The Wilson Family/Rinaman Family Chronicle July 2005

* The middle initial of James Wilson Senior is an A on the 1876 land map, a H on the deed that recorded his buying the land, and a S when Dr Mudd writes about him. It has also appeared to be a R on occasion. S appears most often and will be used in this document.

Parents are in Bold italics, Children are in Bold, Direct Rinaman and Kaltrider ancestors are in Bold italics, and underlined.

ca 1525 Heinrich Kaltenreider Sr is born in Wyll, in Thurgau,

Canton Switzerland. He will be a barber by trade.

This line has not been definitely proved to be ours.

ca 1529 Walpurg, (lnu? or fnu?) Heinrich Sr's future wife

is born.

18 Feb 1568 Heinrich Kaltenreider Jr is born in Kerzers or Kertzers,

Switzerland. His parents are Heinrich Sr, and Walpurg

(lnu), or (fnu?). Heinrich Sr will eventually die in

Kerzers Switzerland.

1570 Gertrudt/Gerri (lnu), Heinrich's future wife is born.

Before 1600 The ancestors of James S. Wilson Sr. are living in

Scotland They appear to have been Lowland Scots.

1600 King James I of England, having conquered Ireland, sets up the

Ulster Plantations in Ireland. He offers 2000 acres to anyone

who can get 20 families to go there and settle on each 2000 acre

plot. He hoped to attract the poor of the English cities, but got

mostly people from Scotland. They had little to do with the Irish

Catholics, retaining their Presbyterian churches. Surf the web for

Ulster Plantations for the full story.

4 April 1601 Peter Kaltenreider Sr is born, in Kerzers, or Kertzers,

Switzerland. He is the son of Heinrich and Gertudt/Gerri

Kaltenreider.

1606 The Ulster Plantation gets started in earnest.

1608 The Irish in Ulster rebel.

1620 50,000 Scots are in Ireland.

17 June 1638 Peter Kaltenreider Jr, is born in Kerzers or Kertzers,

Switzerland. He is the son of Peter Sr and Barbli Kaltenreider

ca 1638 Anna Gutknecht, Peter Jrs future wife is born.

1641 The Irish rebel again.

1652 The Cromwellian Plantation is started in Ireland.

20 Sept 1678 Bendickt (Benedict) Kaltenreider, son of Peter and Anna

Kaltenreider, is born in Germany or Switzerland.

ca 1680 Veronica Eichaeker, Benedict Kaltenreider's future wife

is born.

1693 The Williamite Plantation is started in Ireland.

1606 1700 James S. Wilson Sr. ancestors move to Ireland, at some yet

undetermined time.

1700 The Scots are having to pay Quit rents, laws have been passed

so non Catholics can't hold office, can't join the military, but

must pay tithes to the Catholic Church. The Scots begin coming

to the United States, settling in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and

Delaware, in large numbers in 1720 and 1730.

In the 1740's and 50's they are settling in North Carolina.

James S. Wilson Sr descends from these Scotch Irish,

possibly some of the Maryland settlers.

1712 There are some 200,000 Scots in Ireland.

2 Nov 1735 Johann Theobald Duvald (David) Kaltreuter (Kaldreider)

(Caltrider) (Kaltrider) son of Benidict and Veronica Kaltreuter,

is born in Germany.

1741 Theobald Kalrider travels from Germany to America on the

ship, "Friendship". His father Bendickt Kaltenreider, and

uncles Philip and Hans George are in the party. They land in

Philadelphia, Pa. Theobald will marry Elizabeth Catherine

(lnu), and they will have three children, Catarina, Johann Peter,

and Georg. It is probable that either Bendickt or his brothers

Philip or Hans George, are our direct ancestor, but further

research is needed.

1762 Christopher Reneman is living in Manheim Township, York

County, Pa. Tax bill. He may be the first of the Rinaman line

in the United States, but this has yet to be proven. It is suspected

that this line are Mennonites. Our line appear to all be Lutherans.

