John Park WILSON

                   The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Volume 122, page 60
Miss Eliza Cummings Wilson. DAR ID Number: 121181 Born in Romney, W. Va.
Descendant of Hon. Benjamin Harrison and of Col. Garrett Van Meter, as follows:  1. John Park Wilson (b. 1833) m. 1860 Elizabeth I. Gibson (1835-84). 2. John P. Wilson (1790-1871) m. 1832 Elizabeth W. Trent (1807-87); David Gibson (1795-1870) m. 1834 Ann M. Van Meter (1804-58). 3. Stephen W. Trent (1769-1853) m. 1794 Elizabeth Bassett Copeland (1776-1844); Isaac Van Meter (b. 1762) m. 1788 Elizabeth Inskeep. 4. David Copeland (1749-1822) m. 2nd 1775 Ann Harrison (1753-1821); Garrett Van Meter m. 1756 Ann Markee Sibley. 5. Benjamin Harrison m. Elizabeth Bassett.  Benjamin Harrison (1726-91) was a delegate to the First and Second Continental Congresses, and was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. He was born in Berkeley; died in Charles City County, Va.
Also No. 99879.
Garret Van Meter (1732-88) served as colonel of Virginia militia. He was born in New York; removed to Fort Pleasant, 1774, where he died in Hardy County, Va.
Also No. 39720.