Barbour County AlArchives Biographies.....John J. Wilson October 12 1843 - after 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    JOHN J. WILSON, a thrifty and enterprising planter, was born in Barbour
county, Ala., October 12, 1843, the son of David and Nancy (Baker) Wilson, of
Scotch-Irish and English lineage respectively. Mr. Wilson's paternal ancestors
were among the early settlers of North Carolina, in which state his grandfather,
John Wilson, lived and died. David Wilson was born in the same state about the
year 1808, and is remembered as a man of excellent reputation, of deep religous
convictions, and for years a leader in the Methodist church. While a young man
he went to Marion county, Ga., where his marriage was consummated in 1834, and
shortly after changed his residence to Barbour county, Ala., settling in the
neighborhood where his son now resides. He died in January, 1863, and his widow
departed this life in 1877. Mrs. Wilson was born in Orange district, S. C.,
where her father's family had been for many years, and was the daughter of James
Baker. Seven children were born to David and Nancy Wilson, namely: Charles,
deceased; Elizabeth, resides at the old home place; Emeline; John J.; Nancy,
wife of Marion Blann; David A., and William N. John J. Wilson was educated in
the common schools and was preparing to enter college when the war broke out. In
the spring of 1862, he enlisted in company B, Thirty-ninth Alabama infantry, and
his military experience embraced the trying period from Murfreesboro, Tenn., to
the surrender at Greensboro, N. C., in 1865. He took part in the battle of
Chickamauga, where he was wounded in the hand, which necessitated an absence
from the ranks of sixty days, and subsequently fought at Dalton; took part in
the bloody campaign around Atlanta, and was with Hood's army in the battles of
Franklin and Nashville. After the surrender he retuned to Barbour county, where
he has since followed the pursuit of agriculture with success and financial
profit. He owns a plantation of 570 acres, runs five plows and conducts his
farming operations upon the latest and most approved methods. He was married
January 8, 1868, to Cynthia Johnston, daughter of James Johnston, an old settler
of Barbour county, who was killed in the late war near Atlanta. The issue of
this marriage has been nine children, six of whom are now living, namely: James
D.,  Mary I., Margaret E., Oscar C., Harriet C., and Nancy C. Mr. Wilson is a
friend and promoter of all educational movements and takes great interest in the
intellectual culture of his children. He and family are members of the Methodist
church, and as a democrat he has taken an active interest in the deliberations
of his party in Barbour county.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama" Vol I, p. 475-476

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