CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY: JOHN H. WILSON - Smith County, TX

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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson

JNO. H. WILSON.

John H. Wilson is a native of Kemper county, Miss., born May 29, 1844.  
Removed to Texa3 with his father's family in 1846 and settled in 
Freestone county, and in the fall of the same year moved to Smith 
county. In December 1863, joined the Confederate army in the 15th 
Texas infan­try, 2nd brigade Army of Northern Louisiana.  He served 
until the surrender in 1865, giving the best service a boy could to 
the cause of the Southland.  On January 15, 1867, he was married to 
Miss Mary Applenhites, a native of the state of Louisiana.  Mr. 
Wilson is a prominent farmer and citizen of this county.  Post office, 
Arp, Texas