HISTORY OF KENTUCKY, by Lewis Collins, and J.A. & U.P. James, published 
1847.  Reprinted by Henry Clay Press, Lexington, Ky., 1968, p.136. 
[Mason county].

The REV. ROBERT WILSON was descended from ancestors whom persecution had 
driven from the north of Ireland to western Virginia.  He entered 
Kentucky as a missionary in 1798, and on the expiration of his 
engagement, married and settled in Washington, Mason county, where he 
remained till his death, October 31, 1822, in the fiftieth year of his 
age.  He was an amiable and estimable man, possessing great equanimity 
of temper, and remarkable throughout his whole ministerial career, for 
his active, humble and devoted piety.  While his labors were signally 
blessed among his own flock, it was through his unwearied exertions that 
the churches of Augusta and Maysville were organized; and those of 
Smyrna and Flemingsburg owed to him their preservation when languishing 
without a pastor. [Presbyterian].

Wilson
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Ireland VA Flemingsburg-Fleming-KY

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