He married
Lucretia W. (?). CENSUS: Listed with mother in the 1860 census.
David was born at
South Carolina circa 1836. He was the son of
Maxwell Wilson and
Martha Moffatt. David was listed as the head of a family on the 1880 Census at
Paxton, Ford Co., Illinois. 1880 Illinois, Ford Co., City of Paxton, taken 22 June 1880, lists the following family at dwelling # 421, family # 438: David M. Wilson, white, male, age 45, married, farmer, born in South Carolina; Lucretia Wilson, white, female, age 46, wife, married, keeping house, born in Indiana; Elizabeth S. Maxwell, white, female, age 42, single, school teacher, born in New York, parents born in New York.. David died on 8 April 1884. His body was interred in April 1884 at
Paxton, Ford Co., Illinois, at Glen Cemetery.