{"id":3361,"date":"2022-01-10T17:50:08","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T23:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/?p=3361"},"modified":"2022-01-10T17:51:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T23:51:07","slug":"t-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/t-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilson, Capt. R. C."},"content":{"rendered":"

Capt. R. C. Wilson<\/strong>, a prominent merchant and citizen of Henning, Tenn., is the
\nson of James and Nancy (Lankford) Wilson. The father was born in Sumner
\nCounty, Tenn., in 1801, and his mother in Middle Tennessee, in 1802, and they
\nwere married about 1821. Eight children — four sons and four daughters —
\nwere born to them; two sons and three daughters are living. The mother was a
\nmember of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church; the father was not connected
\nwith any church; in politics he was a Whig, and died in the spring of 1858,
\nthe mother surviving until 1867. Capt. Wilson is of Scotch-Irish descent, and
\nwas born in Stewart County, Tenn., May 6, 1836, and was raised on a farm, with
\nlimited opportunities for acquiring an education. He remained with his
\nparents until twenty-one years of age, then commenced clerking in a store at
\nLineport, Tenn., with A. C. Richards & Co. At the beginning of the war he
\nvolunteered in the Fourteenth Regiment, Tennessee Volunteers (Confederate
\nArmy) as a private, and at the reorganization of the regiment was made first
\nlieutenant, and soon after promoted to captain, which rank he held until the
\nclose of the war. He was in all of the engagements with his regiment up to
\nthe battle of Gettysburg, when he was captured and held as a prisoner at
\nJohnson’s Island until the close of the war. After the war Capt. Wilson
\ncommenced clerking at Linton, Ky., and was married there September 24, 1867,
\nto Miss Alice Wilkinson, who was born in Christian County, Ky., December 21,
\n1844. No children were born to this marriage, and Mrs. Wilson died August 20,
\n1870. October 22, 1872, our subject married Miss Emma Bowers, who was born in
\nHaywood County, March 21, 1849. Of three children born to this marriage two
\ndied in infancy, and the other, James Blucher, born August 10, 1875, is still
\nliving. Mrs. Wilson was a member of the Missionary Baptist Church, and died
\nSeptember 1, 1877, and June 1, 1879, Capt. Wilson was united in marriage to
\nMrs. Susie Cox (Bowers), who was born in Haywood County, June 17, 1854. One
\nson and a daughter have been born to this union: Annie Belle, born April 30,
\n1880, and Joel Wellington, born May 31, 1884. Capt. Wilson has been engaged
\nin the general merchandise business at Henning, Tenn., of the firm Wilson &
\nBowers, since 1874, meeting with marked success, although his business houses
\nwere destroyed by the disastrous fire that occurred in Henning, May 7, 1886.
\nCapt. Wilson and wife are leading members in the Christian Church. In
\npolitics he has abandoned all party ties and stands boldly for prohibition; he
\nis a Mason, and is financial secretary of the Henning Lodge of K. of H., and
\nis a most pleasant, agreeable gentleman and an astute business manager.<\/p>\n

Goodspeed’s Biographies of Lauderdale Co., TN <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Capt. R. C. Wilson, a prominent merchant and citizen of Henning, Tenn., is the son of James and Nancy (Lankford) Wilson. The father was born in Sumner County, Tenn., in 1801, and his mother in Middle Tennessee, in 1802, and …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[152],"class_list":["post-3361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies","tag-wilson"],"modified_by":"Jim Daniel","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3361"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3371,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3361\/revisions\/3371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}