Brief Life History of William Robert
When William Robert Wilson was born on 30 May 1877, in Coffee, Tennessee, United States, his father, Charles Byrom Wilson, was 37 and his mother, Sarah Gillie Arnold, was 33. He married Willie Bell Burt on 31 May 1903, in Coffee, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 daughters. He lived in District 7, Grainger, Tennessee, United States in 1880 and Franklin, Tennessee, United States in 1920. He died on 18 January 1947, in Hillsboro, Coffee, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Hillsboro, Coffee, Tennessee, United States.
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- William R Wilson, "United States Census, 1930"
- William Wilson, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- William Robert Wilson, "Tennessee Death Records, 1914-1955"
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World Events (8)
1878 · Yellow Fever Epidemic
When a man that had escaped a quarantined steamboat with yellow fever went to a restaurant he infected Kate Bionda the owner. This was the start of the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee. By the end of the epidemic 5,200 of the residence would die.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
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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