_William HAWKINS _
_John HAWKINS _________|
| |_Jane HAWKINS ____
|
|--James HAWKINS
|
| __________________
|_Frances THORPE\THORP _|
|__________________
__
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| |__
|
|--Reta Wynona HODGE
|
| __
|__|
|__
_Wade Wallace JOLLY _+
_Stanley Gene JOLLY _|
| |_Roselle WILHITE ____
|
|--Linda Bernice JOLLY
|
| _____________________
|_Bernice MORGAN _____|
|_____________________
_Martin Emelis LOVITT __+
_Allan Monroe LOVETT _|
| |_Mary Elizabeth SAVAGE _+
|
|--Martin Emelis LOVETT
|
| _John Butler JOHNSON ___
|_Ada Isadore JOHNSON _|
|_Nancy Patience ELKINS _
[955]
Martin and his second wife, Vera, adopted his sisters son Jimmy Don Cross
when his mother died 2 weeks after childbirth.
_______________________
_Darlan L. MAHLE ____|
| |_______________________
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|--Douglas Veron MAHLE
|
| _Reznon Douglas DAVIS _+
|_Billie Belle DAVIS _|
|_Nina Mae BUTLER ______
[523] still living - details excluded
________________________
_Vandy MOSLEY ____|
| |________________________
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|--Nancy Lou MOSLEY
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| _Otis LINN _____________
|_Martha Lou LINN _|
|_Lucy Gabriella WILSON _+
____________________________
_Charlie Daniel MULLINS _|
| |____________________________
|
|--Charlie Ruth MULLINS
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| _W.F. (Will) BURGE _________
|_Mary Ann BURGE _________|
|_Josephine (Josie) DOUGLAS _+
_Van L. PATRICK ___
_Joseph Merle PATRICK _|
| |_Leedonia DOUGLAS _+
|
|--Mary Elizabeth PATRICK
|
| ___________________
|_Linda WRIGHT _________|
|___________________
[693] still living - details excluded
__
__|
| |__
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|--Pat SIMPSON
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| __
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_David Carroll WILSON ___+
_David Carroll WILSON _|
| |_Jane (Jinny) CAROTHERS _
|
|--George Washington WILSON
|
| _________________________
|_Mary Ann POTEET ______|
|_________________________
[255]
G. W. WILSON, farmer of Grayson county, was born in Sumner county, Tennessee,
September 22, 1841, and is a son of David C. and Mary A. (Poteet) Wilson. Mr.
Wilson's father was also a native of Sumner county, Tennessee, and one of the
earliest settlers of Grayson county, Texas, having come to this county in
1847. He secured a section of land from the Peters' Land Company, and on this
made his home until his death, which occurred March 11, 1886. He was a farmer
and for many years a teacher also. He possessed a natural aptitude for
teaching, being a great lover of the young and by taste and training a
bookworm. He was very successful in schoolroom work and was universally liked
by all his pupils and parents. He always led a quite (sic), useful, moral
life, but never professed religion, nor ever became identified with any church
organization until in his declining years. To go back one step further in the
ancestral line it may be mentioned that the Wilsons were among the earliest
settlers of middle Tennessee. David Wilson, the grandfather of the subject of
this sketch, being at one time one of the most prominent men in Gallatin
county, that State. He represented Gallatin county in the legislature of the
territory of Tennessee, and he was otherwise prominent in the politics of his
State. Mary A. (Poteet) Wilson, mother of G. W. Wilson, was also a native of
Sumner county, Tennessee, and a descendant of one of the early settled
families of that county. She died in April, 1871.
[256]
G. W. Wilson is the eldest child and the only son in a family of five
children. His sisters' names were--Isabella Jane, Louisa, Amanda Ann and
Priscilla Angeline. He was just four years old when his father moved to Texas.
