Bond dated 25 Jul 1842 in the amount of two thousand dollars appointing Allen Cahoon guardian of Martha Elizabeth Cahoon & Wilson Cahoon, orphans, David Cahoon, Ludford Cahoon & W. B. Cahoon securities.
Bond dated 26 Jan 1846 in the amount of one thousand five hundred dollars appointing Allen Cahoon guardian of Elizabeth Cahoon & Wilson Cahoon, orphans, Chas. McClees & Isaac Meekins securities.
Bond dated 23 Apr 1855 in the amount of five thousand dollars appointing Henry Gibson Senr. guardian to Wilson Cahoon, minor or orphan, Robt. A. Shield & James Brickhouse securities.
Court order dated 8 Jan 1858 for Henry Gibson to appear in court on the fourth Monday in January 1858 and make returns of his ward's estate as required by law.
Bond dated 25 Jan 1858 in the amount of five thousand dollars appointing Henry Gibson guardian to Wilson Cahoon, minor orphan, Abram Rhodes & Henderson Lewis securities.
North Carolina Archives
Loose Estate Papers
Tyrrell County (C.R.096.508.13), Box 13
Cahoon, Wilson, 1849
Bond dated 25 Oct 1849 in the amount of one thousand dollars appointing Charles McClees administrator of the estate of Wilson Cohoon deceased, Jos. Alexander, L. Babbit & Thos. Swain securities. (Back side of bond says it is for Wilson Liverman.)
Transcriber's Notes:
Tyrrell County marriage bonds show the marriage of Wilson Cahoon to Chloe Gibson on 4 Dec 183-; also Willson Cohoon to Elizabeth Jones on 10 Apr 1834. Elizabeth Jones was probably the first wife of Wilson Cahoon and Chloe the second and the mother of Wilson Cahoon.
Wilson Cahoon, son of Wilson Cahoon, appears in the 1850 and 1860 censuses of Tyrrell County in the household of Henry Gibson, aged 10 and 20 respectively.
North Carolina Troops, 1861 - 1865, A Roster lists Wilson G. Cahoon, private, in Company A, 32nd North Carolina Infantry Regiment, which consisted mostly of men from Tyrrell County. "Resided in Tyrrell County and enlisted at Portsmouth, Virginia at age 22, November 15, 1861. Present or accounted for until he was left at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, as a nurse for the wounded and was captured on July 5, 1863. Confined at Point Lookout, Maryland, August 21, 1863. Died at Point Lookout on February 9, 1864. Cause of death not reported." Middle name probably Gibson since that was his mother's maiden name. He and my gggrandfather, George W. Merritt, were both wards and grandsons of Henry Gibson, my gggrandfather being the illegitimate son of Henry's son, Joseph. They both went to Portsmouth and joined Company A at the same time and both ended up in Point Lookout, George being lucky enough to survive.
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