March 12, 1851 - Caroline Wilson

We still are anxiously waiting for Father’s return but have Caroline with us yet. She’s expecting to go out home Friday, but we are very sorry. Nothing of much importance happened expecting Father’s return.

Caroline’s home is in Green Township, Hamilton County, Ohio (1850 FC Census). She lives there with her father-in-law John M. Wilson, a farmer born in New Jersey. His wife, Almira Lewis Wilson, died in 1848 (Spooner 166). Almira was Serena’s aunt. Three of John and Almira’s children still lived at home in 1850—Abigail (age twenty-nine in 1850), Lothrop (seventeen) and Roxanna (ten). The Census listing shows that the household also included Hannah Deckmyre, age thirteen, born in Germany, and Walter Hamlin, laborer, age seventeen, born in England.