Thomas Payne Wilson, Civil War Veteran

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Sharon J Wilson

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06/30/2022

Thomas Payne Wilson, Civil War Veteran

Thomas Payne Wilson, my 3rd great grandfather, settled on the Rolling Fork River, Marion County, Arkansas. When he and his four brothers joined the Union army, Confederate bushwackers lynched their father, Samuel. Nancy, Thomas’ wife, identified them and after the war, the boys avenged their father. The southern laws wanted them badly enough that one changed his name and one had to be smuggled to Indian Territory in the false bottom of a corn wagon.

Date & Place: at Marion County, Arkansas in Marion County, Arkansas United States

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I’m trying to finish my Dads book on the family while he can see it. He is 98.6.
My Wilsons are descended from the Norse Wulfings Clan: son of Wolf. Beowulf was composed at our clan home. At the end of the Viking Age, we went to Scotland and mainly to Ireland. William sailed here on the James and Mary, and the family moved through the Carolinas, Kentucky, Arkansas, and settled in Indian Territory. Somewhere along the way we picked up considerable Lenape Indian DNA. Our family book is : Those Wilsons on the Rollin Fork.

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