Bio: Walton Wilson, Claiborne Parish, LA
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville, 1890
Submitted for the LAGenWeb Archives by: Gwen Moran-Hernandez, Jan. 2000


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Walton Wilson, as a planter of Ward 6, Claiborne Parish, La., needs no introduction 
to the people of this section, for he has during his residence here won a name for 
himself as a tiller of the soil.  Rankin County, Miss., is the place of his birth, 
and there he first saw the light of day in 1839, being one of two children born to 
his parents, the other member of the family being Eliza A., wife of A. A. Ponder, of 
Smith County, Tex.  The father, A. M. Wilson, was a North Carolinian, born about 1815, 
a lawyer by profession, who died in Claiborne Parish, La., in the summer of 1841, at 
the untimely age of twenty-six years.  He came here the same year of his death, thinking 
to better his financial condition, but was cut down by the reaper, Death, when entering 
upon a career of great usefulness.  His wife, whose maiden name was Sarah A. Stevens, 
was born in Mississippi, a daughter of Isaac Stevens, and is now living with her daughter 
in Texas.  Walton Wilson grew to maturity and received a common-school education in 
Claiborne Parish.  When the war broke out he determined to do his share to swell the 
ranks of the Confederate Army, and enlisted in Company A, Ninth Regiment Louisiana 
Volunteers, in 1862, but being sick during the summer, he saw but little service until 
the battle of Fredericksburg, after which he participated in the following engagements: 
Second battle of Manassas, the battle of the Wilderness, and numerous skirmish fights at 
various times.  After Lee's surrender he returned to his home in Louisiana, and has since 
given his attention to farming, being now the possessor of 260 acres of fertile and 
valuable land, of which 100 acres are under the plow.  Being a natural mechanic, he 
picked up the carpenter's trade at odd times, and has now a beautiful house built by 
his own hands.  His marriage, which occurred in the fall of 1860, was to Miss Cicily 
Honeycut, a daughter of James and Sarah A. (Stevenson) Honeycut, natives of North 
Carolina and Missouri, respectively, the birth of the former occurring in 1800.  He 
was one of the first settlers of this parish, and reared a family of seven children, 
all of whom are deceased except Mrs. Wilson and a sister, Julia, a resident of Winn 
Parish.  Eight of the nine children born to Mr. and Mrs. Wilson are still living: 
Eliza (wife of I. H. Stevens), Mary L. (wife of I. A. McKee), Sarah (wife of A. H. 
Box) Albert M., Sadie S., A. L., J. Gilbert and Myraposie B.  Mr. Wilson and his 
wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he belongs to the Farmers' 
Union.  He was appointed postmaster of Aycock in the spring of 1887, and the office 
was removed from Enterprise to his residence, where it has since been, Mr. Wilson 
making a faithful and zealous official.  He is now fifty years of age.

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