Bu request. Source: 1881 Grundy Co., Missouri History Book Edley Wilson, p. 488-89 EDLEY WILSON Was born near Linneus, Linn County, Missouri, January 1st, 1840. He came to Grundy County with his parents when he was seven years old, and settled on a farm near Trenton where he was reared a farmer. His father dying when he was fourteen years old, he was the mainstay of his mother with whom he lived and worked the farm, maintaining her and the younger portion of the family, two brothers and three sisters, until attaining his majority. He afterwards owned and resided upon the farm until 1870. December 20th, 1866, he married Miss Elizabeth Colley, of Grundy county. She is a native of Pennsylvania, born near Pittsburgh, in 1850, and came to Grundy County with her parents when she was twelve years old and settled near Trenton. She was educated in the schools of Trenton, her teachers being her brother, Samuel M. Colley, and Prof. E. 0. Norton. Mr. Wilson, during the late war, was a Union man and was enrolled in the State militia and held himself in readiness for duty, but was called out only once, when he participated in the engagement with bushwhackers at the forks of Grand River, and was taken prisoner and lost two horses. Leaving his farm in 1870 he came to Trenton and with his father-in-law, Peter Colley, rented the Bismark House which they kept up to 1873, then bought the National House, and on Mr. Colley retiring from the business in 1877 he became sole proprietor. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson have two children, William and Minnie, both born in Trenton.