There are further records for this line in this TWNSHP in 1766,

1769, and 1772.

ca.1778 Willhelm (William) Rineaman, marries Maria Barbara Barbary.

He is in his 30's, she is in her 20's.

They will have six children, Jacob, Molly (Magdalene),

John, Elizabeth, Caterenor, and Marie (Anna) Christina.

1783 William Reineman's tax bill for Manheim Township, York

County, Pa. is 2.3.8. (Pounds/Shillings/Pence?) He has six in his

family, owns 60 acres, 4 cows, 3 horses, and 6 sheep. He has a

house and a outhouse. It is valued at 95.5.0.

1790 census William Rinaman was not found. He

would be 40 to 50 years old.

Manheim Township was not in the Ancestry.com

holdings. His neighbors in 1800 could not be found in the 1790

listing either, suggesting that a census roll has been lost.

18 May 1791 Susannah Kaltreuter, future wife of Jacob Rinaman is born,

probably in Pa. She probably is a descendant of

Theobald (David) Kaltreuter or one of his uncles Philip or

Hans George.

1792-3? Jacob Rinaman is born in York county, Pennsylvania.

1795 William Rineman is listed as having 60 acres, 4 cows, and 2

horses, total valuation 100. Taxes 0.6.3

(Pounds/Shillings/pence?) Manheim Township,

York County, Pa. taxes.

1796 James S. Wilson Sr, is born in Virginia.

He is Scotch Irish. The 1860 census says he was born in

Maryland in 1793.

1797 Margaret Catherine Miller is born in Maryland of parents

who were born in Germany. The 1860 census says she

was born in 1790.

? James S. Wilson marries Margaret Catherine Miller. They

are Catholic. He is reported to be a farmer and shoemaker.

1800 Census William Rineman is listed as living in York County, Manheim

Township, Pennsylvania. He and his wife are in the over 45

category. They have 2 sons in the 16 to 25 range, One of

these is Jacob age 17, and one is John. There is 1 daughter

under 10, 1 is 10 to 15, and 1 is 16 to 25. These would be

Molly Elizabeth and Caterenor.

1801 Tax Roll William Rinaman is shown owning 60 acres, 2 horses, and

3 cows, in Manheim Township, York County, Pa.

1810 Census William Reineman is in Manheim Twnshp, York Co. Pa.

He is 60 to 70, his wife is 50 to 60. Three girls live with them,

one under 10, (Maria) one 10 to 15, one 16 to 25. Molly,

Elizabeth and Caterenor were his older daughters, one of

which has apparently married.. Jacob is apparently

living elsewhere. The German word "rein" means pure,

unadulterated, clean, so I guess the family name means

"pure or clean man". The English translation of the German

word "rein" is "rine", so it all adds up.

In Baltimore County, Maryland, there is a John Reneman

listed. This is probably Jacob's brother.

25 Mar 1812 Jacob Rinaman 29, marries Susanna (Catharine) Kaltreuter

(Caltrider) (Kaltrider) 16, in St Matthews Lutheran Church,

in Hanover Borough, York County, Pa. His parents are

Willhelm Rinaman and Maria Barbary. Jacob and Susanna

will have eight children, Peter, Henry, John (Johannes),

William, Jacob Jr, Eliza, David, and Margaret. The family is

Lutheran. David will serve in the Union Army in the Civil War.

30 Jan 1815 Peter Rinaman (Rinamon) is born near Hampstead, Carroll

County, Maryland. Another record says he was born in York

County, Pennsylvania. His father is Jacob Rinaman, who was

born in York County, Pennsylvania.

He was a member of a Pennsylvania Dutch family. One of

William's(Willhelm?) brothers served in the

Revolutionary War.

by 4 May 1819 Jacob Rinaman has moved his family to near Manchester,

Maryland, in what is now Carroll County. It was then just

across the line from Pa.

