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| Name[6] |
Henry William Wilson |
| Alt Name[6] |
William Henry Wilson |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[2][4] |
12 Nov 1844 |
Wisconsin Territory or Illinois, United Statesnear Galena IL |
| Marriage |
21 Jul 1867 |
Allendale, Ottawa, Michigan, United Statesto Ezubah Zeruah Taylor |
| Census |
1870 |
Allendale, Ottawa, Michigan, United Statesas "Henry and Esubee Wilson"
with Ezubah Zeruah Taylor |
| Census |
1880 |
Allendale, Ottawa, Michigan, United Statesas "Henry and Eseba Wilson"
with Ezubah Zeruah Taylor |
| Census |
1884 |
Allendale (township), Ottawa, Michigan, United Stateswith Ezubah Zeruah Taylor |
| Census |
1894 |
Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, United Statesas "Henry and Isibell Wilson"
with Ezubah Zeruah Taylor |
| Property[3] |
1897 |
Allendale (township), Ottawa, Michigan, United States80A (W 1/2 of NW 1/4 of Section 20) - SE corner of 88th Avenue and Buchanan Street |
| Census |
1900 |
Allendale (township), Ottawa, Michigan, United Stateswith Ezubah Zeruah Taylor |
| Death[1][2][4] |
13 Jan 1915 |
Allendale, Ottawa, Michigan, United States |
| Burial[2][4] |
17 Jan 1915 |
Allendale Township Cemetery, Allendale, Ottawa, Michigan, United StatesLot 111 |
As a young man Henry lived with his relatives in western New York and worked on the Erie Canal. According to his grand-children, after returning to Michigan, he took a steam boat down the Grand River to the Bear or Bass River landing in northwest Allendale Township. There he found and cleared some unoccupied land. Older plat maps (1864, 1876) show this land owned by the Parrish or Pattee families. Northwest Allendale Township was being logged at the time so this was probably uncleared land. Possibly Henry cleared it and farmed it on shares until he could buy it, or possibly he had saved enough money from his work in New York to buy it outright. By 1912 the land had been sold to C R Parrish.
Another possibility that accords with the public land records, is that it was Henry's future father-in-law James Taylor who took a steam boat down the Grand River to the Bear or Bass River landing. The 160A that James Taylor purchased from the US Governement in 1862 is near the Bear River, in the same section where Henry Wilson owned 80A in the late 1800s.
Henry married Ezubah Taylor, youngest daughter of James and Harriet (Brewer) Taylor. Their children reported that it was a happy marriage.
Image Gallery
 Henry Wilson with Milk Wagon References
- ↑ Wilson Family Record, in Nettie (Wilson) Hamstra and Verda (Hamstra) Goudzwaard. Family Records. (Compiled in 1973 - unpublished).
"Henry William Wilson
born Nov. 12, 1843 in Gelena, Ill.
died Jan. 13, 1915 in Allendale, Mi.
married Ezubah Zeruah Taylor July 21, 1867"
Galena is in Northwest Illinois near the Wisconsin border.
Henry Wilson appears in the 1850, 1860, 1880 and 1900 census records born in Wisconsin (still a territory in 1844). In the 1870 census he appears born in Illinois. His death certificate (Nettie Wilson informant) says Wisconsin, however the death certificate of his daughter Hattie (Henry Wilson informant) says Illinois.
It is possible that his birth or baptism was reported in Galena as the nearest city at the time.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Allendale Cemetery [1]
22 Sep 1942.
"WILSON Henry W. Nov. 12, 1844 – Jan. 13, 1915"
- ↑ 1897 Allendale Township Map [2], in Ottawa County Genweb [3]
1897.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Henry W Wilson [4], in Michigan, United States. Death Records, 1897-1920. (Lansing, Michigan, United States: Archives of Michigan).
- Henry William Wilson [5], in Find A Grave.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Probably he was named for his father's cousin William Henry Wilson.
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