David WILSON

                         Information for this family taken from (1) family records of Eve lyn
Collard Fidelle of Portland, Oregon, copied by J. R. Gillis who borro wed her
notebooks and scrapbooks, (2) Thompson, History of Pike County, Illin ois, (3)
family records of Jennie Brant Yokem, (4) U. S. census 1840, Pike cou nty,
Illinois (5) Nebo, Illinois will book, 1868-1880.
       David Wilson, Pleasant Hill pioneer, was born Jan 12, 1811.  Hi s parents
had come over from Ireland in 1808, in one of the slow sailing vessel s of those
days.  After a brief stay in the south, they  settled on the Missour i border,
in what is now Lincoln county.  David  Wilson's brother, James Wilson , noted
school teacher on the Missouri frontier, had been born in Ireland an d had
crossed to American with his parents.  He was born about 1793; he die d at
Auburn, Mo., at the age of 97.  The Wilsons in Missouri were closel y associated
with the Sittons of Tennessee, the Virginia Lewises and Porters, th e Cannons
and Gibsons.
       David Wilson (also spelled Willson) married Isaphena Collard a t Troy, Mo.,
Dec  3,  1834, with E. H. Powers, a Lincoln county J. P., officiating .  She was
the second child of John Collard, son of Joseph of the Revolution.  H er mother
was Lydia Cannon, daughter of James Cannon of the Revolution.  Isaphe na was a
younger sister of Felix Alver Collard, who history has been recited , and an
older sister of John J. Collard, a former clerk of the Pike county Il linois
court.  (Thompson, History of Pike County, Illinois, chap 176)
       Wolves, a howling hungry pack, pursued David Wilson and his brid e across
the Mississippi bottoms when they came from Lincoln county, Mo. to fo und a home
in what is now Pleasant Hill township, Pike county, Illinois, in th e early
winter of 1834.  Their first born child, John D. Wilson, born near Pl easant
Hill in 1835 and reared amid the hard conditions of the new country , related
the story of his parents' coming as he had heard it from them.  The b ride of
these experiences was Isaphena Collard, daughter of John and grand-da ughter
of Joseph of the Revolution.
       Wilson and his bride arrived on the Pike county side of the rive r in the
midst of a great snow storm, which set in shortly after they left th e older
settlement in Missouri.  On Christmas day,  soon after they had mad e their
settlement, they partook of a wild turkey which the young husband bro ught down
with his gun from his cabin doorstep.
       Second child of David Wilson and Isaphena Collard was Washingto n J.
Wilson, born in Pleasant Hill township June 10, 1838.  He died July 1 5, 1842.
Third of the children was Nancy E. Wilson, born near Pleasant Hill, J uly 23,
1840.  She married James D. Porter, in Pike county, March 18, 1858, w ith
Justice Samuel H. Galloway officiating.  She died Dec 28, 1874.
       Mary K. Wilson, sixth child, was born in Pike county, June 4, 18 49.  She
married, at Sideview, Marion Lyles, a son of Icie Lyles.  They move d to
California.  Erastus E. Wilson was born in Pike county, Nov 28, 1851 . He died
Sep 26. 1908.  (Thompson, History of Pike County, Illinois chap 177.