4 May 1819 Peter Rinamans brother, Johannes (John) is baptized in

the Lutheran Church in Manchester, Baltimore County,

Maryland. He was born 23 Nov 1818.

1820 Census Baltimore County, Maryland, Phillip and Jacob Rinaman are

listed as heads of families. Jacob is 37, his wife Catherine

is 26. Wilhilh Rinaman is in Manheim

Twnsp, York County, Pa. He is 70 to 80, his wife is 60 to 70.

There is 1 girl under 10, and 1 between 16 to 25 in the

household. All of his daughters are married in 1822,

so the young girl is unexplained.

12 Apr 1822 Willhelm Rineaman writes his will in York County, Pa.

He leaves $150 to his wife Barbary. He gives $400 each to son

Jacob, his daughter Molly Rinaman Hauk, and his daughter

Maria Rinaman Roverstone.

His son John, his daughter Elizabeth Rinaman Martin and

daughter Caterenor Rinaman Foust are declared to have already

received their full share. He names Jacob his executor. He is

holding some notes for money he has loaned. The estate appears

to be worth $1,350 in cash plus household furnishings ect.

24 Nov 1822 William Rinaman, Peter's brother, is baptized in the Lutheran

Church in Manchester Maryland. He was born 26 July 1822.

1824 James S. Wilson rides in the "Great Procession",

honoring General Lafayette's visit to Washington, D.C.

19 Oct 1824 Jacob Rinaman Jr., Peter's brother is born.

7 Mar 1826 Sophia (Sapphira) Wilson is born near Beltsville, Prince

Georges County, Md.

27 July 1828 Eliza Rinaman, Peter's sister is baptized in the Lutheran Church,

in Manchester, Maryland. She was born 1 April 1828.

1830 Census Baltimore County Maryland. Jacob's family has a

woman between 80 and 90 living with them. Jacob is 47,

his wife Catharine is 36.

William Rineman and son John are listed as neighbors in

Manheim Township, York County Pennsylvania. William

Rineman is listed as being 80 to 90, and his wife is listed as

being 70 to 80. Neither can be identified in the 1840 census,

so it appears they have died before then.

1833 Peter and Henry Rinaman have their Catechumens at the

Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, Manchester, Maryland.

(Carroll County).

3 Dec 1833 Willhelm (William) Rineaman has died. He was between 83 and

93 years old. The letters of administration for the probate of

his will have this date.

Before 1834 Stephen Wilson born, in Maryland. 1860 census.

28 May 1834 James S. Wilson, the son, born, Prince Georges Co. Md.

On Lincoln Co. Mo. land maps he's listed as James S. Wilson.

16 Aug 1834 William Rinaman's wife Barbary has died, and a sale of her

property is held on this date. She was between 74 and 84 years

old. Jacob Rinaman executes the sale.

Kitchen items, some furniture, a stove and a cow are sold.

Probate papers.

16 Oct 1837 Peter Rinaman marries Margaret Strickling, in Carroll County,

Maryland. They will have three daughters, Susanna, Mary and

Charlotte.

1839 John A. Wilson born, Muirkirk, Prince Georges Co. Md.

This is a town within 8 miles of Hyattsville Maryland. It is

somewhere between the Potomac River and the Ring road

around Washington D.C. Dr Joseph A. Mudd, "With Porter in

North Missouri" p 213, and preface.

On Lincoln Co. Mo. land maps he's listed as John A. Wilson.

The 1860 census says he was born in Virginia.

1835 1838 James S. Wilson Sr has a daughter born, who is alive in the

1840 census, but will die young. Another daughter also dies

young.

1840 Census John and Peter Rinaman are listed as heads of family in Carroll

County, Maryland. Peter is 20 to 30, his wife is 20 to 30, and

they have one daughter under 5. There is also a John Rineman

living near a George Kaltrider in Manheim Twnsp, York County,

Pa.

