Robert Wilson - Cloy
Robert Wilson was born in Overton in 1819, and in 1840 was living in Cloy, which consisted of just a few dwellings: most there now have been rebuilt since the 1840’s. He and his brother Richard were baptised 18th October by Henry Royle and were therefore among the very first converts in North Wales. He emigrated to America in 1841, although he didn’t arrive in the Salt Lake Valley until 1849.
In 1856, along with Henry Woolley and many others, he participated in the rescue of two handcart companies which were stranded due to early snowstorms in Wyoming, almost 200 miles from Salt Lake City.
Robert Wilson
He eventually settled in Oakley, Idaho, where he died in 1895. Robert’s father William Price Wilson was a master builder and helped to build Overton Bridge, to the northwest of Overton, and where the early baptisms may well have taken place.