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J.M.C. Wilson

James McCullough Wilson

Full Name: James McCullough Wilson
Date of birth: March 22, 1833
Date of death: December 14, 1894

Terms of Service

Chamber District Dates of Service Legislatures Party City/County Note Counties in District
H 38 Jan 13, 1891 - Jan 10, 1893 22nd   Democrat Whitney / Hill   Hill
H 38 Jan 8, 1889 - Jan 13, 1891 21st (1) (2)   Democrat Whitney / Hill   Hill

Terms of service footnotes


(1) Democrat. Biennial Report of the Secretary of State of the State of Texas: List of Senators and Representatives. ↩
(2) Roster of Representatives of the 21st Legislature, "Twenty-First Legislature: Members of the House, Address, Occupation and Politics," Galveston Daily News, 1/5/1889, p. 2, crediting Abilene Library Consortium. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries). ↩

Terms of Service

Legislatures:
22nd  
Party:
Democrat
Home City/County:
Whitney / Hill
Counties in district:
Hill

Legislatures:
21st (1) (2)  
Party:
Democrat
Home City/County:
Whitney / Hill
Counties in district:
Hill

Terms of service notes


(1) Democrat. Biennial Report of the Secretary of State of the State of Texas: List of Senators and Representatives. ↩
(2) Roster of Representatives of the 21st Legislature, "Twenty-First Legislature: Members of the House, Address, Occupation and Politics," Galveston Daily News, 1/5/1889, p. 2, crediting Abilene Library Consortium. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries). ↩

Biographical Information

  • Confederate States Army, Musician, Company G, 6th Regiment, Texas Cavalry, enlisted 9/1/1861 at Dallas, Texas, elected 1st Lieutenant 5/26/1862, and promoted to Captain 8/14/1863. James McCullough Wilson, death date 12/14/1894 in Hill County, widow Mrs. Edwin Idella Wilson Smith, marriage date 7/17/1879 in Hill County. Pension File No. 50580, Alabama, Texas and Virginia, U.S., Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958. Includes General Order No. 13, Headquarters Ross Brigade, re. J.M.C. Wilson promotion to Captain. Ancestry.com.
  • Confederate States Army, Private and Lieutenant, Company G, 6th Regiment of Ross' Cavalry Brigade. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Representative Men of Texas, 22nd Legislature, 1892.

  • J.M.C. Wilson, birth date 3/22/1833, death date 12/14/1894, burial in Whitney Memorial Park, Whitney, Hill County. Find a Grave.
  • J.M.C. Wilson, birth date 3/22/1833, death date 12/14/1894. Originally interred at Captain Wilson's Cemetery six miles southwest of Whitney. Reinterred at Whitney Cemetery in 1950. Hill County, Texas, 1998.
  • James M.C. Wilson, Democrat, farmer, age 58 in 1891, born in Kentucky. Legislative Reference Library Card File.

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