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J. B. WILSON, the proprietor of a furniture and undertaking establishment in Fayetteville, Lincoln County, Tenn., was born in that place February 3, 1834. He is the eldest child of a family of five children—three sons and two daughters—born to Union A. and Mary (Shanks) Wilson, and was educated in Fayetteville. At the age of sixteen he began learning the cabinet-maker’s trade in his father’s shop, and continued working for him until 1854, when his father, his brother, C. S. Wilson, and himself entered in to a co-partnership of undertaking and dealing in furniture, in which they continued until 1859. He was married to Miss M. A. Whitaker October 6, 1856, and eight children were born to this union—six daughters and two sons—of whom only four are living: Martha A., Mary M., James B. and Myrtle C. At the breaking out of hostilities between the North and South our subject enlisted in Company C, Forty-first Tennessee Regiment Confederate States Army, in December, 1862. For his second wife he took Mrs. Lucy A. (McDaniel) Fullerton May 10, 1882, who was born April 28, 1850. She was first married to Robert G. Fullerton December 1, 1868, by which marriage there were three daughters born, only two now living: Willa A. and Lucy G. J. B. Wilson is a practical business man and has an extensive trade. He has been the leading furniture dealer and undertaker in Fayetteville for the last twenty years. He has been a life-long Democrat, is an elder in the Presbyterian Church, and is also a member of the I. O. O. F.