M. Griggs
Washington C. Wilson, Jackson Co, AL
Sat Oct 28 17:49:25 2000


Family history is that Washington Cooper Wilson, b. 1817, KY, d. circa 1861-4, died while serving for the Conferderates in the Civil War. He lived in Paint Rock Valley in Jackson County, Alabama, near the Tennessee border. He served in the Florida Indian War as a private, the Texas Mexican War as a first sergeant and he would have been about 44 at the onset of the civil war. It's logical that he would have offered his services at this age, I don't know if he would have been an officer or enlisted. In a diary about the Mexican War, he is named as Wash Wilson. His son from his first wife says he died in 1864 during the war, however his second wife, requested a pension for his service in the Mexican War and said he died in Dec 1961. At the time she filed for a pension it was to her advantage financially to swear he did not fight for the South in the Civil War. Can anyone help me find any military record for him? Thank you, M. Griggs. Please e-mail me at griggsm@seacove.net