Richard Milhous Nixon 1913

Richard Milhous Nixon (President) [4C1R] was born on January 13, 1913 in Yorba Linda, CA.  (See Information in Family Currents: Wilson Blog.)

Hannah Milhous 1885

Hannah MILHOUS (5C2R) was born on March 7, 1885 in Butlerville, Jennings County, Indiana and died in Whittier, Los Angeles Co., California on September 30, 1967, she was 82. Namesake: After a Milhous Aunt and the Biblical mother of Samuel. Education: Whittier College. On June 25, 1908, when Hannah was 23, she married Francis Anthony NIXON (3C2R), son of Samuel Brady Nixon & Sarah Ann Wadsworth, in Whittier, CA. Born on December 3, 1878 in Elk Township, Ohio, Francis Anthony died in La Habra, Ca. on September 4, 1956, he was 77. Occupation: Streetcar Motorman.

[Pictured in 1878, Samuel Brady Nixon and Sarah Ann Wadsworth Nixon]

They had the following children:





Harold Samuel (4C1R) was born in Jun3 1909 and died in Whittier, California on March 9, 1933, he was 23. He was buried in Whittier Heights. Namesake: An English King and Franklin's father. Cause of death: Tuberculosis.

Richard Milhous (1913-1994)

Francis Donald (4C1R) was born in November 1914.

Arthur Burdg (4C1R) was born in 1918 and died in East Whittier, California on August 19, 1925, he was 7. He was buried in 1925 in Whittier Heights. Cause of death: illness.

[Pictured on the right, Hannah and her sons 1930]

Elizabeth MILHOUS (5C2R) Elizabeth married Russell Harrison.

They had one child:
Russell (6C1R) was born in 1913.

Richard Milhous Nixon 1913

Richard Milhous Nixon, President of the United States (4C1R), was born on 13 January 13, 1913 in Yorba Linda, CA. and died there on April 23, 1994, he was 81. Occupation: President of the United States 1969 - 1973. Namesake: King Richard, the Lion-Hearted. Alias/AKA: Tricky Dick.

On June, 21 1940, when Richard Milhous was 27, he married Thelma Catherine Ryan, daughter of William Ryan And Katherine Halberstadt, in Mission Inn, Riverside, California. She was born on March 16, 1912 in Ely, White Pine, Nevada. Thelma Catherine died in Park Ridge, New Jersey on June 22, 1993, she was 81. Alias/AKA: Pat, Patricia.

They had the following children:
Patricia (5th Cousin), born in April 1946 in Whittier, California.

Julie (5th Cousin), born on July 5, 1948 in Washington, DC. Julie married David Eisenhower, son of President Dwight David Eisenhower.

Francis A. Nixon 1878 and William Frederick Wilson III 1880

Francis Anthony NIXON (3C2R) was born on December 3, 1878 in Elk Township, Ohio. Francis Anthony died in La Habra, Ca. on September 4, 1956, he was 77. Occupation: Streetcar Motorman. On June 25, 1908 when Francis Anthony was 29, he married Hannah MILHOUS (5C2R) daughter of Franklin Milhous and Almira Park Burdg, in Whittier, CA. Hannah was born on March 7, 1885 in Butlerville, Jennings County, IN. and died in Whittier, Los Angeles County, California on September 30, 1967, she was 82. Namesake: After a Milhous Aunt and the Biblical mother of Samuel.

They had the following children:
Harold Samuel, (4C1R) Born in June 1909. Harold Samuel died in Whittier, California on March 9, 1933, he was 23. He was buried in Whittier Heights. Namesake: An English King and Franklin;s father.

Richard Milhous (1913-1994)

Francis Donald (4C1R) was born in November 1914.

Arthur Burdg (4C1R) was born in 1918 and died in East Whittier, California on August 19, 1925, he was 7. he was buried in Whittier Heights.

William Wilson Meredith 1st, G Grandfather. Born in 1869. (See material in MEREDITH Section.)

Benjamin Franklin Meredith 2nd, GG Uncle. Born in 1872 (See material in MEREDITH Section.)

Charles Frederick Meredith, GG Uncle. Born on April 17, 1874 (See material in MEREDITH Section.)

Joseph Evans Meredith, GG Uncle. Born in 1878. (See material in MEREDITH Section.)

