When Drusilla Swearingen was born on 7 November 1758, in Frederick, Maryland, British Colonial America, her father, John S. Swearingen Sr, was 38 and her mother, Catherine Mary Stull, was 32. She married Captain John Wilson on 25 October 1775, in Virginia, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 10 sons and 8 daughters. She lived in Lewis, Kentucky, United States in 1810. She died in 1826, in Fearsville, Christian, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Precinct 1 Ridge, Menifee, Kentucky, United States.