Biographical Sketch of James H. Wilson, Texas County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas,
Pulaski, Phelps & Dent Counties, Missouri, from Earliest Times to the
Present" Published by Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1889.

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James H. Wilson, one of the early settlers in Missouri, was born on
the 1st of January, 1812, and is a son of Eli B. Wilson, a sketch of
whom is given elsewhere.  He was born in the "Buckeye State," but 
was reared in Kentucky, and in 1832 came to Missouri, where he was
married to Lucinda Coppedge, who died in Crawford County in 1858,
leaving eight children.  After her death Mr. Wilson married Mrs.
Nancy J. Yowell, nee Bradford, by whom he is the father of six child-
ren.  He is an old Jacksonian Democrat, and is now residing in Phelps
County, and is a member of the Primitive Baptist Church, both wives
being members of the same.  His fifth child, Taylor S., was born in
Crawford County (now Phelps) December 24, 1849, and received the ed-
ucation and rearing of the average farmer's boy.  He assisted his
father until twenty years of age, when he began for himself, working
by the month as a farm hand for nearly eight years.  He now owns a
good farm, with about seventy acres under cultivation.  August 20,
1876, he was married to Miss Sallie E., a daughter of Col. James H.
McBride.  She was born in Springfield, MO., September 15, 1856, and
is the mother of the following children: James E., Albert C., David N.,
Dora A., Mildred J. and Lewis H.  Both Mr. and Mrs. Wilson belong to 
the Christian Church.

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