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General Andrew WILSON
(Abt 1819 –1849)

 

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1. Sarah Mariah SWITZLER

General Andrew WILSON 3 4
  • Born: Abt 1819, prob Chariton County, Missouri, USA
  • Marriage (1): Sarah Mariah SWITZLER on 30 December 1840 in Saline County, Missouri, USA 1 2 3
  • Died: 14 February 1849, California, USA about age 30
  • Buried: 1849, Hangtown (Placerville), California, USA 5

bullet   Another name for Andrew was Anthony WILSON.

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bullet  Death Notes

"In 1848 Mr. Wilson went to the mines amid the mountains of California and was there stricken with the fever, dying in 1849."  — from "Portrait and Biographical Record of Portland and Vicinity Oregon"

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bullet  Recorded Events in His Life

  • He resided at Settled on a Donation Land Claim a mile or so up the river from the Brown Claim.
  • He was educated at graduate of Yale. 5
  • He owned Donation Land Claim along the Columbia River in Multnomah County, Oregon, USA.
  • He has conflicting birth information of 1815 and Virginia, USA. 5
  • Moved: Crossed the plains in the famous "lost" wagon-train of 1845, 1845.
  • Fact: Went to the gold rush in California, in 1848.
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Andrew married Sarah Mariah SWITZLER, daughter of John SWITZLER and Elizabeth Cary LEE, on 30 December 1840 in Saline County, Missouri, USA.1 2 3 (Sarah Mariah SWITZLER was born on 17 July 1818 in Virginia, USA 6 and died on 6 April 1852 in Oregon, USA 6.)

bullet  Recorded Events about their Marriage


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bullet   Sources   bullet

  1. Ancestry.com, Saline County, Missouri Marriages, 1820 – 81, Vols. 1-4 [database online] (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2001. Original data: Ellsberry, Elizabeth Prather, comp. Saline County, Missouri Marriage Records, 1820 – 81. Chillicothe, MO: Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry, circa 1965.).
  2. Dodd, Jordan, Missouri Marriages to 1850 [database on-line] (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1997. Original data: Electronic transcription of marriage records held by the individual counties in Missouri).
  3. Kirsty M. Haining.
  4. Gertrude Brown Smith and Beulah M. Springstead, Our Colonial Lines: Powell, Eaton, Rice, Pettengill, Collver, White (c) 1992, p. 95. This is the 3rd edition of a family-published book on genealogy.
  5. Portrait and Biographical Record of Portland and Vicinity Oregon: Containing Original Sketches of many well known Citizens of the Past and Present (Chapman Publishing Company: Chicago, 1903.).
  6. Gertrude Brown Smith and Beulah M. Springstead, Our Colonial Lines: Powell, Eaton, Rice, Pettengill, Collver, White (c) 1992, page 99. This is the 3rd edition of a family-published book on genealogy.
  7. Gertrude Brown Smith and Beulah M. Springstead, Our Colonial Lines: Powell, Eaton, Rice, Pettengill, Collver, White (c) 1992. This is the 3rd edition of a family-published book on genealogy.


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