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WILSON, SHANKS, WHITAKER, McDANIEL, FULLERTON



J. B. WILSON, the proprietor of a furniture and undertaking establishment

in Fayetteville, Lincoln County, Tenn., was born in that place February 3,

1834.  He is the eldest child of a family of five children - three sons and

two daughters - born to Union A. and Mary (SHANKS) WILSON, and was educated

in Fayetteville.  At the age of sixteen he began learning the

cabinet-maker's trade in his father's shop, and continued working for him

until 1854, when his father, his brother, C. S. WILSON*, and himself

entered into a co-partnership of undertaking and dealing in furniture, in

which they continued until 1859.  He was married to Miss M. A. WHITAKER

October 6 1856, and eight children were born to this union - six daughters

and two sons - of whom only four are living: Martha A., Mary M., James B.

and Myrtle C.  At the breaking out of hostilities between the North and

South our subject enlisted in Company C, Forty-first Tennessee Regiment

Confederate States Army, in December 1862.  For his second wife he took

Mrs. Lucy A. (McDANIEL) FULLERTON May 10, 1882, who was born April 28,

1850.  She was first married to Robert G. FULLERTON December 1, 1868, by

which marriage there were three daughters born, only two now living:  Willa

A. and Lucy G.  J. B. WILSON is a practical business man and has an

extensive trade.  He has been the leading furniture dealer and undertaker

in Fayetteville for the last twenty years.  He has been a life-long

Democrat, is an elder in the Presbyterian Church, and is also a member of

the I.O.O.F.



*see separate biography





Additional Comments:
From Goodspeed's "History of Tennessee"





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