1840 Census James S. Wilson Sr is living in Prince Georges County,

Maryland. His family consists of John, age 1, James, age 6,

Stephen age 11, Sophia age 14, and a daughter who is under 5,

that we haven't identified. James and his wife are 47, and 50

according to the 1860 census. Living next door is Sarah Wilson,

age 60 to 70, probably James mother, a woman 50 to 60,

possibly his sister, and two men 30 to 40, possibly his brothers.

Sarah has two male slaves, one under 10, and 1, 10 to 24.

22 July 1843 Jacob Rinaman buys land in Carroll County Maryland.

4 July 1846 Sophia Wilson marries Peter Rinaman. Peter is a stone mason

who has worked on the west wing of the Capital building in

Washington D.C. He also worked on the first Post Office

building in Washington D. C. It is his second marriage.

His first wife was a Strickling. He has three daughters who

will be raised by his wife's family, Joshua Strickling, and a

family headed by John Shafffer. Peter and Sophia will have

nine children.

20 May 1847 Sophias and Peters first son Joseph is born in Baltimore,

Maryland.

They will lose a son, John, before the move to Missouri.

25 Jan 1849 Jacob Rinaman writes his will.

1850 Peter Rinaman (Rieman) 34, Sophia 23, Joseph 3,

Margaret 1, and James Wilson, 16, are living in

Baltimore City, 19th Ward, Baltimore County, Maryland.

Peter and James are listed as Stonemasons, so James is

learning the trade. The census does not list James Wilson Sr

or Stephen Wilson living in Washington D.C., or

Prince Georges County Maryland.

The Carroll County Maryland census, 8th district, lists a

Jacob Rinaman, age 67, from Penn, and his wife Catherine 56.

Jacob Rinaman Jr, his son, age 25, Peters brother,

is working as a laborer for Cole Cravin on a nearby farm.

The family of John S. Shaffer is

caring for Peters daughter Charlote Rineman, age 8.

Next door Joshua Strickling has taken in Peters other

daughters, Susanah Rineman age 10, and Mary E. Rineman

age 8, who may be Charlote's twin.

The girls staying with the Strickling's and Shaffer's are Peter

Rinamans daughters by his first wife.

William Rinaman, Peter's brother is listed in the Carroll

County, Maryland census. His wife is Casander, age 28.

They have a daughter Mary E. age 4, and a son William ,

10 months old. Savilia Boblitz, age 6 is living with them.

Based on the next census, he loses his wife, and son, and

remarries, before 1860. There are 12 Rinaman's listed

as heads of families in the 1850 census index of Maryland,

10 in Baltimore, 2 in Carroll County.

1851 James is 17, and has been educated in the common schools of

Maryland.

1853 1854 James moves to Strasburg, Va. where he works as a stone

mason. He writes poetry, apparently to Margaret Borum.

Margaret has had a illegitimate baby in 1849,

named Edward Monroe Borum.

10 Sept 1853 Jacob Rinaman, Peter's father has died, in Carroll County,

Maryland. He is 70.

1855 James S. Wilson, the elder, sells his land in Beltsville,

Prince Georges Co. Md. to Christian Brothers College,

and is ready to begin the move to Missouri with

the Peter Rinaman family.

3 Apr 1855 James S. Wilson marries Margaret Catherine Borum in

Strasburg, Shenandoah Co. Va. She is Lutheran, and they are

married by a Lutheran minister in her home. He is 21, she

is 26. James is a master stone mason. There is one report

that they leave almost immediately for Prairieville,

Pike Co. Mo. Edward Borum, her first child does not go.

June 1855 James and Margaret should be in Prairieville, Mo.

1 Sept 1855 Sophia's 5th child, William Henry Rinaman, is born

in Baltimore Md. and the family prepares to move to Missouri.

4 Sept 1855 Jacob Rinaman, Peter's father's will is being administered, in

Carroll County, Maryland.

Mar 1856 The James S. Wilson Sr. family should be on their way to

Prairieville, Mo.

