MARSHALL COUNTY, TN- GOODSPEED BIOGRAPHIES - Hon. Ewing A. Wilson
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HON. EWING A. WILSON was prominent citizen and native of Marshall County,
Tenn.  He was born in 1818 and always resided in the county, and was
prominently connected with its growth and prosperity.  His early education
was somewhat limited, but he acquired a good education
through self-application and contact with business life.  He held the
positon of captain, major and brigadier-general of militia, and during the
late was major of the Fourth Tennessee Cavalry, but failing health caused
him to give up his army career.  He represented his county three terms in
the lower house of the State Legislature and was senator two terms.  He
was  very public-spirited and assisted in every enterprise for the good of
the county.  He was president of the Marshall County Fair Association, and
in the days of the Grange movement he was on the side of honest toil.  As a
financier he has been almost without a peer, and by good  management became
the owner of about 2,000 acres of land, which he distributed liberally
among his sisters children.  For forty years he was a member of the
Cumberland Presbyterian Church.  He died in 1883, beloved and respected by
all.  As a christian he was faithful, kind-hearted and true, wise as a
legislator, and as a citizen had few equals.  His parents were Aaron J. and
Hannah (Martin) Wilson.  The father was born in North Carolina and when
young came to Rutherford County, where he married and became the father of
seven children.  The mother died in 1827 and he in 1831.  They were members
of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.

Surnames: Martin, Wilson
Source:  " The Goodspeeds History of Tennessee, 1886."