William Frederick Wilson III, G Uncle. Born on July 28, 1880, he died on December 10, 1965 at 85. He was buried in St. Paul's Churchyard, Lionsville, Pa. He resided in Anselma, Pa. in 1916. On June 26, 1909 when William Frederick was 28, he married Mary Elizabeth Buzzard, born in 1881. Mary Elizabeth died on August 6, 1971, she was 90. She was buried in St. Paul's Churchyard, Lionsville, Pa.

They had one adopted child (See post on Helen Wilson):
Emily Margaret (1919-)

William Frederick Wilson Jr 1856

William Frederick Wilson Jr., Great Grandfather was born on August 29, 1856 in Honeybrook, Pa. William Frederick died on December 31, 1933, he was 77. He was buried in St. Paul's Churchyard, Lionsville, Pa. He resided along Route 100 below St. Paul's Reformed Church (Now Marchwood Apts.) in 1929 and resided in Anselma, Pa. in 1916. Alias/AKA: Frederick, Fred. He was a: farmer of 180 acres in Lower Uwchlan Township, Chester County, Pa. Education: Mr. Jacob Harvey's School at Unionville. Religion: Attended St. Paul's Reformed Church.

Frederick Wilson, a leading farmer of Lower Uwchlan Township, Chester County, is a son of William Wilson, who was a native of that county, where he passed his life as a farmer, and was also engaged in business as an auctioneer. For many years he was the proprietor of the Brandywine Hotel, which was situated above Coatesville. He married Amanda Hickens (sic, should be Esther Bicking). Mr. and Mrs. Wilson became the parents of the following children: Adelia, who married Lewis Hutton, who is now deceased; Charles, who is a resident proprietor of a restaurant in York, Pennsylvania, and married Sallie Nord of Coatesville; Emma, who is the wife of B. F. Merrills (sic s/b Meredith), a farmer in Pomeroy, near Coatesville; Frederick, mentioned at length hereinafter; and Frank, who was at one-time engaged in the restaurant business in Parkesburg, Pennsylvania.

Frederick Wilson, son of William and Amanda (Bickens) [sic] Wilson, was born August 29, 1856, in Honeybrook, Chester county, and received his primary education in the public schools, subsequently becoming a pupil at Mr. Jacob Harvey's school in Unionville. On leaving school, he decided to become a farmer, and in pursuance of this resolution has since devoted himself with marked success to agricultural pursuits. He is now the owner of a farm of one hundred and eighty acres in Lower Uwchlan Township. This estate, which is kept by him in a high state of cultivation, is supplemented by a dairy of thirty-five head of cattle. The very superior products of this part of his establishment meet with a ready sale in the markets of Philadelphia. Although taking an earnest interest in whatever concerns the welfare of the community in which he resides, Mr. Wilson , owing to the absorbing nature of his duties as an agriculturist, takes no active part in public affairs. Politically, he is a Democrat. He and his family attend St. Paul's Reformed Church.

Mr. Wilson married Annie, daughter of James Dunlap, of West Caln township, the former being a farmer who combined with his agricultural labors the trade of a shoemaker. The following children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Wilson: William, Evans, Helen, Clare, Eva (sic, probably Heber), and Esther. All these children are still at home with their parents, the sons acting as the assistants of their father in the care and management of the homestead. Chester and Delaware Counties Families History

St. Paul's along Route 100 in Lionsville, Pennsylvania

On the left is how it looked in 1900.

On the right is how it looks today (2008)

On 25 March 25, 1879 when William Frederick was 22, he married Anna Margaret Dunlap, daughter of James Evans Dunlap and Rachel Supplee Boyer. Anna was born on 20 November 20, 1855 and died on January 4, 1934, she was 78. She was buried in St. Paul's Churchyard, Lionsville, Pa. Alias/AKA: Annie.

On the left: William and Anna and their grandchildren in 1930.

They had the following children:
William Frederick (1880-1965)

James Evans (1884-1931)

Samuel Heber (1888-1976)

Helen (1890-1919)

Clara (1893-1975)

Esther (1899-1987)

Frank WILSON, Great Great Uncle was born on August 29, 1856. Frank died about 1910. Occupation: Restaurant business in Parkesburg, Pa. Frank married Anne Volkert, daughter of Leonhart Volkert and Margaret Pollot.

