Individual Details

Birth

Dates of birth and death from her tombstone.

Marriage

William Wilson, [M3F7-NPC], born 25 August 1777, was twice married. His first wife died in England, and his second died in Avon township according to the "Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio" page 672. A marriage record dated 25 Dec 1803 documents the union of William Wilson of Long Buckby to the widow Elizabeth Wilson of Yelvertoft [M3F7-NPG]. Her date of birth is unknown, but she must have died about 1815. His second wife, also named Elizabeth [GS9Y-3ZY], 1782-1849, is buried in Avon Cemetery, Ohio, near her husband. If we take these records at face value, together with the known christening dates of the children, we may deduce that William Wilson married two Elizabeths of unknown surname. The first Elizabeth married two men named Wilson. She and her first husband [G4F7-CBG] may be the parents of a Lydia Wilson [L5KK-6Y5] born 2 Apr 1800, who married David Hobbs on 3 May 1818 in Yelvertoft, Northamptonshire, England. William Wilson was Elizabeth’s second husband, the father of her other six children, and he would be the stepfather of Lydia Wilson. The last of the six children born to William Wilson and Elizabeth was christened 5 Feb 1815 in Yelvertoft. The second Elizabeth must have married William Wilson about 1816 in Northamptonshire, England, and they were the parents of Rebecca E. Wilson [LHF6-SN4], born about 1817 in England. DNA matches between Rebecca’s descendants and other children of William Wilson confirm the relationship.

Census (family)

The only Wilsons listed in the 1840 census for Avon, Lorain County, Ohio, are two Williams, one Thomas, and one John. Thus I suppose they are the father William Wilson Sr., and his three sons who immigrated about 1830.
Family of William Wilson, Sr:
1 M 60-70 [William Wilson]
1 F 50-60 [Elizabeth]

Death

U.S., Federal Census Mortality Schedules Index, 1850-1880
Elizabeth Wilson
Year: 1850
County: Lorain CO.
State: OH
Age: 67
Gender: F (Female)
Month of Death: Nov
State of Birth: EN
ID#: 198_375049
Occupation: NONE LISTED
Cause of Death: DROPSY

Burial

Latitude: 41.458889, Longitude: -82.019997
The tombstone is worn, and the BillionGraves indexer has misread the 4s as 1s.