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Rebecca Elizabeth Gleghorn

 

 

Information contributed by Jim Hollingsworth

Rebecca Elizabeth Gleghorn was born December 22, 1838 in Lincoln county, Tennessee and died December 6, 1899 in Navarro county, Texas. She married Samuel Silas Wilson on June 22, 1854 in Hempstead county, Arkansas, signed by John M. Whiteside, J.P. He was born October 14, 1834 and died November 16, 1876 in Corsicana, Navarro county, Texas. He was killed in a hardware store. They had 5 children

1. Isadora Norwood Wilson was born November 8, 1864 in Prescott, Arkansas and died February 23, 1942 in Purdon, Texas. She married Andrew Jackson Davis on December 23, 1880 in Purdon, Texas.

2. Stephen A. Wilson was born about 1862 in Arkansas. He married Lola Cox.

3. Mary E. Wilson was born 1856 in Arkansas. She married James Fox on August 17, 1876 in Navarro county, Texas.

4. Edward R. Wilson was born 1860 in Arkansas and died before 1865.

5. Clark Ceborn Wilson was born September 27, 1869 in Navarro county, Texas and died December 13, 1913 in Orange county, Texas. He married Emily Gertrude Smith on August 16, 1891 in Navarro county, Texas.