William Goodhue WilsonAge: 56 years1865–1921
- Name
- William Goodhue Wilson
- Given names
- William Goodhue
- Surname
- Wilson
![]() | August 25, 1865 |
![]() | The Alaska Purchase 1867 (Age 16 months)Note: The Alaska Purchase was the purchase of 586,412 square miles of new territory by the United States from the Russian Empire (a bargain at two cents an acre) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Purchase |
![]() | Yellow Fever Epidemic 1867 (Age 16 months)Note: 3,093 perished from yellow fever in New Orleans - http://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/306 |
![]() | Transcontinental Railroad completed 1869 (Age 3 years)Note: The First Transcontinental Railroad was a 1,907-mile contiguous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 across the western United States to connect the Pacific coast with the existing Eastern U.S. rail network - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Transcontinental_Railroad |
![]() | Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 1878 (Age 12 years)Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever |
![]() | Spanish-American War between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 32 years)Note: The Spanish-American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, the result of American intervention in the Cuban War of Independence - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%E2%80%93American_War |
![]() | Lucy A Parham — View this family about 1900 (Age 34 years) |
![]() #1 | Lela Mae Wilson December 2, 1901 (Age 36 years) |
![]() #2 | James Hugh Wilson October 11, 1904 (Age 39 years) |
![]() | Lucy A Parham March 23, 1911 (Age 45 years) |
![]() | Polio Epidemic 1916 (Age 50 years)Note: Over 7,000 deaths and 27,363 cases reported in America's worst polio (infantile paralysis) epidemic - http://goo.gl/ZBEQA1 |
![]() | World War I between 1917 and November 1918 (Age 51 years)Note: The United States enters 'The Great War' where more than nine million combatants were killed- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I |
![]() | Spanish Influenza Epidemic 1918 (Age 52 years)Note: Spanish Influenza killed over 500,000 people in the United States, and somewhere between 20 and 40 million in what has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in history - http://virus.stanford.edu/uda/ |
![]() | James Blain Vann — Lela Mae Wilson — View this family November 7, 1920 (Age 55 years) |
![]() | November 9, 1921 (Age 56 years) |
![]() | Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Thomas Y. Swafford Cemetery |
Family with Lucy A Parham |
himself |
William Goodhue Wilson Birth: August 25, 1865 — Pikeville, Bledsoe, Tennessee, United States Death: November 9, 1921 — Pikeville, Bledsoe, Tennessee, United States |
wife |
Lucy A Parham Birth: March 12, 1862 36 35 — Pikeville, Bledsoe, Tennessee, United States Death: March 23, 1911 — Pikeville, Bledsoe, Tennessee, United States |
Marriage: about 1900 — |
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23 months daughter |
Lela Mae Wilson Birth: December 2, 1901 36 39 — Pikeville, Bledsoe, Tennessee, United States Death: May 29, 1988 — Pikeville, Bledsoe, Tennessee, United States |
3 years son |
James Hugh Wilson Birth: October 11, 1904 39 42 — Pikeville, Bledsoe, Tennessee, United States Death: December 17, 1962 — Pikeville, Bledsoe, Tennessee, United States |