Aaron Wilson

    Aaron Wilson, a native of Russell County, Kentucky, and the youngest in a family of nine children born to James and Elizabeth (Fox) Wilson, was born March 18, 1827. His father was a native of Virginia, moved to Russell County, Kentucky, when twenty-five years old and from there in 1858, removed to Warrick County, Indiana locating on a farm in Lane Township, where he resided until his death, September 21, 1873. His mother was a native of North Carolina and April 28, 1863, died in this county. Mr. Wilson married Martha Stephenson for his second wife, and this lady yet survives him.

    Aaron Wilson had but little or no educational advantages in boyhood but since becoming a man he has read and studied until he now possesses a good practical education. Coming to this county with his father he bought land in Lane Township where he lived fourteen years. Early in 1873 he moved to his present place of residence. He is one of Warrick County's best farmers and is the owner of 446 acres of good land which is well stocked and under a good state of cultivation.

    November 6, 1846, he wedded Catharine Warner, who died May 3, 1853, after bearing three children, all deceased. To his marriage with Tabitha Bowling, which was solemnized March 2, 1854, three children were born, only one now living. The mother died March 25, 1860. Margaret Flynn, his third wife, to whom he was wedded September 28, 1863, bore him one child and died March 31, 1880. November 22, 1882, he married Dora Cromeans, his present wife, and by her is the father of one daughter. Mr. Wilson is a Democrat in politics and religiously is a believer in the Baptist faith.

Source: History of Warrick, Spencer, and Perry Counties, Indiana, By: Goodspeed Bros. & Co., 1885.