Robert William Wilson

Male1826–14 August 1847

Brief Life History of Robert William

When Robert William Wilson was born in 1826, in Georgia, United States, his father, Josiah Thomas Wilson, was 45 and his mother, Mary V Stewart, was 38. He died on 14 August 1847, in Upper Pueblo, San Miguel, New Mexico, United States, at the age of 21.

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Josiah Thomas Wilson
1781–1830
Mary V Stewart
1788–1829
Josiah Stewart Wilson
1805–1833
Daniel Wilson
1811–
Mary Susan Wilson
1806–
Amanda Matilda Wilson
1810–1815
Sarah Elizabeth Wilson
1812–1858
Collin Alexis Wilson
1814–1822
Martha Caroline Wilson
1817–1823
Mary Lucilia Wilson
1818–1853
Daniel Stewart Wilson
1820–
Sarah V. Wilson
1822–
Ann Sophronia Wilson
1822–1823
Josiah Stewart Wilson
1825–1833
Robert William Wilson
1826–1847
Mary Stewart Wilson
1829–1886

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    World Events (5)

    1830 · The Second Great Awakening

    Age 4

    Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.

    1832 · Worcester v. Georgia

    Age 6

    In 1830, U.S. President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act which required all Native Americans to relocate to areas west of the Mississippi River. That same year, Governor Gilmer of Georgia signed an act which claimed for Georgia all Cherokee territories within the boundaries of Georgia. The Cherokees protested the act and the case made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court. The case, Worcester v. Georgia, ruled in 1832 that the United States, not Georgia, had rights over the Cherokee territories and Georgia laws regarding the Cherokee Nation were voided. President Jackson didn’t enforce the ruling and the Cherokees did not cede their land and Georgia held a land lottery anyway for white settlers.

    1835 · Treaty of New Echota

    Age 9

    A minority group of Cherokees including John Ridge, Major Ridge, Elias Boudinot, and Stand Waite, signed the Treaty of New Echota which ceded all Cherokee territory east of the Mississippi in exchange for five million dollars. The majority of Cherokees did not agree and 16,000 Cherokee signatures were gathered to protest the treaty. Boudinot and both Ridges were killed several years later by angry Cherokees for signing the treaty.

    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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