Wilson stories

Wilson stories related on father's day 2009

Written by H. Allen Wilson IV's point of view: related from and edited by Howard A. Wilson III-

My Great Grandfather Howard Allen Wilson. (1st) "haywire Wilson" to his friends- Rancher/Farmer and Scavenger (reselling found items like metal or anything "lying around" by the train tracks.)

My Dad's Grandmother- Clara Mason (married name) second wife of Louie Mason.

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My Grandfather Howard Allen Wilson Jr. "Junior or Uncle Jr." to the family - mechanic and industrial metal logy worker heat treating- his wife would read the "text books" to him which he had difficulty reading. 

My Dad's Mom- Edith Patricia (Mason) Wilson was named "Patricia" because she was born on St. Patrick's Day and went by Patricia or Pat. She was the second daughter of Clara's and the third daughter of Louie's.

 The LDS church near Lodi Lake was built on Mason Property which is why my Patriarch knew the Wilson family well and spoke well of my GGF and GF. The church is Ham Lane near the intersection of Ham Lane.  and Turner Rd.

The old Mason ranch that included vineyards and the Lodi Lake, had pigs that would swim across the lake to islands in the a.m. and back in the p.m. (On two occasions he built bridges to the islands from a point on west of the lake near the Woodbridge Cemetery but the next spring runoffs took them out each time.) Louie Mason wanted to give the lake and the land around it to the city of Lodi. He talked to his neighbor to his east Mr. Beckman about his plans and that it would so much nicer for the new park to have access to the islands from the east and could he also give some of his land to the city to make this possible? This was agreeable to Mr. Beckman so a strip of land on the west side of his property, east side of the lake, was transferred to Mr. Mason then Mr. Mason gave, the lake, islands, the land south of the lake north of Tuner Rd., and enough land on the east side for park goers to have access to the islands, but kept in his name a narrow strip of land on the east side in his name, that he and daughters built homes on and moved into.  He sold the old family home south of the lake across Turner Rd. 

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My dad's mom's mother's family descended from the Lytle family in the west of Ireland - English Irish The family lived in a stone house overlooking Sligo Bay, County Sligo, Ireland. The son was sent to college where he met a girl from a neighboring county, also a student there, and fell in love with her. He brought her home to his family, but his family didn't think she was good enough for him. He wouldn't give her up, so they kicked him out, and the couple came to the US.

 

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Howard Allen Wilson III- my dad – December 8, 1945 NAVY Sea Bee Construction Electrician

Dad's adopted sister- Mary Elizabeth Wilson

Some Protestant Christian German on my GP Wilson's side (?)

Asay's my (mom's side) - English (?) or maybe French from Canada- ask Grammy