Mrs. Rachel Wilson, p. 1093

MRS. RACHEL WILSON (widow of Thomas Wilson, of Somerset township) was born November 9, 1833, in Washington county, Penn., and is a representative of one of the oldest families of the county. She is a daughter of Nicholas Peese, a native of this county, born in 1812, who when a young man was united in marriage with Elizabeth Wallar, who was born in 1806. After his marriage Mr. Peese settled on a farm where children were born to their union as follows: Rachel (the lady of whom this sketch is written), Lydia, Lawrence (farming in Somerset township), George W. (farming in South Strabane township), William (an agriculturist of Hardin county, Ohio), Andrew (a farmer of Hardin county, Ohio), Martha A. (wife of Homer Vaughn, also of Hardin county, Ohio), Mary E., Nancy (married to George Wygandt, a farmer of South Strabane township) and Nicholas. The father died in 1877, in South Strabane township, the mother in 1885; both were members of the Pigeon Creek Presbyterian Church.

Rachel Peese grew to womanhood in the home of her parents, and on June 24, 1856, gave her hand in marriage to Thomas Wilson, a farmer, who was born December 16, 1835, in Washington county, Penn., a son of James and Mary (Van Eman) Wilson. He died December 3, 1878. In religious faith he was a member of the Presbyterian Church, of which Mrs. Wilson is also a member.

Text taken from page 1093 of:
Beers, J. H. and Co., Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893).

Transcribed February 1997 by Karen Souhrada of Pittsford, NY as part of the Beers Project.
Published February 1997 on the Washington County, PA USGenWeb pages at http://www.chartiers.com/.

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