He was reared in Grayson county, now lives within one mile of the old
homestead, and was educated in the common schools of the county and under his
father's supervision. In 1861 he entered the Confederate army as a member of
Captain Thomas H. Bowen's company and Colonel B. Warren Stone's regiment. He
served in this command only a few months when he was discharged; he again
enlisted, entering Captain James Young's company and Colonel L. J. Martin's
regiment, served in Texas, Arkansas and the Indian Territory, and at the close
of the war returned home to Grayson county and resumed farming.
[257]
On December 27, 1863, Mr. Wilson married Miss Susan Jane Foster, of Collin
county, Texas. She died March 16, 1882, leaving the following
children--Mollie, James H. Susanna Belle, George David and Ira Edwin. On
November 12, 1882, Mr. Wilson married Mrs. Nancy P. Henderson, and to this
union has been born one child, Eulah Edith.
[258]
Mr. Wilson was elected justice of the peace of his precinct in November, 1886.
He is a prominent Alliance man and a member of the Christian church.
[259]
BIOGRAPHICAL SOUVENIR OF THE STATE OF TEXAS, Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co.,
1889. pg. 907. (Photocopied at the Texas State Archives, Austin, TX)
[260] George Washington Wilson
[261]
George was born in Carroll County, Tennessee on Sept. 21, 1841, the first child of David Carroll Wilson and Mary Ann Poteet.1 During the late 1840's the Wilson clan moved to Texas.
On the 10th of September 1861, he enlisted at Dallas, Texas in Col. Stone's Company D, 2 Regiment Texas Cavalry (also called the 6th Texas Cavalry) for a period of 12 months. His horse was valued at $135.00 and equipment at $15.00. Age
given was 20 years old. On a company muster roll dated Oct. 31, 1861, under remarks: "Detailed to attend on sick Bentonville", was written. (This would be Bentonville, Arkansas.) While attending the sick at Bentonville he came down with typhoid
fever.
The Certificate of Disability for Discharge dated Jan 1, 1862 stated that he had been unfit for duty for two months. Capt. Thomas H. Boren wrote "I herein state that the said Geo. W. Wilson has suffered from a severe and prolific attact
of fever-and not- withstanding the proper medical aid and good attention given, him his disease terminated in a state of Insanity - which renders it necessary for him to be discharged"
Ham. Bradford, Acting Assistant Surgeon, 6th Regiment Texas Cavalry wrote the following "Having suffered from a long attack of typoid fever, which resulted in a state of insanity and in consequence of which he is in my opinion unfit to
perform longer the duties of a soldier."
George gave the following address on the certificate, Mantua, Collin County, Texas. He was listed on the 1860 U.S. Census of Collins County, Texas, Prec. # 2, Mantua Post Office, living with his parents David C. Wilson and Mary A. Wilson,
Family No. 937.
According to Georgia Ruth Baker, George also served under Col. L. M. Martin later in the war.
On the 27th of December in 1863 (1864) George and Susan Jane Foster were married in Collins County, Texas. Twelve children were born, including two sets of twins, before she died March 16, 1882 in Grayson County, Texas. Georgia Ruth Baker,
a granddaugher of George
and Susan, started working on her Wilson family records during the 1950's while her mother, "Mollie" Baker was still alive. She listed all the children, including six who died very young.
George then married Nancy Patience (Rodgers) Henderson Nov. 12, 1882 in Grayson Co. Tx. Nancy's two stepsons would have been grown by this time, but she still had four sons by her other marriages. Besides Nancy's four sons and the five
children still living from George's first marriage they also had an aunt living with them. George's aunt, Prudy Poteet came to help George with the children after the death of his first wife. Prudy died in 1902.
The only child of George's second marriage was Eulah Edith, born September 19, 1883 in Grayson County. Edith had seven half brothers, two halfsisters and two stepbrothers. On the 16th of November 1902, in Grayson County, Edith married
James Franklin McCrary, son of Thomas and Mary Jane (Jones) McCrary of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.
