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- Biographical Souvenir of the State of Texas
William H. Wilson
William H. Wilson is the son of William A. and Martha (Phillips) Wilson, and was born in Pope county, Georgia, in 1844. The father was also a native of Georgia, and the mother of South Carolina, and both are now deceased. William H. is the fourth in a family of six children, the others being ? Mary, wife of Reuben Hickman; Ruth, wife of E.J. Childers; Martha, wife of Allen Bailey; Nancy, wife of Samuel Bailey, and Sarah, who died young.
William H. Wilson lived on the home farm in Georgia until 1861, when he enlisted in the Confederate service, in Company D, Captain McDonald, of Murray county. For two months he was in a camp of instruction, and was then sent to Camp Lee, Richmond, Virginia, then to Norfolk and Portsmouth, witnessed a fight between the ironclad Merrimac and three or four Yankee men-of-war; was at Petersburg, Seven Pines, Culpeper Court House, the second battle of Manassas, then at Maryland Heights, Harper?s Ferry, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Petersburg and Newmarket Heights, and returned home in 1866. Soon afterward he came to Texas, and in 1870 married Dicey B. Bass; in 1878 he settled in Cooke and two years later bought his farm near Callisburg, on which he has lived ever since. The children born to W. H. Wilson are named ? Mattie, Willie, Bennie, Rutha and Roy.
Willis Bass, the father of Mrs. Dicey B. Wilson, was a native of Alabama and came to Texas before the annexation, Fort Boone at that time being the only known place of safety in the State, owing to the incursions of Indians at all points of settlement. He was married three times, and while residing in Alabama accidentally shot and killed his first wife; a year later, however, he married again, and by this union became the father of thirteen children. The third wife and his children did not agree very well, and this fact, added to his grief for the accident to his first wife, so preyed upon his mind that he became partially insane, and at times tried to hire some of his neighbors to kill him. He subsequently improved somewhat, and it was thought that he would fully recover, but a last he found a fitting opportunity and shot himself, dying instantly. He was the of father of the following children: by his first wife ? Elijah and Tillman; by his second ? Mary, Sarah, John, Martha, Jourdan, Elizabeth, Dicey (now forty-one years of age), Parnecy, George, Calloway and Nicholas; by his third wife ? Dora, Ida, Johnnie and Ella.
1850 Federal Census of Cherokee County, Texas (September 26, 1850)
Willis Bass - 39 - Male - Tennessee - Planter 2000
Elizabeth - 38 - Female - South Carolina
Elijah - 20 - Male - Alabama - Planter
Tilman M. - 18 - Male - Alabama
Nancy - 17 - Female - North Carolina
Sarah F. - 13 - Female - Alabama
John - 12 - Male - Alabama
Martha J. - 9 - Female - Alabama
Jorden - 6 - Male - Alabama
Elizabeth W. - 5 - Female - Alabama
Decia B. - 2 - Female - Alabama
George H. - 6/12 - Male - Alabama
Bathenia - 90 - Female - Virginia
1860 Federal Census of Beat 4, Cherokee County, Texas (July 11, 1860)
Willis Bass - 49 - Male - Tennessee - Farmer
Elizabeth - 48 - Female - South Carolina - House Keeping
John - 21 - Male - Alabama
Martha - 17 - Female - Alabama - Sewing
W.J. - 16 - Male - Alabama
Elizabeth - 14 - Female - Alabama
D.R. - 11 - Male - Texas
George - 8 - Male - Texas
Calloway - 6 - Male - Texas
Nicolis - 4 - Male - Texas
and two others
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