When Francis Marion Wilson was born on 26 August 1849, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, his father, Thomas Green Wilson, was 33 and his mother, Helen Copley, was 26. He married Hannah J Vest about 1875, in Payson, Utah, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. He immigrated to Utah, United States in 1850 and lived in Salem, Utah, Utah, United States in 1900 and Utah, Utah, United States in 1920. In 1880, at the age of 31, his occupation is listed as farmer. He died on 30 January 1926, in Payson, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Payson, Utah, Utah, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1850: Mexican Cession, Untied States 1850: Utah, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Utah, Utah, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
English: from the Middle English personal name Will + patronymic -son ‘son of Will’. Will was a very common medieval short form of William . This surname is also very common among African Americans.
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