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The third page of Katie Wilson Meade’s narrative of her family’s experiences in Toledo Settlement, British Honduras continues. In yesterday’s post, the Wilson boys, Frank Jr. and Percy, went on an illicit Sabbath fishing trip: Father quietly turned to Percy and got the truth! Frank got a good whipping for […]
We continue with the second page of Katie’s narrative of her family’s years in British Honduras. There’s a lot of good information on this page, specifically related to the Wilsons settlement in Punta Gorda. This place was situated on a creek named after some Englishman — Joe Taylor! There was […]
Although Emmett mentioned in an interview that he was too young to have any real memories about what his life was like when he lived in British Honduras (he was two years old when his family emigrated back to the United States), his sister, Katie Wilson Meade, wrote a narrative […]
This week, I’ve been kicking around the idea that Emmett may or may not have been an American citizen. In our last post, we learned this was one of his hot buttons. And, we learned that his father, Dr. Francis Childria Wilson, decided to leave the United States to start […]
I have interesting information — some in the form of primary sources! — about the Wilson family’s tenure in British Honduras. I’d like to start with this article, an interview with Emmett during his first term as a U.S. Congressman, because it is presented as his words. Here’s what he […]
A reporter once wrote that if you really wanted to piss off Emmett Wilson, ask him about his nativity. That is, if he was a REAL American citizen given he was born in British Honduras during his parent’s ‘temporary sojourn’ there. Emmett’s obituary in the May 29, 1918 issue of […]
I have to forget the sanitized, clinical image in my mind about Emmett spending his last days in a hospital bed. You should, too. His last days weren’t tragically romantic. It wasn’t pretty, despite the fact Emmett was tended to in Pensacola Hospital, by the Sisters of Charity, nun-nurses hovering […]
Thanks very much to Amy, one of the Emmett Wilson Book readers for finding the burial site of Emmett’s nephew, Cephas Wilson and his wife, Louise, pictured below: Now that I have the burial location, perhaps I can locate the Wilson descendants from this point! Thank you so much, […]
You want to hear something funny? Or more honestly, ironic? As I sat with my newfound information about Emmett Wilson, I was angry. Pissed, actually. First, this guy. Emmett Wilson, who (from what I had read so far) was from a privileged family; a family who held respectable jobs in […]
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