31 Mar 1856 James and Margaret are in Prairieville, Pike Co. Mo. when

their son Henry Ambrose Wilson is born. Henry's obituary

says he was born on 3 March 1856.

Prairieville is a collection of Virginia emigrants that have built

plantations, and brought many slaves to the area.

20 May 1856 The Peter Rinaman family arrives in Pike Co. Mo. They have

been waiting for Joseph to finish the school year in Baltimore,

Maryland before moving. Family members include

James, Joseph, Margaret, and William Rinaman. The Peter

Rinaman family travels by rail to St Louis, the take a boat up

the Mississippi to Louisiana, Mo.

where they are met by James S. Wilson Sr and his family.

The elder Wilson's have been in Missouri a few months.

One source says near Paynesville. Joseph Rinaman's obituary

says he arrived in Lincoln county on 20 May 1856, his 9th

birthday. This is believed to be the date he arrived in Pike

County, as his mother's obituary says they didn't get to Lincoln

County till Sept. The Wm. H. Rinaman obiturary says he

moved to Missouri when he was six months old. That would

have been in March 1856.

Sept 1856 Sophia and Peter Rinaman, and family, arrive at James

and Margaret's house in Lincoln Co. Mo. They immediately

begin to build the house they will live in till their deaths.

Sophia's obit. Sophia obit may be the one that is wrong, as

building a cabin, starting in Sept is a bit late in the year. Peter

will eventually clear his land of walnut trees,

and hold the logs for the itinerate furniture makers who

periodically came through and made furniture for the settlers.

James apparently has rented a house and some land.

It probably is the place he will buy in Nov 1856.

James S. Wilson Sr. and wife, will live with their sons,

Margaret and the baby. James Wilson Sr is a shoemaker,

and will farm.

Oct 1856 Margaret's brother, Bushrod Borum and sister, Mary Rebecca

Setzer, her husband and daughters, Emma and Mary have

arrived in Paynesville, Pike Co. Mo.

14 Nov 1856 James buys 160 acres from John and Susan E. Maddex of

Shelby County, Missouri, for $500. The land is the W1/2 of

NE ¼ of Section 3, and the W ½ of the SE ¼ of Section 3

in Township 49 North, Range 2 West in Lincoln County.

This land will become the Wilson, Rinaman farms. Deed

Book N, Lincoln County, Mo.

30 Dec 1856 James and Margaret sell 80 acres of their land to Peter

Rinaman for $500. The land is the W ½ of the W ½ of the

NE ¼ of Section 3, and the W ½ of the W ½ of the SE ¼ of

Section 3, Township49 N, R 2 W. This becomes the Rinaman

farm. Deed Book N, Lincoln County, Mo. Peter will continue

his trade as a stone mason, and farm.

1857 Mary Rebecca Setzer, Margaret sister gets homesick, and

she and her family return to Virginia.

Fall 1857 Bushrod moves on to Boone County Missouri, to live with his

cousins the DeViers.

7 Dec 1857 James and Margaret sell 40 acres of their land to James Sr.

for $500. This land is the SE ¼ of the W ½ of the NE ¼ of

Section 3, and the NE ¼ of the W ½ of the SE ¼ in Section 3,

Township 49 N, R 2 West. Lincoln County Deed Book N.

James and his wife now have the central 40 acres with the

house, and his dad has 20 acres on each end of the piece. The

Rinamans own the 80 acres to the west. The Wilson, Rinaman

houses are just across the creek from each other. The land will

stay in this configuration for many years, until Peter Rinaman

buys all the Wilson land. James has invested $500 in 160

acres, probably with at least one house on it, and has ended up

with 40 acres, a house, and $1000 cash.

Jan or Feb 1858 James and his wife are on the way back to Strasburg, Va.

Margaret would not want to travel during the last couple

months of the pregnancy. There is now a considerable network

of railroads east of the Mississippi, so travels times may have

been just a few days.

