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|--Ethylleen DODSON
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|_Ethylleen DODSON _|
|_Cora WILSON ____+
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_Robert David KINKEAD ___________
_Cecilius Calvert KINKEAD _|
| |_Alice Winfield (Winnie) WILSON _+
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|--Emily Alice KINKEAD
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|_Alice Elizabeth LANE _____|
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[201] still living - details excluded
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_Ira Edward WILSON _+
_Reece Edward WILSON ___|
| |_Inez WILLIAMSON ___
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|--Inez Laverne WILSON
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|_Beulah Eveline COOPER _|
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[434] still living - details excluded
_Leonidas Amidas WILSON _+
_Leonidas Thomas (Tom) WILSON _|
| |_Sarah Ann MCSPADDIN ____
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|--James Milton WILSON
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|_Lula Deane LYLE ______________|
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_David Carroll Wilson, MAJOR _+
_David Carroll WILSON ___|
| |_Jane (Jean) Rowan SHARP _____
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|--Zacheus Captian, David WILSON
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|_Jane (Jinny) CAROTHERS _|
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[971]
The Castel San Carlos de Perote was in Estado Vera Cruz, Mexico. It is
believed that Captain Zacheus David Wilson was a twin to Pleasant Wilson.
[972]
The Mexican Santa Anna had regained power in Mexico and was trying to take Texas back,
feeling that he had been forced to give it up. In that time all able bodied Texans who had a
horse and gun were, by the order of the state, required to serve so much time each year in
ranging companies patrolling for Indians and bandits from south of the border.
[973]
Santa Anna sent his brother-in-law across into San Antonio to take it back. Will Cameron
gathered a bunch of "rangers" and proceeded to move them out with little delicacy. Santa Anna
then sent a larger and stronger group in. Sam Houston called for all rangers to report to San
Antonio. Almost seven hundred and fifty rangers showed up, but there was no one to fight. All
but about three hundred went home. The Mexicans heard about this and hurried back home, but there were some of the Texans who decided to go down and, "whip a few Mexicans." They followed what seemed like a good sized group down the Rio Grande toward
present day Brownsville to the village of Mier. There they gave battle.(Christmas day) What they thought was about three hundred Mexicans had turned out to be closer to three thousand. They fought all night and early morning when they could see how bad
they were outnumbered, they raised a white flag to parley. The Mexicans intended to surrender but the Texans beat them to the punch and surrendered to them. Zaccheus David Wilson was one of them. They were started on a long march to Perote, east of
Mexico City. Several managed to escape, but most were recaptured. Some died of thirst and some actually made it back to Texas. Santa Anna sent word to shoot all Texans now reduced to about one hundred and seventy. The General refused and he was
replaced with another who talked Santa Anna into killing only one in ten.( references that one Waddy Thompson negotiated this deal). One hundred and seventy beans were placed in a pot, sixteen of them black, the rest white. William Cameron, a British
subject, was not allowed to draw, he was to be shot, and he was. For having abused Santa Anna's brother-in-law Zacheus Wilson was given a black bean and shot. He was buried in the moat, Castle Perote, Vera Cruz, Mexico. The survivors were placed into a
dungeon. And there most of them remained until their release under a general amnesty on September 16,1844, almost two years after their ill fated expedition.When the war began with U.S. and Mexico one of the men dropped out with a party and recovered
their bodies. They were returned to La Grange where they were enshrined high atop Monument Hill.