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Below is a family biography included in The History of Washington County, Arkansas published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1889.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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Andrew J. Wilson, a successful farmer and stock raiser of Washington County, Ark., and native of the same, was born in Pulaski, March 25, 1851. His father, William Wilson, was born in Jackson County. Ga., in 1807, and was married in that State to Eliza B. McCulloch, also of Georgia, and of English parentage. They came to Arkansas in 1833, and made their home near Little Rock for eighteen years, coming to Washington County in 1855, where he purchased 600 acres of land, and dealt very extensively in stock. December 6, 1886, the father died at the age of seventy-nine years, leaving a wife and a large family of children to mourn his loss. His sons, John and Anthony, were soldiers in the Confederate army, and died during the war. His sons, Albert and Andrew, are intelligent and enterprising young men, and are residing on and managing the home farm. They have 1,040 acres of prairie land, nearly all in pasture, 1,420 acres of bottom timber land, and are very extensively engaged in raising cattle, horses, mules, hogs and sheep. In 1887 they shipped eight car loads of stock and sold at home 265 head of cattle. On their land is a fine artificial pond, one and a half acres in extent, stocked with German carp, which affords them plenty of fish.

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This family biography is one of 300 biographies included in The History of Washington County, Arkansas published in 1889.  For the complete description, click here: Washington County, Arkansas History, Genealogy, and Maps

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