Husband of Mary Holley Stephens Bryant.
Veteran of the Civil War having served as a private with the Company A, 24th Arkansas Infantry. He was with them only a short time as he was discharged on 7/26/1862 as he had contracted cholera and was sent home where he died shortly thereafter. His burial location is unknown other than Sevier County, Arkansas. His brother Thomas also served in Company A as did another brother, Isaac, who would also die from cholera during the war. A third brother, James Wilson, would be captured and sent to Camp Douglas, a POW camp in Chicago, where he would die from smallpox.
Father of the following children:
John Anderson Wilson 1/22/1842 – 2/3/1931
(m. Nancy Ann Holiman 10/24/1844 - 2/24/1908)
Sarah Ann Elizabeth Wilson 4/1843 – 1918
(m. David R. Welch 4/3/1838 - 10/15/1892)
(m. George Washington Terry 1833 - 1907)
William Green Wilson 8/19/1846 – 7/4/1936
(m. Matilda Sharp 9/11/1853 - 3/7/1886)
David Andrew Jackson Wilson 1847 – 1898
James Wilson 1847 – 1850
Isaac Jefferson Wilson 1851 – 1906
Jehu Jacob "John" Wilson 1854 – 1930
Husband of Mary Holley Stephens Bryant.
Veteran of the Civil War having served as a private with the Company A, 24th Arkansas Infantry. He was with them only a short time as he was discharged on 7/26/1862 as he had contracted cholera and was sent home where he died shortly thereafter. His burial location is unknown other than Sevier County, Arkansas. His brother Thomas also served in Company A as did another brother, Isaac, who would also die from cholera during the war. A third brother, James Wilson, would be captured and sent to Camp Douglas, a POW camp in Chicago, where he would die from smallpox.
Father of the following children:
John Anderson Wilson 1/22/1842 – 2/3/1931
(m. Nancy Ann Holiman 10/24/1844 - 2/24/1908)
Sarah Ann Elizabeth Wilson 4/1843 – 1918
(m. David R. Welch 4/3/1838 - 10/15/1892)
(m. George Washington Terry 1833 - 1907)
William Green Wilson 8/19/1846 – 7/4/1936
(m. Matilda Sharp 9/11/1853 - 3/7/1886)
David Andrew Jackson Wilson 1847 – 1898
James Wilson 1847 – 1850
Isaac Jefferson Wilson 1851 – 1906
Jehu Jacob "John" Wilson 1854 – 1930
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