Biography of George W. Wilson - Craighead Co, AR

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SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas.
Goodspeed Publishers, 1889.

page 362

George W. Wilson is a native of Craighead County. Ark., where he still
resides, and occupies a prominent position among its farmers. His father,
also George W. Wilson, was born in South Carolina, July 30, 1829, was
educated in that State, and followed farming very successfully. November
12, 1854, he married Martha Loftis, born in South Carolina, and daughter
of Morris and Priscilla (Cantrel) Loftis, who are the parents of eleven
children, seven of whom are living in this State. He was a member of the
Baptist Church, and died September 7, 1859. George W. Wilson, the
immediate subject of this sketch, received his education in Jonesboro,
Ark., and married Sarah Stroud, a native of Tennessee, and daughter of
Anderson and Sarah Stroud, natives of the same State, who came to
Arkansas in 1859. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson are the parents of three children:
Alvan D., Levi T. and Varina G. Mr. Wilson has a large, well-stocked farm
of 140 acres, with about 100 acres under cultivation. He is a member of
both the Masonic fraternity and of the Agricultural Wheel, in both of
which organizations he has occupied official chairs. He manifests a great
deal of pride in the county's development and progress, and is one of the
kind that makes a thrifty community. Both he and his wife are members of
the Baptist Church.