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From: "Norma Roberts" <>
Subject: Re: [MOHICKOR] Wilson's of Hickory Co
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 22:59:47 -0500
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You definetly found my line I was looking for. I had Olin married to Helen
Herndon from family info. And I found the birth date in census for Finis as
Oct 1863. Thank you so very much for finding them.
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From: "Linda Crawford" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 9:27 PM
Subject: Re: [MOHICKOR] Wilson's of Hickory Co


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> It is very likely that the F was changed to an L. Census takers were not
> always the best at what they were doing. They even took information from
> neighbors or children in the family. If you use and index or transcribed
> printed version there is always the chance of a mistake. I was looking for
> the given name of Maclin and could not find it. I ordered the microfilm
> and sure enough he was there, but the transcribed record said Martin.
> At Mt. zion I found a F. W. Wilson 18 Oct. 1863-2 Aug. 1900. I don't see
> anyone that looks like it would be his wife. I did find Forrest H. 24 Mar
> 1935-29 July 1935, son of Olin and Helen. I found a Helen Herndon Wilson,
> 21 Oct 1901-11 May 1974. I can't tell if they belong together.
> I hope this will help and sorry I couldn't find Finus/Linus for sure.
> Linda
>
> --- On Sat, 3/21/09, Norma Roberts <> wrote:
>
> From: Norma Roberts <>> Subject: Re: [MOHICKOR]
> Wilson's of Hickory Co
> To:
> Date: Saturday, March 21, 2009, 6:10 PM
> >From another source about the goodrich family it states
> that the Linus
> Wilson that I found in census records could have been named
> Finis Wilson.
> The history says that Anna Brownlee married Finis Wilson.
> Could he be Finis
> and I mistook him for Linus in census?????
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