They had one child:
Celia. Celia married Herman KRAUSE.

Samuel Brady Nixon 1847 and Emma Bicking Wilson Meredith 1847

Samuel Brady Nixon (2C3R) was born on October 9, 1847 in Smith Township, Washington County, Pa. and died in Vinton County, Ohio on April 28, 1914, at 66. He held occupations as a teacher, mailman, part-time farmer and produce seller. April 10, 1873, when Samuel Brady was 25, he first married Sarah Ann Wadsworth, in Hocking, Fairfield County, Ohio who was born on October 15, 1852 in Hocking. Sarah Ann died in Vinton, Ohio on January 18, 1886, she was but 33. She had been a teacher. Cause of death: Tuberculosis.

They had the following children:
Francis Anthony (1878-1956)


Ernest, born about 1883.

In 1890, when Samuel Brady was 42, he married for a second time.

Emma Bicking Wilson, my great great grandmother was born on April 23, 1847 in Honeybrook, Pa. She died in Hollywood, California on December 4, 1938, she was 91. She was buried in 1938 in Upper Octorara, Pa.

(Emma is listed as married to B. F. Merrills in the Chester and Delaware Counties Families History, obviously a misspelling of B. F. Meredith. --LEM)

Emma B. Meredith. Mrs. Emma Bicking Meredith, widow of the late B. F. Meredith, Sr., died yesterday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Horace Sessions, Hollywood, Calif., in her 92nd year. She had been ill for about two years, but had only been seriously ill for the past three months. Her death was due to a series of apoplectic strokes. Mrs. Meredith was a daughter of the late William and Esther Wilson and was born in Honey Brook on April 23, 1847. When she was quite young, the family moved to Brandywine Inn, where she spent her girlhood years. Upon her marriage she took up her residence at the Meredith homestead in West Caln Township, where she lived for many years. Later the family moved to Pomeroy, where she lived until the death of her husband in 1920. Since that time she has resided in California. In her active years Mrs. Meredith was widely known in this part of the county. She was active in the Sunday school that was conducted for many year's at Bonsall's school house near her West Caln home. She was also active in the W. C. T. U. (West Caln Temperance Union) and other organizations of a civic and charitable nature. She was the last of her generation of her own family and is survived by two daughters and three sons: Anna, wife of William Gibbs, of Buffalo; William W. Meredith, of West Chester; B. F. Meredith, Jr., of West Caln; Charles F. Meredith, of Shelby, Mich.; Ivagene, wife of Horace Sessions, of Hollywood; sixteen grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Mrs. Frank Wilson, widow of her youngest brother also survives. Another son, Joseph E. Meredith, of Coatesville, died some years ago. The remains will be brought east for the funeral, which will take place at the old Meredith homestead, in West Caln, about two miles northeast of Sadsburyville, now occupied by B. F. Meredith, Jr., on Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Interment will be in Upper Octorara cemetery. Coatesville Record. 12/5/1938.

William Frederick Wilson Sr 1817

George Nixon III, my first cousin fourth removed was born in 1821 in Washington County, Pennsylvania. George died at the battle in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania in July 1863, he was 42. On January 10, 1843 when George was 22, he married Margaret Ann Trimmer, born in 1826, in Washington County, Pennsylvania.

They had one child:
Samuel Brady (1847-1914)

William Frederick Wilson Sr. was my great great Grandfather. Born on March 9, 1817, William Frederick died on February 27, 1886, when he was 68. Resided in Lower Uwchlan Township, Chester Co., Pa. Occupation: He was a Farmer and Auctioneer residing in Lower Uwchlan Township, Chester County, Pa. Later he also became the proprietor of the Brandywine Hotel above Coatesville, Pa. William Frederick married Esther Helen Bicking, daughter of Frederick Bicking (manager of his father's paper mill) and Julie Anne Fisher. Born on May 15, 1823, Esther Helen died on 31 January 31, 1862, she was 38. (She was to give her name to my Grand Aunt Helen and my Grandmother Esther. Helen was fated to also died young. Esther lived into her late eighties.)

