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State of Service: VA
Qualifying Service: Colonel / Patriotic Service
Patriot contemporary stone, upright with bronze plaque
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The Old Baptist Cemetery was combined with the Masonic and IOOF Cemeteries to create the Bridgeport Cemetery
Author: Michael B. Gunn
Born on November 30, 1747, Shenandoah. Virginia to William (1722-1801) and Elizabeth Blackburn (1725-1806) Wilson. He served in the Expedition against Lord Dunmore 1777, Took trail to avenge massacre in Tygarts Valley providing Valuable service in Indian warfare, He was captain of the militia and later was colonel. He married 1)Ann Ruddell (1754-1795), 2) Phoebe Ann Davisson (1777-1849); children: William, Stephen, Benjamin, Sarah, Elizabeth, Ann, Archibald, John, Cornelius and others. For several years he was delegate to the Virginia Assembly. In 1789 he and his brother John were delegates to the convention ratifying the Constitution of the United States. Upon the formation of Harrison County in 1784 he became justice of the peace and clerk of the county court, continuing t o serve for thirty years. By the act of the Virginia Legislature, when Randolph County was formed in 1786, it was ordered that the first court be held in his house. He Died on December 2, 1827 in Harrison Co., WVA and buried at the Old Brick Church of Bridgeport, Clarksburg, Harrison Co., WVA His opinion of Cornstalk as an orator often quoted. Ref: Natl. No 49220, Vol. 50, p 98, D. A. R. Lin. Fur infor Jane Dowd Dailey. SAR Patriot Index Edition III (CD: PP2210, Progeny Publ., 2002) plus data to 2004. No stone.
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