-----Original Message----- From: mary worthington <worthmar@netins.net> To: Wilson-Network-L-request@rootsweb.com <Wilson-Network-L-request@rootsweb.com> Date: Saturday, November 06, 1999 5:08 PM Subject: Fw: William Wilson -----Original Message----- From: mary worthington <worthmar@netins.net> To: mkitchen@juno.com <mkitchen@juno.com> Date: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 7:52 AM Subject: Fw: William Wilson I'm sending this autobiographical scetch to the list in case it is helpful to any one. Nancy Stice Bond was sister to Dianna Stice Watt, my great great great grandmother, and one of her other sisters Sarah (Sally) Stice Simmons was my great great grandmother. My great grandparents, Benjamin Franklin Watt and Arminda Caroline Simmons were second cousins. Mary Watt Worthington in Illinois -----Original Message----- From: mary worthington <worthmar@netins.net> To: Wilson-Network-D-request@rootsweb.com <Wilson-Network-D-request@rootsweb.com> Date: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 2:07 PM Subject: William Wilson I'm sending this story to the list in the hope it will help someone. The subject is the daughter of Andrew Stice and Nancy Green Wilson. Nancy Stice Terry Bond. Nancy is the grandaughter of William Wilson and Nancy Green Wilson. A History Of Her Family by Nancy Green Stice Bond dated April 30, 1904 Grandpa, William Wilson, and his brother, James came from Scotland, the latter being one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Grandpa William Wilson and his wife, Nancy Green Wilson, settled at an early day in what is now called North Carolina, Rowan County, and lived and died there. Raised his family until the Revolutionary War, then enlisted and served as Captain through the war. Their religion was known as "Old School Baptist." Nancy Wilson was born in 1770 and she could remember well when the Tories came and plundered her father's home. After they had taken all they thought they wanted, her sister Sally found that she had a white fur hat left, which was wrapped in paper and hung on a peg in the wall. She remarked, "I am going to take my hat down, for the next time they come they will take it." She had no sooner put it on her head than an officer came back and said "You have got my butcher knife." She said, "I have not seen it," and he snatched her hat off and away he went. Grandpa was home on a furlough. He had to hide in the woods in the day time and come home at night. He had a hole in the wall that he would run his hat along, and if all was still he would come, if not he would go and hide. Their eldest son went into the Indian war and was a Wagon Master. His name was Thomas Wilson. He was caught in a raid, and never found again. It was supposed that he was drowned in a stream, as there were no bridges then. He lived on the old home place, where his family grew up. Andy Stice married Nancy Wilson in 1789 in North Carolina, Rowan County. In 1790, their first child, Robert Elmore Stice was born . Then my father took a notion to go to old Kentucky, to what is now called Warren County, near Bowling Green on Green River. They traveled on pack horses, there being in all about twenty-five men and women. Andrew Stice's, younger brother , came with them. Two girls whose mother was dead also came with them. one was married; the other was Ruth McCracken. After they had been in the territory a while David Stice and Ruth McCracken were married and raised a family of four children. They lived and died near Bowling Green, Kentucky. Andrew and Nancy Stice were the parents of thirteen children, Robert Elmore Stice, Dianna Stice Watt, Sally Stice Simmons, Katron Stice Turner, Esther Stice Collier, Dice Stice, infant, William Wilson Stice, Nancy Green Stice Bond, John Stice who died when about six months old, Charles Stice, Andrew Stice, David Frier Stice, James Watt Stice, who died when he was about eleven years old Grandpa and Grandma Stice came from Germany, and belonged to the nobility. They were Methodists. Grandpa Stice had one daughter , Katron Stice, who married William Collins in Kentucky at an early date. They raised seven children. The Indians broke out and killed his wife and all the children. Nancy Green Stice Terry Bond was born in 1807, on September 23rd, in Warren County, near Bowling Green, near Green River, Kentucky. She lived there until she was nine years old when her father emigrated to Illinois Territory in October 1816. In 1818, October 18th, her father died. She lived with her mother until she was 19 years old, when she was married to Andrew Terry in Sinclair County, on May 10th,1827. She had four children, two girls and two boys. Then Andrew Terry died. In 1836 she went back to her mother, June 28th, in Madison County. Her baby died August 12, 1836. Then, October 10, she landed at her brother-in-laws, James Simmons, in Warren County IL near Greenbush. She stayed there until January 25th, 1844 when she was married to John C. Bond. She was his third wife. He had in his charge his mother and two sets of children, one child by his first wife, and two by the second, and she has three children of her own. She bore him two children, both of shom are still ! living. Cordelia Staat, with whom she makes her home, near Greenbush Illinois and Cansada Campbell, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Then to add to the number of their already complicated family they took in a boy to raise. In a period of 38 years they had the care of 40 children, besides their own, eight in number. In 1830, on Saturday before the third Sunday in May she related her experience and was received into the church and baptized the following Sunday, by what was called the United Baptists in Sinclair County, Richland Church before the split. William Kinney immersed her there. In 1838 she put her letter in Apple Creek Church, Morgan County, and in 1840 she transferred it to Greenbush in Newhope Church, on Saturday before the third Sunday in March, and there it still remains. (Aunt Nancy died when she was 98 years old.) Written by Mrs.. Serena Bowen, April 30, 1904.