Wednesday, April 4, 2012
This is Robert Tate Wilson. It's a bad copy, but the only copy I have of this photo. As I mentioned yesterday, Barbara Roberts identified the photo of Eliza Jane Ingles. Then she told me she had a copy of a photo of Eliza Jane's husband and this is what she sent me. So this is my great-great grandfather.
Both Eliza Jane and Robert Tate were born in Virginia and they were married in Rockbridge County in 1843. But they moved tp Knoxville, Tennessee, for a few years and then moved back.
Eliza Jane's parents--William and Betsy Crawford Ingles--had moved from Virginia to Knoxville, Tennessee. According to Barbara, the Ingles owned a mill there and were very wealthy. One of the censuses, I think 1850, shows Eliza & Robert living in Knoxville next door to her parents. My great-grandmother, Ida Willson, was born in Knoxville. But sometime around the Civil War, Eliza & Robert moved back to Rockbridge County to stay. They are buried in the cemetery at New Providence Presbyterian Church near Brownsburg.
Barbara also told me that Ida received as a wedding gift the house in which she lived with her husband, Joseph Fultz.
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