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In the northwest corner of Ashe County, North Carolina, not far from the Tennessee line, 4 or 5 miles east of Trade, Tennessee is the former Isaac Wilson farm. Today the land has been subdivided and other families reside in a picturesque cove snugly tucked in some of the highest mountains in the Eastern United States.
Descendants Bryan Payne (D.C.), Shirley Sorrell (North Carolina) and Bob Adema (Canada) stand on the cemetery grounds and gaze further into the Wilson Cove in the direction of the 19th Century Wilson home, now long gone and replaced by more recent structures.
Here on June 17, 1864, my great great grandfather Isaac Wilson was cruelly shot and killed in ambush while tilling his corn field. Home of leave from service in the local Confederate Home Guard, local neighbors, Union sympathizers, fired from a tree line, striking him several times in the back.
With him pulling weeds and helping in the cultivation were several of his daughters, Emaline, Jane, and a 13 year old, Frances Wilson Osborne, my great grandmother (1851-1940).
In June 2012, numerous descendants of Isaac and Caroline Greer Wilson visited the cemetery in Oscar Wilson Cove where both lie buried along now with several dozen other of our ancestors. Among the families now resting in the Wilson Cemetery are, among others, the Donnellys and the Osbornes.
Jim Gray, Galye Adema, Betty Ankers, Becky Payne, Bob Adema and Shirley Sorrell at Wilson Cemetery gather around the Isaac Wilson marker. Isaac is believed to have died on the hillside in the background of the above photograph.
One of the most avid Wilson and Forrester family historians is Clinton Getzinger (Virginia) who for years has visited relatives and recorded their stories of his ancestors. Recently Clinton has published his first novel, Forbidden Romance, based in part on the lives of Greer, Wilson and Forrester families of the 19th Century. The book is available at Amazon.com. Clinton is photographed here during the family tour which he helped design and organize.
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