Cullman County AlArchives Biographies.....Wilson, J. W. 1849 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    J. W. WILSON, one of the most prominent business men of Bremen, was born
here in 1849, a son of William L. and Elizabeth (Blackburn) Wilson, the former a
native of South Carolina and the latter of Alabama. The father was a son of
Allen and Nancy (Cantrell) Wilson and came with his parents to Alabama when two
years of age, or in 1825, was raised on a farm in Blount and Carroll counties
and received a liberal education. He taught school two years and has been a
local southern Methodist Episocpal minister about forty-eight years. He was
elected and served six years as probate judge of Jefferson county during the
late war He is a royal arch Mason. Mrs. Elizabeth Wilson was a daughter of Joel
and Anna Frey Blackburn, both born and reared in Tennessee, but who came to
Alabama sometime in the early part of the century and opened up a farm where Mr.
Blackburn remained till his death. J. W. Wilson was reared on a farm till
eighteen years of age. He had attended the best schools, received a literal
education, and at the age of eighteen accepted a clerkship with Wilson & Martin
at Elyton, remained three years, then went on a farm and remained four years,
and at the age of twenty-seven he and brother, J. E. Wilson, formed a
partnership and engaged in the mercantile business under the firm name of Wilson
Bros., at Birmingham and remained fifteen years, when he sold out to his brother
and moved to Bremen, where he has since been engaged in farming, merchandising
and the gin and milling business. In 1871, November 15, he married Sarah L.
Sadler, daughter of Isaac W. Sadler, a native of North Carolina, and Martha
Prude Sadler, a native of Alabama, but who were early pioneers settlers of
Jefferson county. Of their seven children, two are living: Allena and Anna E.
The mother was born in 1849 and raised in Jefferson county. Mr. Wilson is a Free
Mason, and with his wife, a member of the Methodist Episcopal church south. He
is one of the live and wide-awake business men of the county and he and family
are well respected by all who know them.



Additional Comments:
from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 801-802
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI



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