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As laid out by the "bogus" legislature, Wilson was in the southernmost tier, and comprised all that is now Montgomery County. It was twenty-four miles square. Later in its session, this legislature attached Wilson County to Allen, and made Cofachique the permanent county seat. Upon the election of the free State legislature a new set of lines was given all the counties in the third tier, and they were shortened up an aggregate of twenty-six miles. All this territory was given to Wilson, which thus became fifty miles long north and south. In the final re-adjustment of lines by the legislature of 1867, this county was cut down to its present dimensions and Montgomery made of the southern portion. It is now bounded on the north by Woodson; east by Neosho; south by Montgomery and west by Elk and Greenwood counties.₁

Organized in 1865. County Seat, Fredonia. This county originally extended to the south line of the state, and was named in honor of Colonel Hiero T. Wilson who lived in Fort Scott from September 1843. He was the first white person to settle there.₂

1. William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas
published in 1883 by A. T. Andreas, Chicago, IL.

2. History of Kansas, Noble Prentis, (Winfield: E.P. Greer. 1899)

Biographies
Description	File Size	Date	Submitter
Leasure, Ezra D. 1857 -	3K	Apr 2007	Joy Fisher
Longenecker, Nathaniel W. 1850 -	2K	Apr 2007	Joy Fisher
Cemeteries
Census Records
Description	File Size	Date	Submitter
1870 Wilson County, KS Census	4 kb	2000	Amy K. Davis
History - Directories
Description	File Size	Date	Submitter
Wilson County Medical Directory 1920	4K	Mar 2009	Joy Fisher
Military Records
Description	File Size	Date	Submitter
McGee, William May 19, 1881	1K	Mar 2009	Barbara Stenberg
Obituaries
Description	File Size	Date	Submitter
Bauersfeld, Virtus L. Jr November 12, 2004	1K	Aug 2007	Oz
EVLIN, William A.; d 1918	3 kb	Aug 2002	Mary Celine Scott
Leonard, Vernon Calvin September 5, 2004	1K	Jul 2007	Oz
Neff, Eli August 27, 1910	5K	Jun 2006	Jennifer Neff
Neff, O.P. [Homer/Omer] March 15, 1937	3K	Jun 2006	Jennifer Neff
Neff, Sarah Frances Nee Ashby April 1936	3K	Jun 2006	Jennifer Neff
Waugh, James Russel October 8, 2005	1K	Aug 2007	Oz

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