WI BIO - Kenosha Co - WILSON, Ann, Mrs. 

History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin. Chicago: Western 
Historical, 1879, p 726

Mrs. Ann WILSON, Section 7, Brighton Township, Kenosha County, Wisconsin, P. 
O. Burlington [Racine County, Wisconsin], was born 10 August 1811 in 
Scotland. Her husband, William WILSON, was born in Scotland in September 
1811. They [Michael and Ann WILSON] went to Chautauqua County, New York, 
where he engaged in farming, and lived there until 1841. They then they came 
to [the Territory of] Wisconsin, and located in Brighton Township [Kenosha 
County]. William WILSON engaged in farming and followed it up to the time of 
his death, 15 April 1870.

They [William and Ann WILSON] were married in May 1835 in Scotland, and had 
six children, only four now living: (1) Anna, born in August 1837, who 
married Andrew PATTERSON, a resident of Salem Township, Kenosha County, 
Wisconsin; (2) William, born in February 1840, who was killed in the army at 
the battle of Chickamauga [the second bloodiest battle of the Civil War, 
fought 19-20 September 1863]; (3) James, born in 1842, who married and is 
living in the State of Missouri; (4) John, born in July 1845, who died in 
the late war, in 1865; (5) Margaret, born o3 June 1849, now teaching school 
in Brighton Township, Kenosha County, Wisconsin; and (6) Robert, born 28 
December 1851. They [Mrs. Ann WILSON and her family, since William is 
deceased] own eighty acres of fine land [in Brighton Township], barns, a 
comfortable house, and have a pleasant home. 

Submitted by Cathy Kubly