NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11191 ADAIR CO – JOHN H. WILSON – Wilson, Coats, Grissom, Rowe, Miller, VanZant, Royse, Blair, Hopkins, Stone #11191: Kentucky Genealogy and Biography Volume V, Battle-Perin-Kniffin, 4th ed. Adair Co. JOHN H. WILSON, a native of Adair County, and a son of David and Fanny (Coats) Wilson, was born August 20, 1841. David Wilson, born December 1, 1797,. Was a farmer, owning his own farm and stock. He married Miss Fanny Coats in 1826, a daughter of Alex and Lucy Coats, natives of the Old Dominion. By this marriage he became the father of six children: Minerva J. (wife of E. Grissom), Sally M., Clove Ann and Dicie Norticia (who are dead), Mellisa F. (deceased wife of William Rowe) and J. H. David Wilson was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and departed this life December 31, 1872. His widow, also a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, died in the eighty-first year of her age, in December, 1870. John Wilson, the grandfather of John H., was a native of the Old Dominion, lived near Richmond, and was born about 1762. He was a tiller of the soil during his life, and immigrated to the “dark and bloody ground,” where he entered a tract of land, a built a cabin. Here he lived and cultivated about 200 acres. His marriage to Miss Sarah Miller occurred in Virginia and they were the parents of eight children: Samuel, David, Andrew, Miller, Washington, Charles, Dicie (Van Zant) and Milton, all dead. The death of John Wilson occurred in 1843, that of his wife, prior to that time. The Wilson family are of English-Irish origin. John H. Wilson in youth acquired only a limited education in the common schools of the county. His early life, until twenty years of age, was spent in farming at home with his father, but in September, 1861, he enlisted in Company D, Thirteenth Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, Federal service. He served three years, participating in many of the principal battles, and received two slight wounds during that time. He was a non-commissioned officer, and served mostly in the commissary department. He was mustered out of the service and received an honorable discharge in 1864, and will receive a pension for injuries received in a runaway while in the army. Mr. Wilson, after returning home, began life with no property, but immediately bought a place of 244 acres in the woods. This he has added to and sold off from at different times, until it now contains 150 acres. Here he has built a good residence, stables and barns, and placed his farm in a high state of cultivation. Mr. Wilson was married in March, 1865, to Miss Lucy M. Blair, a daughter of John and Betsy (Royse) Blair, native Kentuckians. John Blair was a son of Wm. And Lucy (Hopkins) Blair, natives of South Carolina, and Betsy Royse was a daughter of William and Mary (Stone) Royse, the former a Kentuckian, the latter a Virginian. William Royse was a son of Solomon Royse, one of the first settlers of Kentucky. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson are the parents of eight children: Norticia, Alice, Roofie, Ora, Ada, Annie (deceased), Altie and another deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson are both members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in politics Mr. Wilson is a member of the Republican party. KYBIOGRAPHIES Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybiographies KYRESEARCH Archives:http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kyresearch