Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 
1886. Allen County.

GEORGE Y. WILSON was born in Allen County, November 28, 1853, where he 
grew up.  His father, Benjamin P. Wilson, was born March 10, 1810.  He 
was a son of George Wilson, of Virginia, who was of Irish descent.  
Benjamin Wilson was married March 1, 1830, to Lethe, daughter of Yancy 
and Mary (Dillon) Turner, of Sumner County, Tenn., who was born December 
22, 1814.  He started in life at the bottom of the ladder, but by 
industry, economy and perserverance, he accumulated a fine property and 
became the owner of a well improved farm of 200 acres, in good condition 
and a fine state of cultivation.  He was for eight terms assessor of 
Allen County, during which time he received a premium for having the 
best-kept assessor's books in the State.  He was a magistrate and member 
of the court of claims of Allen County for three terms, and was, 
besides, for four years county judge of his native county.  In 1830 he 
was converted and joined the Methodist Church, in which he was, in 1831, 
licensed to exhort, and in 1837 was licensed to preach, and afterward 
was ordained, in 1847, as a deacon, by Bishop Janes, and as elder by 
Bishop Paine, in 1854.  From 1837 up to within a short time of his 
death, which took place April 25, 1877, he labored constantly and 
earnestly as a minister of the Gospel, meeting with great success.  He 
had seven children, of whom George Y. is the youngest.  He was possessed 
in his youth of fair opportunities and has obtained a fair English 
education; he is a moral man, not at present a member of any church 
organization, but is a Methodist in belief, and in politics is a 
Democrat.

Wilson Dillon Turner Janes Paine
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VA Sumner-TN

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