, 3, WILSON, Delia HALDY rocf Highland Ave. MM, Columbus, OH

1934, 5, 22, WILSON, Amos Dewitt glt ______*****

1937, 3, 24, WILSON, Robert was dropped

1949, 1, 24, WILSON, Annabelle Lee and Lynn Harold recommended for mbship

From Pages 517-518, APPENDIX S:

Page 517: List of members set off to TECUMSEH MM 1893, 9, 26 from ADRIAN MM

Page 518: WILSON, John G., Michael

APPENDIX E. ABBREVIATIONS

appt -- not given. Believe it stands for appoint, appointed.

b -- born.

ch -- child, children.

dau -- not given. Believe it stands for daughter. Their abbriviation for daughter is dt.

dis -- disowned, disowned for.

glt -- not given. gl is given standing for granted letter. Believe glt stands for granted letter to.

mbship -- not given. Believe it stands for membership. Their abbreviation for membership is mbrp.

MM -- monthly meeting.

PM -- not given. This abbreviation could stand for Provisional Meeting or Provisional Member.

rec -- receive, received.

req -- not give. Believe it stands for request, requested.

rocf -- received on certificate from.

rolf -- received on letter from.

There are many more abbreviations in Appendix E, but only the above ones appear in our information of concern.

NOTES: All of the "Surnames Covered" are those on the particular pages of interest in the book.

* This is an obvious mispelling and should be SPREEMAN as spelled a couple of entries further on. Angeline WILSON did marry Charles SPREEMAN and is the daughter of John G. and Lucy WILSON.

** The original record also shows that Angeline SPREEMAN was also dropped on this date.

*** This is only 13 days after he was convicted of assault and battery on his 90 year old mother.

**** "Wife" is an obvious error because Angeline WILSON is Robert WILSON's sister. Robert was not married until June 15, 1914 and then to Bessie OSWALD.

***** The original record has additional entries as:

                1934, 4, 25,  Amos WILSON and Delia WILSON submitted letters of withdrawal.

                1934, 5, 23,  Amos WILSON and Delia WILSON sent letters dropping them.

I was privaledged to have had the opportunity to read the original monthly meeting minutes in the basment of the Tecumseh Friends Church in the summer of 1996. I could not find all that were included in the book, but I did find those after about 1900. To my great surprise I found out that my dad, Amos D. Wilson was the Monthly Meeting Clerk, and thus wrote up the entries from January 28, 1925 through November 23, 1932. He did have a couple of absences such as when his first wife, Edna died. He was elected MM Clerk for the coming year in the December 24, 1924 meeting. This explains why there is so much detail about the WILSON family on page 452 of the book. Most of the normal other entries do not have as much total detail, especially about the deaths.