Calhoun County AlArchives Biographies.....Wilson, William A. 1832 - 
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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

    WILLIAM A. WILSON, Postmaster at Cross Plains, was born in Campbell County,
Ga., October 24, 1832, and is a son of Craven and Lucinda (Langston) Wilson.

    The senior Mr. Wilson was a native of Virginia, from which State he removed
into North Carolina, thence to Hall County, Ga. In December, l832, he migrated
to Alabama and located about four miles east of Cross Plains, he was a farmer,
and at his death, which occurred in 1875, he was the possessor of about 1,200
acres of land. He reared five sons and two daughters, to-wit: William A. (the
subject of our sketch), John J., Daniel S. (deceased), Jerry C., Benjamin C.
(who died in his youth), Nancy E. (deceased), and Mary Ann Croft (deceased). All
of the sons served in the war between the States. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson were
communicants of the Episcopal Church. The Langston family were of German descent.

    The subject of this sketch was reared on a farm, received a common school
education, and at the age of twenty-one years began life on his own account. In
1861 he enlisted in the Confederate Army as a member of Company E, First Alabama
Cavalry, and participated in the battles of Shiloh, Corinth, Perryville,
Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, and all the principal fights from Chattanooga to
Bentonville, N. C. Company E was detached from the First Alabama after the
Kentucky campaign and assigned to General Wheeler's command. Mr. Wilson was
captured at Bentonville, N. C., and imprisoned at Point Lookout until July 2,
1865, when he was released. He immediately returned home and resumed farming. He
was appointed postmaster at Cross Plains in November, l883, which position he is
now filling.

    Mr. Wilson was married in December, 1857, to Martha M. Harris, daughter of
Warren and Mary (Statum) Harris, of this county. She is noted as being the first
white female child born in this county. Mr. Wilson and wife are members of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, and he is a Mason.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART III.
HISTORICAL RESUME OF THE VARIOUS COUNTIES IN THE STATE.
MINERAL BELT.

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