My Luther...Jake Luther or Luther Jake was born around January 1902 to Gennette "Nettie" Trout and Darious Ivan Wilson in Mcleansboro, Hamilton County, Illinois. Darious and Nettie separated in 1910 where divorce papers were petitioned for in Mt. Vernon, Illinois. Nettie and Luther are found on the 1910 Jefferson Co., Mt. Vernon Census living with her parents. She has several siblings living in the area and I have found several on the 1920 census for the same area but I cannot find Nettie and son Luther. I have Nettie's father's death certificate who died in 1925 the woman informant listed is one Nellie Hallowell (can't be sure) but I believe this to be Nettie who has remarried. Information on the death certificate shows Nellie Hallowell is from Memphis, Tennessee but try as I might I have been unable to locate a Nellie Hallowell in Memphis or any marriage record for a Nettie Trout/ Wilson. Nor can I find either her or son Luther on any further census records after the Mt. Vernon, Jefferson County, Illinois 1910 one. This information was all listed in my great grandfather's (darious) military pension file. He was asking to see his son after he suffered numerous strokes so I don't know how accurate his memory may have been at the time. Darious did remarry but my grandmother nor my father ever knew about the first marriage or that there was a half brother out there. My grandmother was 15 when she married expecting her father to come to her wedding but what she didn't know was another stroke took his life and his sister (grandmother's aunt) chose not to tell his family and my grandmother went to her grave never speaking about her father. I didn't find the information about the first wife and half brother till after she and her full brother had passed away. My father now has peace of mind as to what happened, he was told his mother and uncle were abandoned when his grandfather went off to go fishing and never returned. In fact he was in and out of military hospitals for much of my grandmother's life. This is the jist of what I know about my Luther Jake Wilson...other than Jake is short for Jacob, named after his mother's father Jacob Jake Trout. There is no Luther's on the Wilson line that I can see so I don't know where this comes from. Roberta -----Original Message----- From: wilson-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:wilson-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Jan wilson Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 9:22 PM To: wilson@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [WILSON] DNA Russell County, KY Wilson's This is what I was told about Luther: He had a son named Edgar or Edward who lived on Bernard Creek in Russell County. Edgar had one son and a daughter named Lillian who married a Grider. Lillian had a son named Bobbie and a daughter named Peggy. Edgar would have been a half-brother to my husband's grandfather, James Monroe Wilson. James (Jimmy Roe) was born in 1883. Not sure which was the older brother. It was my intention to try to contact Lillian or her children but soon after I got this information I underwent surgery and treatment for cancer and I just have not gotten back to researching this line. I would love to nail this down. Is your Luther in this time frame? Jan -----Original Message----- From: roberta hall <jhallvoyager@att.net> To: wilson <wilson@rootsweb.com> Sent: Fri, Jan 13, 2012 4:35 pm Subject: Re: [WILSON] DNA Russell County, KY Wilson's Jan can you tell me something about your Luther Wilson? y great grandfather and his wife had a son names either Jake Luther or uther Wilson (depending on which document you look at) I lose track of uther and his mom after the 1910 census. Roberta -----Original Message----- rom: wilson-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:wilson-bounces@rootsweb.com] On half Of Jan wilson ent: Friday, January 13, 2012 10:41 AM o: wilson@rootsweb.com ubject: Re: [WILSON] DNA Russell County, KY Wilson's hanks Betty. I am going to send off for the DNA kit and then we'll see. Still looking or the elusive Luther Wilson. He had a son named Edgar (James Monroe's alf brother) I am told. Maybe he went by Luther but his first name was fficially something else. Jan -----Original Message----- rom: bettyputnam <bwadeputnam@fairpoint.net> o: wilson <wilson@rootsweb.com> ent: Fri, Jan 13, 2012 6:10 am ubject: Re: [WILSON] DNA Russell County, KY Wilson's i Jan & Gregg, an, it's been a long time since we corresponded about our Wilson's. Now ybe we can get back into it. I'll look up and see what I have on your sband's family. Gregg & I have been corresponding also, and maybe by dding nother person to the search, we can find out more. have Wilson's on both my mom & dad's sides of the family, all from Russell unty, KY. They are also related on the Hopper lines. There are so many lson's in Russell, and surrounding counties, but I believe they are robably ll related somewhere along the line. Will email you off-list with ore nfo. In the meantime, if anyone out there have ties to Russell ounty, KY, ou can email me at bwadeputnam@fairpoint.net and we'll all work ogether on his. etty Wade Putnam ndora, OH ---- Original Message ----- om: "Jan wilson" <janwilson.jane@aol.com> : <wilson@rootsweb.com> nt: Friday, January 13, 2012 4:00 AM bject: Re: [WILSON] DNA Gregg: My name is Jan Wilson and I am a co-administrator of the Reynolds and the oses DNA projects (on my mother's side.) I have looked at the Wilson DNA roject and have considered testing my husband, Ron. He was born in ussell County, Kentucky. Ronnie is the grandson of James Monroe Wilson (son of Balzorie Whittle and asper Moses Wilson.) James Monroe Wilson was born on 4-6-1883 in Russell ounty, Kentucky and died 1-27-1964 in Russell Cty. Ky. James Monroe Wilson (they called him Jimmy Roe) married Martha C. Tucker, aughter of Elias Tucker. There is a glitch though - James Monroe was actually 4 years old when alzorie Whittle and Jasper Moses were married. I have been told by older amily members that his father was a fellow named Luther Wilson but my other-in-law told me years ago that he was a Whittle. Whether she said hat because his mother was a Whittle or not I don't know. I believe Jasper Moses was the son of a Moses Brackston Wilson but that ay be irrelevant. Needless to say I investigated the Wilson DNA project as a possible olution to at least find out if my husband is a Whittle or a Wilson but hen I looked at the Wilson DNA project at FTM it was not clear to me that t would be worth participating. I just recently subscribed to the Wilson ailing list and I am happy to see these postings about the DNA project and articularly glad to see a post about the Wilsons in Russell County, entucky. This has helped me make up my mind to go ahead with the testing. I will be looking forward to seeing the results. Have you ever seen any vidence that there was more than the one line of Wilsons in Russell County t that time? Jan Wilson Kings Mills, Ohio (513) 459-9116 -----Original Message----- From: Wilson, Gregg <gw3@evansville.edu> To: wilson <wilson@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thu, Jan 12, 2012 11:04 am Subject: Re: [WILSON] DNA Our Wilson line originated in Virginia, and moved to Russell County, KY in he arly 1800's. We eventually migrated into Warrick County, IN, which is here we till reside. Our line is R1b1a2 and the main haplogroup lassification is M-269. Does this general description fit into any other Wilson's out there? Best Wishes regg Gregory S. 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