MARSHALL COUNTY, TN- GOODSPEED BIOGRAPHIES - William E. Wilkinson
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WILLIAM E. WILKINSON, a prosperous young farmer of Marshall County, Tenn.,
is a son of Mack and Jane (Palmer) Wilkinson.  The father was born in Giles
County, Tenn., in 1816, and the mother in Virginia in 1819.  To her
marriage with Mr. Wilkinson were born six children.  Mack
Wilkinson was a soldier in the Seminole war, and for two terms filled the
office of constable.  He was a Democrat, and died in 1881.  The mother is
still alive and is sixty-severn years of age.  Our subject is of
Scotch-Irish and German descent, and was born in what is now Marshall
County March 14, 1856.  He was reared on a farm, and at the age of nineteen
years began teaching in Arkansas, but failing health caused him to return
to Tennessee.  He was elected and served two terms as constable.  In 1880
he wedded Mollie Cooper, by whom he had three children, all girls.  Mrs
Wilkinson belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church South.  Since 1883 Mr.
Wilkinson has resided on the farm where he now lives.  He gives his support
to the Democratic party, and is a prosperous farmer of the county.

Surnames: Cooper, Palmer, Wilkinson,
Source:  " The Goodspeeds History of Tennessee, 1886."