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Notes for HUGH WILSON:
From Etta Hart Smithey's notes: Hugh Wilson was a farmer & slave owner. He was married three times. His first wife, Elizabeth Pugh, was from Virginia and died six years after their marriage. His second wife, Bennett, had one son. After her deaath, Hugh and a negro nurse reared this son. His third wife was Mrs, Elizabeth Stringer, a widow with two sons and a daughter. She was much younger than he, and they had two sons, John Hugh and James Robert (Etta's grandfather). John Hugh married and had one daughter, Maime Hugh, (Mrs. Mamie Cleveland of Roanoke, TX). John Hugh was killed during the Civil War at the Battle of Seven Pines.
From Etta Hart Smithey's notes: Elizabeth Stringer Wilson's brother was Harper GAmbrell. He was a brother of Dr. J.B. Gambrell, well-known Baptist preacher who came to Texas. Greatgrandfather Wilson (Hugh) died soon after the Civil War started. He stood on the porch and watched James Robert leave for war. He said then that he would never see him again. Greatgrandfather (Hugh) Wilson and three of her daughters-in-law lived together during the Civil war. The three sons, two Stringer sons and James Robert, were gone to war. Drayton Stringer, the elder son, married Sallie Wilson (no relation). Andrew Jackson Stringer, the other son, married Mary Brock. He later married two other times. Grandmother Wilson lived with James Robert and his wife, Jane Olivia, until J.R., their son, was a baby, and she died.
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