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Lee Wilson

Born in Missouri about 1907 and last recorded at Pittsburg in 1940.

born about 1907 in Missouri, United States died after 1940

Lee Wilson was born about 1907, in Missouri according to the old family tree's reading of his 1910 census entry; the tree makes him a son of William Alfred Wilson, a son of Elijah Daniel "Lige" Wilson and Sarah Ellen "Ella" Chandler of McDonald County, Missouri.1–2

By 1935 Lee was living at Pittsburg, in Crawford County, the coal-mining and smelting town in the southeast corner of Kansas, where his father, "Alford" Wilson, was living in January 1937, when he gave the particulars for the death certificate of his mother, Lee's grandmother Ella.3–4 In April 1940 Lee, thirty-three, was at 1104 Smelter Street in Pittsburg with his wife, Mary E., thirty-one, a son of eight, born in Arkansas, and a two-year-old daughter (both living).3 What became of him after 1940 has not been found.

What we know

Proven

  • Birth in Missouri, 1907
  • Last known alive, 1940
  • 2 homes, from the census and other records

What's still open

  • Sources. The 1940 census index (his son's line, read in the death checks of 27 Sep 2026); his own 1940 line and the image have not been read.
  • Father (probable). The old tree links him to William Alfred Wilson; its evidence is presumably the 1910 census line it attaches, which has not been read.
  • Wife. , 31 in 1940; her maiden name is not known.

Sources

Sources 1–2

1 1910 U.S. Federal Census, his line
2 Old Ancestry family tree "Hegnauer, 1907

Sources 3–4

3 1940 U.S. Federal Census, Pittsburg
4 Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, 1937

Life in time

about 1907

Birth, Missouri, United States

proven Sources 1, 3

How we know

  1. 1907 Birth about 1907 · Missouri, United States · proven

    Aged 33 in April 1940. Missouri is the old family tree's reading of his line of the 1910 census, which has not been read here.

    His age in the 1940 census (index read) and the old tree's citation of his 1910 census line (born about 1907, Missouri; not read) agree on about 1907.

    Sources 1, 3

  2. 1935 Residence Pittsburg, Crawford · proven

    His residence five years before the 1940 census.

    The 1935-residence column of the 1940 census, as indexed.

    Source 3

  3. 1940 Residence Pittsburg, Crawford · proven

    1104 Smelter [Street]. Head, 33, with his wife Mary E., 31, a son, 8, born in Arkansas, and a daughter, 2 (both living; not named).

    The index of his son's line of the 1940 census (read 27 Sep 2026) gives the household; his own line and the image have not been read.

    Source 3

  4. 1940 Last known alive after 1940 · proven

    The 1940 census is the last record of him read.

    No record of his death has been read.

    Source 3

  • proven

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Places in this life

2 places, in order
1 2
  1. 1 Missouri, United States Birth about 1907
  2. 2 Pittsburg, Crawford County Residence 1935 · Residence 1940

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Family

Father William Alfred Wilson 1886–c. 1972
This page Lee Wilson c. 1907–aft. 1940
Wife Mary E. b. c. 1909
Child Living Wilson living
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The evidence 4 facts with their grades, 4 sources, and the research notes

Facts

Fact Date Place Grade Sources
Birth about 1907 Missouri, United States proven 1 , 3
Residence 1935 Pittsburg, Crawford, Kansas, United States proven 3
Residence 1940 Pittsburg, Crawford, Kansas, United States proven 3
Death after 1940 proven 3

Research notes

  • Sources: The 1940 census index (his son's line, read in the death checks of 27 Sep 2026); his own 1940 line and the image have not been read. His 1910 census line is known only as the old family tree cites it.3, 1
  • Father (probable): The old tree links him to William Alfred Wilson; its evidence is presumably the 1910 census line it attaches, which has not been read.2, 1 The link fits: William Alfred ("Alford Wilson") was living at Pittsburg, Kansas, in Jan 1937, and Lee was there in 1935 and 1940.4, 3 The 1910 census image should be read to confirm that Lee was then in William's household. His mother has not been identified.
  • Cousins at Pittsburg: In March 1950 Woodrow Elgia Wilson, Lee's first cousin (a son of James Israel Wilson, William Alfred's brother), gave Pittsburg, Kansas, as his home when he married (see his profile).
  • Wife: Mary E., 31 in 1940; her maiden name is not known.3
  • Leads: the 1910 census image; the 1920 and 1930 censuses (with William Alfred Wilson); the 1950 census of Pittsburg; his WWII draft registration (1940–1942, Kansas); Crawford County, Kansas, or Arkansas marriage records (before 1932).
  • This profile is part of the Hegnauer one-name study, as a first cousin of Woodrow Elgia Wilson.

Working notes

  • Son of William Alfred Wilson (H0205); 1910 census (7884/185915526); mother not identified; old tree 165462681 @I252151822404@

Sources

  1. 1

    1910 U.S. Federal Census, his line (record 185915526), as cited in the old Ancestry family tree "Hegnauer (Old)" (165462681) for "Lee Wilson", born about 1907, Missouri; the household, the place and the image have not been read in this study.

    Ancestry

  2. 2

    Old Ancestry family tree "Hegnauer (Old)" (165462681), person "Lee Wilson": born about 1907, Missouri (cited to his 1910 census line, 7884/185915526); entered as the son of William Alfred Wilson (no mother) and the father of a son (living; not named here); no other record attached.

  3. 3

    1940 U.S. Federal Census, Pittsburg, Crawford County, Kansas, 1104 Smelter [Street]: Lee Wilson (head, 33), Mary E. Wilson (wife, 31), a son (8, born Arkansas) and a daughter (2) [both living; names withheld]; residence in 1935 Pittsburg (the son's line, record 64558891, index read 27 September 2026; Lee's own line and the image have not been read).

    Ancestry

  4. 4

    Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Certificate of Death, file no. 538 (1937), registration district 160, Sarah Ellen Phillips [his grandmother]: died 6 January 1937 in West Dolan Township, Cass County; widow; born March 4, 1863, Crawford Co., Mo.; informant Alford [Alfred] Wilson, Pittsburg, Kansas; image, Missouri State Archives, "Missouri Death Certificates, 1910–1975" (sos.mo.gov/images/archives/deathcerts/1937/1937_00000538.PDF).

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Evidence Explained

Hegnauer One-Name Study, “Lee Wilson (H0312, c. 1907–aft. 1940),” hegnauer.family (https://hegnauer.family/people/h0312-lee-wilson/ : accessed 28 September 2026).

Chicago (notes)

“Lee Wilson (H0312, c. 1907–aft. 1940),” hegnauer.family, Hegnauer One-Name Study, accessed September 28, 2026, https://hegnauer.family/people/h0312-lee-wilson/.

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