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INDIAN WARS AND PIONEERS OF TEXAS.
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after moved to Navasota and opened up a general
mercantile business, leaving Mr. Howell in charge
of the business at Anderson. In 1875 Mr. Yarborough
withdrew from the firm and the business
was continued by Wilson moved
to Texas with his parents, Hugh and Adeline
P. Wilson, in 1846, and settled in Colorado
County; entered the Virginia Military Institute, at
Lexington, Va., in 1854, and graduated from that
institution in 1858; served in the Confederate army
as Lieutenant in Brown's Regiment of Texas Cavalry
during the war between the States, and returned to
Texas after the surrender; engaged in farming at
the old farm-place in Colorado County and now
owns a fine farm consisting of three hundred and
fifty acres of bottom land and one hundred acres ofupland. Mr. Wilson's father died in June, 1857,
and his mother in June, 1885. September 25,
1865, Mr. Wilson was united in marriage to Miss
Mollie E. Sanford, daughter of Maj. John A. Sanford,
of Tyler, Texas. Three children have been
born to them: Della, wife of B. F. Moore, of
Glidden, Texas; Bessie, wife of W. J. Wright, of
Colorado County, Texas, and Hugh, who lives at
home with his parents. Mr. Wilson is an enterprising
and public-spirited citizen of Colorado
County and few men in that section have so large a
number of warm friends and admirers.
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Brown, John Henry. Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas, book, 1880~; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth6725/m1/518/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.