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C. S. WILSON. In 1858 C. S. Wilson established a sale and feed stable in Fayetteville, Tenn., and soon after, on a very humble scale, engaged in the livery stable business. He steadily prospered in his undertakings, and in March, 1885, owned twenty-six vehicles and twenty horses. On the 4th of that month the building caught fire, and the building, thirteen buggies and fifteen horses were consumed. Mr. Wilson immediately began erecting a much larger building, 82x135 feet, with a capacity of feeding sixty-eight horses. He is doing an extensive business, meeting with the success his efforts deserve. He was born in 1835 in Fayetteville, and is a son of Union A. and Mary (Shanks) Wilson. When about fourteen years of age he began learning the cabinet-maker’s trade, continuing eight years. In 1869 he became proprietor of the Shanks House, and managed that hotel for four years. In 1878 he purchased 200 acres of land, which he has managed in connection with his stable. In November, 1861, he and M. E. Lauderdale were married. She was born in 1840, and is the mother of four children: Charles, Beulah, Augusta and Fannie. Mr. Wilson has been a business man of Fayetteville for the past twenty-five years, and is in every respect an honest and worthy citizen. He is a Democrat, and belongs to the K. of P. His father was born in Tennessee in 1818, and was a cabinet-maker by trade. In 1832 he married, and after his first wife’s death he wedded Rebecca Price, who yet survives him. He was the father of thirteen children, and died in 1875.