George listed his occupation as a farmer on the 1870 and 1880 U.S. Census records of Grayson County. David C. and Mary A. Wilson, signed a deed on the 30th of Nov. 1866, giving George 108 acres of land near them in Grayson County. Later
George purchased more land from his father after his mothers death in 1871.
[262]
On January 19, 1917, George died in Van Alstyn, Grayson County. Burial was Jan. 20, in the Van Alstyn Cemetery. Nancy lived with her daughter, Edith McCrary, until her death July 29, 1923 in Clinton, Custer County, Oklahoma. She too is
buried in the Van Alstyn Cemetery in Grayson Co. Tx.
[263]
1.Carroll County, Tennessee was given as place of birth on Disability Discharge paper from Company D, 6th Regiment Texas Cavalry, Confederate States, dated January 1, 1862. National Archives Military Records. David Wilson, George's grandfather,
purchased land and moved to Carroll County in the late 1830's. It was there that David married his second wife, a widow, Sarah Driggers the 23 Dec 1844.
[264] George Washington Wilson's Obituary
[265]
Van Alstyne Pioneer Dead
George Wilson, a Prominent Citizen
of that section, passed away
there yesterday
[266]
George Wilson, 75 years old, a pioneer citizen of Van Alstyne died at his home there yesterday. Funeral services will be held there this afternoon, followed by interment in the Van Alstyne cemetery, under the direction of Haynes and
Spores undertakers of this city.
Mr. Wilson is survived by his wife and 5 children. He was an exconfederate soldier, and was a member of Capt. T.H. Bowen's Co. in the 5th Texas Cavalry. The people of Grayson County will learn with much regret of the passing of this old
pioneer. The Sherman Courier, Jan. 20, 1917, p. 5, column 6. (Microfilm copy is in the public library, Sherman, Tx.)
[267]
G. W. Wilson
Step Father of Former County Super-
intendant Tom Smith Dead.
[268]
Funeral services over the remains of G.W. Wilson, Grayson county pioneer citizen and civil war veteran, who died at his home in Van Alstyne yesterday morning at the age of 75, were held this afternoon, burial being in the Van Alstyne
cemetery.
Mr. Wilson was one of the best known citizens of this county. He located near Van Alstyne in 1845, being one of the first settlers in this part of the county. At the outbreak of the civil war he enlisted as a member of Thos. H.
Brown's (sic) company and fought throughout the four years on the side of the Confederacy, returning to his home at the close of the war.
Mr. Wilson had twelve children by his first marriage, four of whom are now living as follows: Mrs. W.E. Baker of El Dorado, Mrs. J.H. Henderson of Nacoma, Ga., Geo. Wilson and Ira Wilson of Oklahoma. He is also survived by his second
wife, Mrs. N. P. Wilson, who is the mother of Prof. Tom Smith, former county superintendent of schools, of this city. Prof. and Mrs. Smith have been at Van Alstyne several days. Sherman Democrat, Jan. 20, 1917, p. 4, column 2. (Microfilm copy is in
the public library, Sherman, Tx.)
[269] [Note: The fifth child, Eula Edith McCrary was not named.]
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transcribed by:
Carolyn G. Smith
May 31, 1996
File: wilsgwob.wpd
[271]
George served during the Civil War in Colnel Warren B. Stone's Regiment and
Captain Thomas H. Bowen's Company. He also served last part of war under
Colnel L.M. Martin's Regiment and Captain James Young's Company. George's
cause of death was dropsy.
_Robert WILSON ___+
_Zaccheus Sr WILSON _|
| |_Rachel PRICKLOW _
|
|--James WILSON
|
| __________________
|_Frances UNKNOWN ____|
|__________________
_William (Bill) Carouthers WILSON _+
_Winfield Scott (Pomp) WILSON _|
| |_Eliza LEACH ______________________
|
|--Miriam Elizabeth WILSON
|
| ___________________________________
|_Alice Clorinda BAKER _________|
|___________________________________