FATHER WILSON WAS BORN IN WESTMORELAND COUNTY: CAME
TO THIS COUNTY IN 1801 AND SETTLED ON LICKING CREEK NEAR CURLLSVILLE,
LIVED THREE MONTHS AMONG THE INDIANS WITHOUT SEEING A WHITE MAN:
WAS FRIENDLY WITH TURKEY JOHN THE GIANT INDIAN, GREAT HUNTER OF
THAT DAY. REMOVED TO CLARION RIVER, BUILT THE FIRST GRISTMILL
NEAR CALLENSBURG. HE BLAZED A ROAD FROM CALLENSBURG THROUGH THE
WOODS TO CURLLSVILLE AND CONVEYED ROB'T McYARRAH BACK TO CONCORD
CHURCH, WHO PREACHED THE FIRST SERMON THERE. IN 1857 HE MOVED
TO THE WEST, REMAINED 6 OR 7 YEARS: RETURNED TO CLARION COUNTY
WHERE HE DIED IN 1878