Celah Wilson

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Celah Russell Wilson"Celah Russell, daughter of Gen. William Russell and Tabitha Adams Russell, was born at her father's home on Clinch river, April 2d, 1772. In the fall of 1789, she made a visit to her brother William in Fayette county, Kentucky. While there she made the acquaintance of Mr. Robert Wilson, late of Maryland, but then a resident of the neighborhood. His addresses to her were accepted, and in the following May, 1790, they were married at her brother's house. It is found that her brother, John Russell, went from Virginia to Kentucky to be present at the wedding. All accounts agree in representing her as a model of all womanly virtues, and her marriage proved to be, in after years, a happy and fortunate event. She went as a bride to her husband's home at Cedar Grove, where they lived to the close of their lives. Their graves are yet to be seen at their old homestead, which has never passed from their descendants, being now owned by a great grand-son. Mr. Wilson was the son of Edward and Rebecca Wilson, of Maryland, and was born January 28th, 1764. Some account of his coming to Maryland, and of his early life in Kentucky, is given by the widow of his grandson, Robert Wilson, who with his son owns and lives at Cedar Grove. She says. "Thirty-eight years ago, Mr. Samuel Hambleton, of Maryland (now dead many years), then the oldest purser in the United States Navy, and who had fought under Commodore Perry, gave me an account of the farewell dinner given to young Wilson, at Rolles' Range, Talbot county, Maryland. The repast was most beautiful, the heavy mahogany table being loaded with every variety of game, fish, oysters, crabs, and terrapin, flanked by all kinds of edibles. The guests were the elite of the country, gathered together to bid farewell and God-speed to a relative, regarded as taking his life in his hands in starting to the "dark and bloddy ground." The sturdy pioneer, leaving home, kindred, and freinds, journeyed to his new home. On arriving at his destination he purchased several hundred acres of land from the "Meredith survey," and built cabins to shelter himself and negroes, thinned out the cane-brakes and forests, put bells on horses and cattle in order to find them, and in reasonable space of time built a comfortable dwelling-house." He then took as a help-meet, Miss Celah Russell, from Virginia, who came to preside over his new home, and he realized that he had made a good start in life. Time wore on; he planted orchards and they bore fruit, he raised corn and made his whiskey, and his apples and peaches being fine and abundant, he remembered the cider and peach-le-cure in the cellars of his old guardian, Frisbie Freeland, in Maryland, and he straightway made them for himself, filling his cellar with one, and his garret with the other. Suddenly one day he discovered his house to be on fire; the peach-le-cure in the garret made the flames lick the sky. The next day there remained but the smouldering ruins of his house, but with genuine Maryland grit, he gathered up the nails - quite an item in those days - and in the fullness of time, the present dwelling arose, which has seen five generations." William Russell and his descendants by Des Cognets, Anna Russell; 1884; Page 106
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