This is a repeat of a family I am still researching! This information comes from the Orange County California Genealogical Society Quarterly Volume III Number 4 December 1966 pages 140 - 147. "The Samuel Thomas Wilson Story" This story is told by Samuel Thomas Wilson who married Sarah Alice Irwin. Samuel was born 5 Oct. 1833 in Elizabeth Twp., Allegheny, PA and died 20 Dec. 1902 in Illinois. His parents are: Samuel Thomas Wilson and Susanna Poe McClanahan. Of my great-grandfather I have no definite knowledge except that his name was Thomas Wilson. He descended from or was in some way related to some branch of the Stewart family. He left numerous family in Adams County near Harrisburg, some of whom - John, Hugh, Samuel and Jane - afterwards located in Allegheny County. Names of different families who were own cousins of my father were: Rankin, Patterson, Reynolds, Parkhill and Burns. My frandfather, Samuel Wilson, married Elizabeth, daughter of Jeremiah Morrow (Murray). She is the aunt of the late governor, Jeremiah Morrow of Ohio. She was a direct descendent of the Erskine family. He then relates a story that can be found in Historic Pittsburgh page 38 of Old and New Westmoreland Volume 3 by John N. Boucher. It tells of a story of Henry Erskine and Marion Halcro of her live burial. Samuel died around 1824, he was incapacitated for military service on account of having a crippled arm. Samuel and Elizabeth were married about the 1770s near McConnel's Town, Lancaster (now Adams), PA by the Rev. Dobbyn. They had nine children: Isabel, Sarah, Thomas, Elizabeth, Mary, Jeremiah, Samuel, Jane and Martha. Isabel never married and lived at home until after her father's death. then Elizabeth (Morrow) Wilson, Isabel and Jeremiah moved to an adjoining farm. Isabel became an invalid from a rupture caused by lifting. Sarah married Andrew Boyd, 7 children: Dinah, Wilson, Elizabeth, John, Jeremiah Morrow, Andrew and Isabel. Thomas Wilson married Rebecca Berryman, an orphan giel who lived with the James Reynolds'. They had 11 children: James, Rachel, Nancy, Samuel, Morrow, Elizabeth, Dempsy, William, Sarah, Francis and Frances (twins). Elizabeth married Alexander Frew. 2 children: Samuel and Jame. Samuel Frew became a lawyer. Mary Wilson married at age 40 to John McIntyre, an Irishman, about 20 years younger than herself. No children mentioned. Jeremiah Morrow Wilson "Uncle Jeremy" was a blacksmith at Thomas Burns (a cousin) boutht the adjoining farm to his fathers with brother Samuel, he moved his shop and his mother and sister, Isabel and a cousin, Aunt Jane Hill. Jane Wilson married her cousin, Thomas Reynolds. The story ends without naming the spouse of Samuel or Mary Wilson, but through a lot of research I find reference to Samuel's marriage to Susanna Poe McClanahan in J. V. Thompson Journals. I will continue with another mailing on the family of Samuel Thomas Wilson and Susanna Poe McClanahan. This story was contributed by my second cousin, M. Patricia Humphreys by permission of Mrs. Mitchell Johnston of Piper City, Illinois. If anyone knows of the Johnston family, please contact me as this story was not printed in full and I would like to see more of it! Debbie Callison