Individual Details

Helen Small believed neither of the twins ever married. They are both listed with their mother in the 1900 census. In 1910 and 1920, Jackson Lee appeared alone in Lawrence Co. Apparently more than one Sterling P. Wilson, born in Missouri in 1862 existed. In fact I have found 4 born either 1861 or 1862, and another Sterling P. Wilson, b. 1863 in Louisiana.

1900, Buck Prairie, Lawrence Co MO, p.94A, Olive J. Wilson was head of household. Age 76, born May 1824. She had three children, three living. J. Lee and S. Price, aged 38, were born Nov of 1861, both are still single. Their occupation is given as "Capitalist".

1930 Census. Eureka Springs, Carroll Co, AR, Hh 119
Lewis Ames, 41, married at 22, b. AR
Lillian D., wife, 36, married at 19, b. AR
Charles R., son, 5, b. Kansas
Sterling P. Wilson, Roomer, 68, Single man - never married, b. MO, father b. TN, mother b. KY, Solicitor, Farm Loans. [NOTE: this is where his parents were born!]

Interesting, living in Carroll Co AR in 1902, was Roy Russell - son of the Amelia Russell, Sterling apparently married late in life.

Sterling apparently died in Highwood, Lake Co, Illinois as noted in the Illinois Deaths & Stillbirths, 1916-1947; FamilySearch.org.
He died 7 Jun 1933 and was buried on the 8th of June in Marionville, Lawrence Co, MO. His was born 27 Nov 1861, Marionville, MO and was age 71. A spouse, Amelia Russell, is stated - he would have had to marry her since 1930.

There is also in the same place, a death record for Amelia J. Russell Wilson, age 83y 4m 10, (born abt 1863), died 19 Jun 1946. Father: Pleasant James Russell; mother: Mary Ellen Mayfiled. Spouse: Sterling Price.


Note that this Sterling, still single in 1900, cannot possibly be the man below, married by 1887.

There is this census record in Blackwater, Cooper, MO in 1910 and 1920 for a different Sterling P. Wilson with wife Louise Grotzinger. He died in 1951 still in Blackwater.
1910. Sterling P. Price was 48 (b. 1862) and had been married once for 23 years (m.1887). He lists his birth in MO - his father's in PA; his mother's in KY. He was a farmer. Louise was 48 and they had had 4 children - 3 were living.. She was born in MO - her father in France, her mother in Germany. Listed are John W., 19 and Rosie M., 18.
1920 - Sterling was 58, b. MO, parents b. MO. Farmer. Louise, 57, b. MO, father in France, mother in Germany

This is still a different Sterling P. Wilson, b. in MO, 1861, died in Boise, Idaho in 1941 - his wife was Melvina Potter. They married 1884 in Idaho and Jesse was their second child.
1930 Census. Las Vegas, Clark Co, NE, Hh 72
Albert J. Rauen, age 48, married at age 19, b. NY, Contractor, building
Jessie Rauen, wife, 44 (b. 1886), married at 17 (m.1903), b. MO
Sterling P. Wilson, father-in-law, 68, married at 22, b. MO, parents both b. MO. Farmer

Birth	27 Nov 1861	Lawrence County, Missouri
Death	1933

Father	John Wilson (1813 - 1894)
Mother	Olive Judith "Judy" Perkins (1821 - 1904)
Sibling	Nancy "Nannie" Wilson (1860 - )
Sibling	Jackson Lee Wilson (1861 - 1924)