Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 5th ed., 
1887, Woodford Co.

BENJAMIN WILSON was born April 3, 1802, a son of Benjamin Wilson, who
was a native of Cumberland County, Va., born in 1759, and he a son of 
Col. Benjamin Wilson, also a native of Virginia.  The first two were 
educated at Edinburgh, Scotland.  Benjamin Wilson, the father of 
Benjamin whose name heads this sketch, was in the Revolutionary war.  
Our subject was born in Woodford County, but was educated at a college 
in Virginia, and was a fine Latin scholar.  His death occurred in 1853. 
He married, in 1843, Miss Virginia Shouse, a native of Woodford County, 
and daughter of William and Lucretia (Smith) Shouse, natives of Woodford
and Anderson Counties.  Her grandfather, Henry Shouse, who lived in 
Woodford County, was born in Virginia.  William Shouse was a soldier in 
the war of 1812, and died in 1866, in his seventy-fifth year.  To the 
marriage of Benjamin Wilson and Virginia Shouse were born four children:
Lucretia, Inez, Annie and Benjamin Albert.  Inez is president of the 
Central Female College, Versailles, Ky.  Mrs. Virginia Wilson is the 
owner of Rock Castle, a farm of 440 acres.

Wilson Shouse Smith
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Anderson-KY Cumberland-VA Scotland

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