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| Washington Lafayette WILSON
(1810-1864) |
Washington Lafayette WILSON
Another name for Washington was W. L. WILSON. Death Notes: Fayetteville, AR Noted events in his life were: • Note: Guardian to Thaddeus' kids. see land record of 1860 • Reference: Fayetteville, Arkansas Early Settlers, 1852, Washington County, AR. W. L. Wilson was selling goods in a frame house where Mulholland's grocery store is. • Biography. Sallie's father, Washington Lafayette Wilson and his wife Catherine were blessed with 7 children. He was born in Verona, New York on May 8, 1810. He married Catherine Drysdale and moved to Fayetteville, Arkansas in the early 1830's with his first land purchase recorded on June 27, 1839. Wilson L. was one of Fayetteville's earliest merchants, operating a dry good store on the north side of the Fayetteville square and in 1838 he was a representative of Washington County to the General Assembly of Arkansas. He also served in the Mexican War and helped organize the Masonic Lodge in 1835. He was also for a time connected to the Branch Bank of the State of Arkansas at Fayetteville and by 1861 he apparently owned the Bank of Dixie which may have actually been in operation from his store on the Fayetteville Square. He died in Fayetteville in 1864, his wife having already passed away. They are both buried in the Wilson plot just across from the entrance to the Confederate Cemetery in Fayetteville, Arkansas. • Cemetery: Walker-Sutton Cemetery, Fayetteville: Washington County, AR. W.L. Wilson Washington married Catherine Elizabeth DRYSDALE on 14 Oct 1832 in Floyd County, IN. (Catherine Elizabeth DRYSDALE was born about 1814 in Scotland and died betw 1850 and 1860.) Marriage Notes: Name: Catharine Drysdale |
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