Ulysses Grant Wilson

Brief Life History of Ulysses Grant

When Ulysses Grant Wilson was born in February 1869, in Lawrence, Arkansas, United States, his father, Jonathan J Wilson, was 50 and his mother, Mary Frances Frost, was 35. He married Eliza Catherine Williams on 14 August 1890, in Sharp, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 9 daughters. He lived in Arkansas, United States in 1870 and Scott Township, Sharp, Arkansas, United States for about 20 years. He died on 2 October 1949, in Muldrow, Sequoyah, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Blackjack Cemetery, Blackjack, Sequoyah, Oklahoma, United States.

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Family Time Line

Ulysses Grant Wilson
1869–1949
Eliza Catherine Williams
1874–1961
Marriage: 14 August 1890
Joseph F Wilson
1891–1905
Esther Lee Wilson
1893–1972
Riley Mason Wilson
1895–1978
Elmarine Wilson
1896–1898
Ora Viola Wilson
1898–1978
Sinda Elvira Wilson
1901–1975
Ulysses Grant Wilson Jr
1903–1905
Cora Jane Wilson
1905–1993
Lora A Wilson
1908–1911
Bessie Mae Wilson
1910–1978
Beulah Covella Wilson
1912–2002
Charles Alexander Wilson
1914–1971
Edith Modine Wilson
1917–1984

Sources (12)

  • Ulyesess G Wilson, "United States Census, 1930"
  • W S Wilson, "Arkansas, County Marriages, 1837-1957"
  • Ulyssus Wilson, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

1883 · The Mosaic Templar is Founded

The Mosaic Templar is an African American fraternal organization founded in Little Rock. it was founded by former slaves, John Edward Bush and Chester W. Keatts. It was part of a movement that was going on at the time, where everyone was forming fraternities and sororities. The main departments for this one where endowment, monument, analysis, uniform, rank, recapitulation, records, and a juvenile division.

1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act

This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.

Name Meaning

English: from the Middle English personal name Will + patronymic -son ‘son of Will’. Will was a very common medieval short form of William . This surname is also very common among African Americans.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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