5 May 1858 James wife Margaret is back in Strasburg, Va. for the birth

of their son Charles Oscar Wilson. He is Oscar

D. Wilson, in some legal documents, continuing the family

tradition of playing with your name. His obituary says he is

Oscar Dunreath Wilson. Charles is apparently a nickname.

1858-1859 Troops, which are designated the 1st Brigade of Missouri

Volunteer Militia, are enlisted, and sent west to deal with raiders

from Kansas. About 580 men are involved.

1860 Stephen Wilson is listed in the 1860 census for Washington

D.C. He is working as an express driver. William Rineman,

Peters brother, is in Hampstead District, Carroll Co. Maryland.

He is 37,farming, wife Charlott 31, children Mary, 14, John, 6,

Amanus 3, and Coleman 1. A 16 year old girl, Savilla Bobiltz

is living with the family. Jacob Jr, Peters bother, is also in the

same area. He is 34, married to Rebecca, 25. They have

daughters, Sarah 3, and Margant 2. Peter's mother, Catherine

was not found, and may have died.

1860-1861 The Missouri State Militia is the only formal stat military unit

in the state. Men on both sides of the secession question

belong, in mixed units.

14 May 1860 John Wilson marries Sarah Catherine Sawner,

(Sauner?). The name on the land records and census

is Sonner. The marriage is performed by the

Reverend Robert S. Duncan, a Baptist minister of the

Bethlehem Baptist Church, which will later become the

Fairview Baptist church. The marriage record is partially

incorrect showing Sarah with an E for a middle initial

rather than a C. It is a C on the title of the document.

The title and the interior details also disagree on the

spelling of her last name. 1860 census, and

Lincoln County Marriage Records, Vol. 3.

Sarah's folks are Henry and Jane Sonner, grandmother is

Sarah Myers. Family 293, 1850 census. John is 21, Sarah

is either 18 or 20, depending on which census record is right.

Sarah's dad dies in 1858.

19June 1860 John and Catherine are living with his father and mother

on the home place. No further data on Catherine

or what happened. John is listed as having been in

school and as farming, in the 1860 census. John and

Catherine are both listed as having been born in Virginia.

Sarah Catherine's remaining family are living on an adjacent

farm, but will move on to other parts of

Missouri. Her oldest brother, George C., and wife also live on

an adjacent farm. He will be in Vernon County in 1887,

then move to Oregon county. He is there in the 1900 census,

and dies in 1914. Her mother Jane, and sister, Helen A..

move to Vernon County, and die in 1898, and 1909,

respectively. Two brothers, Henry C., and Thomas J.,

become neighbors of the Wilson/Rinaman families.

They are still landowners in 1878, but gone by 1900.

Thomas J. moves to Vernon county. The Circuit Court

records of Lincoln county have been searched through 1869,

and no divorce proceedings against John Wilson have

been found. James and Margaret and sons are not

living at the home place. There is an unoccupied house

shown next to his fathers house. 1860 census.

Summer 1860 Governor Clairborn Jackson begins creating pro south State

Militia units. Frank Blair, operating out of St Louis begins

organizing pro union Home guard units. John is probably in

a pro south unit, and James, if he is in the state, is probably

in a pro union unit.

16 Oct 1860 The census shows Margaret Wilson, 30, Henry Wilson, 4,

and Oscar Wilson 2, living with Isaac and Scottie Borum,

Margaret's parents, in Strasburg, Virginia. Also at home are

a brother and sister of Margaret, and her illegitimate son

Edward, age 12. The whereabouts of James Wilson has

not been determined. Dr Cyrus Peterson, in his biography of

James, says "Without wishing to lift the veil from so delicate a

personal matter, it may be stated that the common report alleged

that this breaking up of family ties was due to a difference in

political sentiments. The unfortunate event seemed to fasten an

unbroken melancholy upon this unfortunate man, as he was one

of the saddest mortals the writer ever knew in the following few

years of his life."