David Wilson was born in the early 19th century in Virginia. He married Annie Vinyard and they had several children. One of their daughters, Martha, married Peter Politte. David Wilson moved his family from Virginia to Jefferson County, Missouri, in 1834. After the death of his wife in the 1840s and his wife’s mother on November 16, 1844, Annie’s father, Christian Vinyard, moved in with the Wilson family. Christian’s son, Elisha Vinyard, was born in Kentucky and moved to Clay County, Missouri, and then to Oregon, where he had a successful farm, married, and had two children. David Wilson died in 1855. Martha’s husband, Peter Politte, moved to California during the Gold Rush, but he failed to find any substantial wealth there, suffered from bad health, and died in 1864. David Wilson’s brother Jonathan M. Wilson (born 1797) was a slave trader in New Orleans. His daughter Rachel married Elkanah D.W. Carper, a doctor who graduated from the University of Maryland’s Medical School, and they lived together in Baltimore. Elkanah Carper died in April 1852 at New Castle, Virginia, at the age of 34.