John N. WILSON

  General Notes:

Photo: To date I do not know the middle name of John Wilson but have found only his consistently-used middle initial "N." John and his wife are buried in Newton Union Cemetery, Newton, Jasper County, Iowa. His gravemarker documents his Civil War service in Company E, 40th Iowa Infantry.

From DeeAnna Allum Granston
By personal request, this photo was taken in 2007 by the Jasper County Genealogical Society, Newton, Iowa



1843 BIRTH of John N. Wilson

1850 CENSUS, Indiana, Hendricks County, Eel River Township (September 17) ("John N.," age 8, is with his parents, Hamilton and Martha Wilson; Hamilton, age 32, "Farmer," born Indiana; Martha, age 32, born Kentucky) (Five children, including John, are in the household in 1850)

1853 MIGRATION from Indiana to Iowa with parents

1856 CENSUS, Iowa State Census, Jasper County, Newton Township ("John N.," age 18, is with his parents; along with his family, he had been a resident of Iowa for 6 years ('contradicts the 1853 year of migration from Indiana to Iowa stated in the 1878 HISTORY OF JASPER COUNTY, IOWA)

1860 CENSUS, Iowa, Jasper County, Buena Vista Township, P. O. Newton (June 23) ("John," age 17, is with his parents, S. H. Wilson and Martha)

1866 MARRIAGE of John N. Wilson and Nancy Jane Green on December 28 in Jasper County, Iowa by E. H. Winans

Nancy was the daughter of Willis and Mary (Kirby) Green, both born in Kentucky

1870 CENSUS, Iowa, Jasper County, Newton Township, P. O. Newton (August 3) ("John," age 27, "Farmer") (wife "Nancy," age 27) ("Nilson" in some census indexes)

1880 CENSUS, Iowa, Jasper County, Newton Township (July 13) ("John," age 37, "Farmer") (Nancy is "Jennie" on the census page, age 37)

1885 CENSUS, Iowa State Census, Jasper County, Newton Township (no date) ("John N.," age 41, "Farmer," born in Indiana) (wife "Jennie," age 41)

1895 CENSUS, Iowa State Census, Jasper County, Newton Township (no date) ("John N.," age 52, born in Indiana) (wife "Nancy J.," agde 51, born in Jefferson County, Iowa)

1900 CENSUS, Iowa, Jasper County, Newton Township (June 7) ("John N.," age 57, born "February, 1843 in Indiana," occupation "Farmer") (wife "Nancy," age 57, born "May, 1843 in Iowa") (Nancy is shown as the mother of 3 children, 3 children living in the year 1900; she and John had been married 33 years)

1905 CENSUS, Iowa State Census, Newton Township, P. O. Newton ("John N.," "Nancy J.," son "Guy E.") (names only are in the 1905 Iowa State Census)

1910 CENSUS, Iowa, Jasper County, Newton Township, Newton Ward 3 (April 15) ("John N.," age 67, "Own Income") (wife "Nancy J.," age 66)

1920 CENSUS, Minnesota, Renville County, Buffalo Lake village (January 3) ("John N.," age 77, no occupation cited) (wife "Nancy J.," age 77)

1923 DEATH of wife, Nancy Jane (Green) Wilson, at 80 years 1 month 15 days

1928 DEATH, John N. Wilson, at 85 years 2 months 10 days




BOOK: HISTORY OF JASPER COUNTY, IOWA, Western Historical Company, Chicago, Illinois, 1878, page 530, pertaining to Newton Township:


WILSON, J. N.., farmer, Sec. 32; was born in Hendricks Co, Ind., Feb. 5, 1843; moved to this county with his parents in 1853 settling in Buena Vista Tp. Enlisted Aug. 12, 1862, in the 40th I. V. I., Co. E; was engaged in many severe skirmishes and was honorably discharged in Aug., 1865. He returned to this county, and Dec. 27, 1866, married Nancy J. Green, who is a native of Iowa; they have two children--Fannie M. and Frederick E. Mrs. W. is a member of the M. E. Church. Mr. W. owns 120 acres of land valued at $4,800, ninety acres of which is improved, and the balance is timber and pasture; has also a brick kiln on his farm, and a good dwelling house with substantial barn and outbuildings; he has resided here since 1875. Politically he is a Republican.


The aforementioned book was published in 1878 before the 1882 birth of John and Nancy's son, Guy Everett Wilson.



This page was published in March, 2006, updated in 2011

John married Nancy Jane GREEN on December 28, 1866 in Jasper County, Iowa. (Nancy Jane GREEN was born on May 7, 1843 in Jasper County or Jefferson County, Iowa, died on June 22, 1923 in Hennepin County, Minnesota and was buried in Newton Union Cemetery, Newton, Newton Township, Jasper County, Iowa.)