The next name on Katie Wilson Meade’s list of her brother A. Max Wilson’s children is Augustus Maxwell Wilson, Jr., or ‘Max Jr.’ This next descendant has more ‘documentation’ of what he was doing, but not much else in terms of photos, letters, articles in the paper — Max Jr. […]
After yesterday’s post, I couldn’t just leave Max and his branch of the Wilson clan dangling there on the family tree, unexplored. So, I decided to dig around today. As mentioned, Max and his wife Belle Fannin Wilson had 11 children — but more accurately, they had 12, with 11 […]
Here’s a list of the Wilson children (from oldest to youngest) and my find/contact progress thus far: Maxwell Augustus Wilson (‘Max’) — eleven children, no contacts yet. Cephas Love Wilson (‘Cephas’) — two children; a son and a daughter. No contacts yet with any of Cephas’ descendants. Percy Brockenbrough Wilson […]
All together, we have about 30 inches of snow on the ground at my house. My husband has dug a path down the driveway to the street … which probably won’t be shoveled by the county until Wednesday. I’m not going anywhere for a few days. Thankfully, we have plenty […]
This is what it looks like outside. It’s down time today in Emmett Wilson research land; not much writing or research going on. I am thankful that we still have electricity, running water, wood for the stove, and a lot of books to read. And more hiking later on. Sometimes, […]
Well, the schools are shuttered already, 24 hours ahead of this massive snowstorm headed our way. The car is fueled; the firewood stacked high; the milk in the fridge. The kids gleeful. The mom not going to get much writing done over the next four days. Also, notice right at […]
One of the challenges in doing research on an obscure person who lived 100 years ago, as did Emmett Wilson, is that the majority of their correspondence and records might not exist. Time can be tough on historic documents. For instance, colleagues at Stetson University Archives have told me that […]
It turns out that I’m not the only one who has sought out information on Emmett Wilson. The letter was sent to Emmett’s sister, Katie. The writer of this letter, Joseph Gregoire de Roulhac Hamilton, was an impressive fellow. He was a professor and historian, and his big project was […]
The high today in D.C. will be about 19 degrees. It will be a good day to do most of my work from indoors; writing time, definitely, because I haven’t gotten any writing done since Thursday. I had hoped to get down to the Archives today; but this week is […]
Folks, for almost three years, I’ve understood Emmett’s full name was Augustus Emmett Wilson. But after reading through the information gathered on my most recent research trip, I’m not so sure. Let me bring you up to speed: Emmett was born in British Honduras in 1882, where his parents were […]
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