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Notes for George Roberts Wilkinson: Maria Smith married George R. Wilkinson in Lancaster County, PA, March 20, 1845. Maria and George pioneered westward to Belmont, Ohio - just a few miles west of Wheeling, West Virginia...here they lived for ten years. Maria didn't want to bring up a growing family in a "little town" so they again moved west and in 1855, July 4, crossed over into Iowas where they located in Muscatine County. They established their home 1 1/2 miles (one mile north and a half mile east) of Atalisa. When they arrived in Iowa, there were three children - Eleanora, Gilpin, and Gulielma, who was just a baby. ...George R. Wilkinson was a member of the Grand Templars Union - a temperance society. (the above was taken from a letter dated December 28, 1935 - written by Alice Wilkinson Sparks (sister to Gulielma Wilkinson Dallas.)
(from letter dated Jan. 10, 1936 - written by Alice Wilkinson Sparks to Justine Elma Dallas.) Gulielma Wilkinson was born in Belmont, Ohio, July 29, 1854. Maria Smith was born in Lancaster County, PA, Dec. 29, 1819. George Roberts Wilkinson was born in Chester County, PA, July 28, 1821. Maria Smith and George R. Wilkinson had a total of six children...Eleanora, Gilpin, Gulielma, Alice, Lucette, and Anna Maria....Eleanora, Gilpin, Gulielma were born in Belmont, Ohio...and Alice, Lucette, and Anna Maria were born in Iowa.....In 1936, Gilpin Wilkinson was living in Iowa City, IA...Alice Wilkinson Sparks, a widow,Lucette Wilkinson, a retired physician, and Anna Maria Wilkinson Gorman, with her husband Wilfred Morgan Gorman were living in Long Beach, California. Gulielma Wilkinson dropped the first half of the name recorded in the family bible and became "Elma". Gulielma was named after William Penn's wife and is the latin Feminine of Gulielmus...which means William.
More About George Roberts Wilkinson: Burial: Unknown, West Liberty, Iowa.
More About George Roberts Wilkinson and Maria Smith: Marriage: 20 March 1845, ,Lancaster County, PA.
Marriage Notes for George Roberts Wilkinson and Maria Smith: (from record found on "family search.com") children of George Wilkinson and Maria Smith: Samuel Wilkinson - b. 2 May 1846, Belmont, Belmont Co., OH, d. 22 October 1848, Belmont, Belmont Co., OH....Elnora Wilkinson - b. 17 February 1848, Belmont, Belmont Co., OH.....Gilpin Wilkinson - b. 8 March 1850, Belmont, Belmont Co., OH....Philena C. Wilkinson - b. 29 March 1853, Belmont, Belmont Co., OH, d. 25 September 1853, Belmont, Belmont Co., OH....Gulielma Wilkinson - b. 29 July 1854, Belmont, Belmont Co., OH....Alice V. Wilkinson - b. 25 January 1857, Atalissa, Muscatine Co., IA....Lucette Wilkinson - b. 21 March 1859, Atalissa, Muscatine Co., IA....Anna Maria Wilkinson - b. 25 July 1861, Atalissa, Muscatine Co., IA
George and Maria were distant cousins. George was the great-grandson of Alice Smith; Maria was the great-granddaughter of John Smith, the brother of Alice. In 1845, when George and Maria asked permission to marry, George's Meeting refused. At any rate, they went ahead, and George said the best thing he ever did in his life was to marry Maria Smith.
Children of George Roberts Wilkinson and Maria Smith are:
George Roberts Wilkinson (b. 28 July 1821, d. 20 March 1891)
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