NEWS ARTICLES Of PIKE COUNTY ILLINOIS JOSEPH WILSON Age 95 - Special Correspondence Globe-Democrat. Griggsville Illinois., Dec. 31 Contributed by Sandy Donaldson Joseph Wilson was born in Lincolnshire, England, March 6, 1793, and is consequently almost 95 years old. He was the eldest of ten children, and his parents dying when the children were young, the oldest child had in a large degree the care of his brothers and sisters. Until 1826 he followed the business of shepherd at his home in England when he came to the United States, spending two yeas in New York, they came direct to his present home, a nice farm, 3 miles northeast of Griggsville, where he has ever since continued to live, raising stock and farming, His wife died in 1876, aged 76 years. Five of their seven children are living. He was a member of the M. E. church before he left England, and has always been a member of the same church while here. He came to this part of Illinois when the Indians were here, when schools were unknown, and has done his part to build up the moral and material interests of the State. He was an ardent Whig until the organization of the Republican party, when be became a member of the same and never mugwumped. His eyesight is good, and he does his reading without the aid of spectacles never having used such aids. He tends his large garden alone, digging the ground, and won't have a horse or plow therein. Recently he walked to this place, and in October last made a visit to relatives in Kansas, remarking that it looked like a passably good country, and possibly he would go there to live and grow up with the country. His health has been good throughout his life. When "Boss" Wilson, as he is called by everybody, dies there will be tears shed by many that are not connected to him by the ties of consanguinity. But that time is apparently several years off. It is predicted he will reach the century post. Photo on the right contributed by Barbara Craig