Isaac Wilkinson came among us in 1828, and settled on a piece of land, west ½ of northwest 1/4 of section 4, bought by John Cahoon, his son-in-law, in June of that year. At an early day he commenced making brick on the flats of the Tonguish creek. The family were highly respectable and morally upright, and mostly members of the Baptist church. He died in the spring of 1851. Of his wife I have no recollection. His daughter "Seny" was housekeeper for the family after her mother’s death; she died many years ago.
Carlisle T. Wilkinson was the oldest son of Isaac Wilkinson, that I have any definite knowledge of, though there were older children living elsewhere. He was a shoemaker by trade, though in later years he manufactured shingles. He had three wives, by the last of whom he had one or more children. He had several places of residence; his last, in Nankin, was on the land my father sold to Dr. Adams, on the northwest corner of his farm. About 1857 he sold out and removed elsewhere. He died a few years ago in northern Ohio.
Alvah Wilkinson son of Isaac Wilkinson, was a young man in my childhood, and worked for my father. In after years he was a frequent visitor at our fireside. He was genial in the social circle. He was a Methodist, while the rest of his family were Baptists. He was a good singer, after the old, unscientific sort, and sang the old Methodist melodies in a style that made him a welcome guest in the congregation or in the fireside circle. He married Miss Almyra Bush in 1840, and located on the northeast 1/4 of northeast 1/4 of section 9. He farmed it on a small scale, made baskets and sash, and worked at odd jobs for his neighbors. He was moderate in his enterprises, and the accumulations of his life were small. In his later years, he drifted into Second Adventism and left the Methodist church. He died in recent years at his home near the Nankin mill. His wife survived him but a few weeks.
Isaac Wilkinson, Jr. lived in the old homestead many years after his father died, but subsequently sold and removed to a farm in the vicinity of Ypsilanti where he still resides if living. There were three younger brothers.
Ransom Wilkinson died within the last few months, on a small plat of land formerly belonging to my father’s farm, on which he had resided a few years. His places of residence had been numerous, and his accumulations of property small.
Smith Wilkinson married, lived in various places, and died many years ago under middle age.
Brahman Wilkinson the youngest son of Isaac Wilkinson, Sr., injured himself by some violent physical labor and died young and unmarried at his fathers house, of abscess in the side.
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