Readily available records document relatively early migrants from Wilson County to Massachusetts, most settling in the Boston suburbs.
- Mafuta, Laura Whitfield, Salem, bef. 1874
- McLeod, Abbie Holloway, Boston, bef. 1897
- Harris, William H., Cambridge, bef. 1899
- Hill, Samuel N., Pittsfield, bef. 1904
- Dasher, Carrie Pitts, Boston, betw. 1905 and 1911, Boston (prior, in New York City, and after in Cleveland, Ohio
- Holloway, Harry Groves, Roxbury, bef. 1842
- Cutler, Charles Jesse, Jr., Weston, bef. 1940
- Armstrong, Ernest, and wife Eleanor Armstrong, Roxbury, bef. 1941