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Descendants of Henry Wilson

Generation No. 2

      2. Harvey² Wilson (Henry¹) was born March 15, 1824 in South Carolina, and died April 17, 1909 in Hill City, Hood County, Tx. He married Elizabeth Cisco Reynolds 1849 in South Carolina, daughter of William Reynolds and Winnie Somers. She was born 1835, and died 1924 in Acton, Hood County, TX.

Notes for Harvey Wilson:
Civil War 1862 - Confederacy

Harvey Wilson was Lieutenent in Civil War (South). He enlisted in Company H 21st South Carolina Infantry (1861). He and family moved to Texas in 1870 locating on Brazos River.

From "History of Texas", found at the West Texas Museum, Texas Technological College, Lubbock, Tx, pages 588-589, date unknown:

Harvey Wilson, one of the prominent farmers of Hood county, who for a quarter of a century has been identified with the best interests of the community, is a native of South Carolina, where he was born March 15, 1825, and is a son of Henry and Mary (Hunt) Wilson, the former a native of Virginia and the latter of South Carolina. The father served as a soldier in the Colonial army during the Revolutionary war, and died at the age of seventy-eight years , when our subject was only seven years old [This conflicts with sworn testimony - see marriage notes of Henry Wilson and Mary Hunt]. The mother was the second wife of Henry Wilson, by whom she had six children, and her death occurred in her native state in 1871.
      After the death of his father, Harvey Wilson was reared by strangers, and was able to attend school for only six months, for which privilege he had to work the other six months to pay for his board and tuition. Most of his education has been secured since his marriage, being taught by his wife. At the age of eighteen, he began learning the trade of wagon-maker, and later took up blacksmithing, at which he worked for nearly twenty years at the same time managing a farm which he owned in his native state.
      Mr. Wilson was married in 1849, the lady of his choice being Miss Elizabeth Reynolds, who was born in South Carolina, and is a daughter of Edward and Winnie Reynolds, also natives of the same state. Twelve children were born of this union but only four grew to maturity, and are living at the present time, namely: Aramenta, wife of M. E. Huggins, a farmer of Hood County; Vermeil, wife of E. J. Baker; Ella, wife of W. J. McElroy; and Fannie, wife of D. F. Ward. All make their home in Hood county.
      In ten years after his marriage, Mr Wilson was employed as clerk and bookkeeper for a firm that engaged in merchandising and in the manufacture of turpentine. In 1861, he enlisted in Company H, Twenty-first South Carolina Infantry, with which he served until captured at Fort Fisher in January, 1864, and was a prisoner on Governer's Island, New York, for about two months, when he was paroled. He was first a corporal, from which position he was promoted to that of orderly sergeant, and later to that of second lieutenant, and at, the seige of Battery Wagner on Morris Island had command of a detachment of thirty men for six months.
      In 1879, Mr. Wilson sold his interests in South Carolina and came to Texas, locating on the Brazos, which was his objective point. At the end of a year, he puchased two hundred acres of partially improved land, which he cultivated for a year and then sold out and bought one hundred and sixty acres of his present farm. He has given each of his children eighty acres of goodland, and still owns three hundred and sixty acres, all of which he rents, as he is now living in comparative retirement, necessitated by having received a sunstroke and partial paralysis. For two years he conducted a store at Acton, Hood county, since living upon his present farm. He has been the architect of his own fortune, and has never been afraid of putting his shoulder to the wheel whenever necessary. He has brought his land to a high state of cultivation greatly by the labor of his own hands, and well deserves the success that has come to him.
      Mr. Wilson is a popular and influential man, who for two years served as county commissioner, and socially is a member of Acton Lodge, No. 285, F. & A. M. In religious matters he and his wife belong to the Methodist Episcopal church, south, and are people who enjoy the confidence and respect of the community generally.
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X A Meyer - "Harvey Wilson had 52 rent houses in Granbury, Tx. - mostly colored folks."

More About Harvey Wilson:
Burial Place: Acton Cemetery, Hood Co, Tx

More About Elizabeth Cisco Reynolds:
Burial Place: Acton Cemetery, Hood Co, Tx

Children of Harvey Wilson and Elizabeth Reynolds are:

+	3	i.	Aramenta Levina Mary Jane³ Wilson, born April 30, 1850 in South Carolina; died October 1, 1903 in Acton, Hood County, TX.
	4	ii.	Martha J. S. A. Wilson, born Abt. 1852 in South Carolina; died Bet. 1852 - 1862 in South Carolina.
	5	iii.	Frances E Vermell Wilson, born Abt. 1854 in South Carolina; died in Lipan, Hood County, TX. She married (1) Ellis Jackson Baker. She married (2) ??? McKisk.

Notes for Ellis Jackson Baker:
Lived near Lipan.

6	iv.	Margaret A Ella Wilson, born Abt. 1859 in South Carolina. She married (1) W J McElroy. She married (2) John Hathcock. She married (3) ??? Duckworth.
7	v.	Ellen Theodora Wilson, born Abt. 1862; died Bet. 1878 - 1899. She married James H Hathcox October 6, 1878.
8	vi.	Fannie Anna Willson, born June 7, 1871 in Hood County, TX; died August 26, 1919 in Acton, Hood County, TX. She married David Frank Ward March 5, 1888.

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