Bio: David C. Wilson, Webster Par., Louisiana
Source:  Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville, 1890
Submitted by: Gwen Moran-Hernandez
Date: April 2000



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===David C. Wilson, planter, Dubberly, La.  Prominent among the 
successful and enterprising planters of Ward No. 5, is the 
subject of this sketch, a man respected and esteemed for his 
many good qualities.  He owes his nativity to Alabama, his birth 
occurring in Chambers County, in 1842, and is the eleventh of 
thirteen children born to his parents.  His father, William Wilson, 
was born on the Emerald Isle, in 1791, and served in the War of 1812.  
He came to America with his parents when an infant, and settled with
them in South Carolina.  He died in 1885, at the age of ninety-four
 years.  The mother, whose maiden name was Levenia Whitworth, was 
a native of South Carolina, born in 1799, and died in Webster Par., Louisianain 1883.  The parents moved to Webster Parish in 1851, and there the 
father engaged in planting.  David C. Wilson was reared to mature 
years in this parish, and was early initiated into the duties of farm 
life.  In 1862 he enlisted in Company D, Nineteenth Louisiana Regiment, 
and operated principally in Mississippi and Tennessee.  The following 
is a statement which was given to him, signed by Lieut. J. S. Brown, 
May 8, 1965, and approved by Maj. C. Flournoy.  "I hereby certify, on 
honor, that D. C. Wilson has never been absent from his command 
without proper authority; that he never shirked from duty, but that
 he has ever remained with his command, discharging his duty as a 
brave and gallant soldier.  He has been engaged in the following 
battles: Shiloh, Jackson, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Resaca, New 
Hope Church, battle of Poor House, Jonesboro, Nashville, Spanish Fort, 
and many skirmishes, in all of which he acted very gallantly."  His 
first wife was Miss Litha Martin, by whom he had two children: Nellie 
and Hamilton.  Mr. Wilson has two children by his second wife, who 
was formerly Miss Ophelia Van Landingham.  They are named Allie and 
Albert.  By his third wife, who was formerly Miss Josie Parham, he 
has one child, Effie Leona.  Mr. Wilson has a fine plantation of 360 
acres, and has about 125 acres cleared.  He is a member of the 
Farmers' Union, and a worthy member of the Methodist Episcopal Church 
South.