Vol 2 -- Wilson of the Chester and Delaware Counties Family Histories states that William Sr. married Amanda Bickens. He married Esther Helen Bicking. This article has several such misspellings on name. It Refers to B. F. Merrills as William Sr.'s son-in-law. This was actually B. F. Meredith. Is it possible that Esther had a sister Amanda, that the author confused her with here? (LEM)

They had the following children:
Adelia, born in 1843 she died about 1900. Adelia married Lewis Hutton.

Charles was born in 1845 and died about 1910. He resided in York, Pa. and was a resident proprietor of a restaurant there. Charles married Sallie Nord, who resided in Coatesville, Pa. prior to marriage.

Emma Bicking (1847-1938) [My father's great great grandmother.]

William Frederick (1856-1933) [My mother's great grandfather.]

Frank (1856-~1910)

Clara, born in 1850.

George H. Brown 1720

George H. Brown was my 5th Great Grandfather. Born on 8 Nov 1720 in Pennsmanor, Bucks Cunty., Pa., George H died in Falls Township, Bucks County Pa. about 1790.

Children:
George (1765-1797)
Adley (1772-1842)

Mercy Brown, my 6th Great Aunt, was born January 12, 1722 in Falls Township, Bucks County. Pa. and died in Falls Township, Pa. on January 22, 1784, she was 62.

On September 7, 1747 when Mercy was 25, she married Joshua Baldwin, son of John Baldwin and Hannah, in Falls Township, Bucks, Pa. Born on Novenber 13, 1721 in Chester, Chester County, Pa. Joshua died in E. Caln, Chester County, PA on May 13, 1800, he was 78.

IGI (BES) batch 7303620 sheet 76 film 822630 (ss) batch 7303620 sheet 86 film 822630 Marriage: Records of Goshen Mtg. in "Society of Friends Records of Chester County", page 130, film 389402, in Salt Lake City Genealogical Library. Joshua was the son of John (2), the son of John (1) of Middletown, who came with brothers Thomas and Francis Baldwin from Oxfordshire, England, and first settled in Aston, now in Delaware, before 1689. He was a Quaker and m. Katharine Carter, Wid. Edward Turner, 1689. After the death of his first wife, Sarah Downing, Joshua Baldwin married Mercy Brown

(Joshua was to marry again into the family with Ann Meredith). Joshua and Mercy had a daughter, Hannah Baldwin. Hannah married William Milhous, who was the 4xgreat grandfather of Richard Milhous Nixon, also a Quaker.

They had the following children:
Hannah (1748-1825)

John was born on December 11, 1751 in Goshen, Chester Co., Pa. John died on December 26, 1758, he was 7.1

Samuel was.born on 13 April 13, 1754 in Chester County, Pa. Samuel died in August 1778, he was 24.1

Rachel was born on July 13, 1756 in Chester County, Pa. Rachel died about 1826.

Ann was born on December 13, 1758 in Chester County, Pa. Ann died about 1828.

Mercy was born on January 15, 1761 in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio. Mercy died in Short Creek, Jefferson County, Ohio on 15 December 15, 1835, she was 74.

Jane was born on March 22, 1763 in Cecil, Pa. Jane died about 1833.

Hannah to Sidney Wilson

Hannah Wilson, my great great great great aunt, was.born in 1790 in Delaware and died in Washington County, Pa. in 1827, she was 37.

About 1806 when Hannah was 16, she married George Nixon II, in Washington, Pennsylvania. He was born in 1784.

They had the following children:
Eleanora
Sarah
Mary Ann
James
Nancy
William Wilson
George (1821-1863)

William Davis Wilson, great great great Grandfather, was born in 1795 in Newcastle (sic) County, De. William Davis died about 1865.

About 1816 when William Davis was 21, he married Susan.

They had one child:
William Frederick (1817-1886)

Sidney Wilson, was.born in 1798 in New Castle Co., De. and died in Elk Township, Vinton County, Ohio in 1871, she was 73.

Around 1829, when Sidney was 31, she married William Alexander Allendera, who was born on November 8, 1796 in Washington County, Pa. William Alexander died in Elk Township, Vinton Co., Ohio on February 8, 1870 at 73.

They had the following children:
David was born in 1830 in Pennsylvania. David died about 1900.
Bolton G. was born in 1833 in Pennsylvania. Bolton G. died in 1844, he was 11.
David was born in 1830 in Pennsylvania. David died about 1900.