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The marriages in this book consist of a complete list of 3,600 brides and grooms, with places of residence, marriage dates, names of officiating ministers, and page references to the original record books for the period 1789 to 1840.
Lewis Wilson was born about 1764, possibly in Pennsylvania. His parents are not listed. He moved from Butler County, Pennsylvania to Posey County, Indiana with his children in 1817. His wife may have been Mary Wilson who was probably deceased before the family moved to Indiana. They were the parents of seven children. Descendants have lived in Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, California and elsewhere in the United States.
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Elias Baker (1760-1843) was born in Baltimore County, Maryland. His parents moved from Maryland to North Carolina before 1777. In 1780, he married Sarah Holbrook (ca. 1760-1858) who was born in N. C. They moved to Illinois, but returned to Franklin County, Georgia where both of them died. Their descendants and relatives migrated from Georgia through Arkansas to Texas, along the GAARTX trail.
The cemeteries of Winston County contain the ancestors of the descendants who now populate the county. The earliest settlers, Civil War soldiers, early county officials and politicians, merchants, tradesmen, farmers, and their familes are there. Without their efforts to carve an existence out of the Winston County wildnerness, the rest of us simply would not be here. The history of the county was written in the cemeteries found across the county. Volume 2 of this two volume series covers Winston County Cemeteries L through W beginning with the Little Cemetery and ending with the Wolfpen Cemetery. This volumes also contains a list of missing or destroyed cemeteries. The book contains dozens of pictures of the cemeteries plus hundreds of annotations which include sites of unmarked graves plus the company and unit of every known Civil War era soldier, both Union and Confederate. The book concludes with a full name index. This book is vital to any serious student of Winston County genealogy and history.