Pioneers of Ellis County Lunsford Oliver Wilson Contributed by Jean Caddel   Lunsford Oliver Wilson was born Feb. 22, 1839 in Newton Co. Mo. and died Jan. 22, 1929 in Waxahachie, Tex.  He was a son of James Wilson II and Mary (Polly) Oliver  and was named for his maternal grandfather,  Lunsford Oliver, who had served as a captain in the War of 1812.  The Wilson family moved from Kentucky to Missouri where they had much property located near Neoshbo, Mo.  The government put James Wilson in charge of issuing rations to the Indians when they were being colonized.  He died in 1833, leaving a young wife with seven children.   L. O. Wilson and his brothers all served the CSA.   After the end of that conflict, they came to Texas with their father's sister, Mary Newton and  her husband, Larkin.  The Newtons had acquired a large section of land which is the site of the present town of Midlothian. L. O. Wilson married Sophronia Daniels in 1856 and settled on a farm on Grove Creek, near Waxahachie.  Three children were born: Patrick Henry (April 8, 1870); Alice Rebecca (July 12, 1872) and Elizabeth Jane (Aug. 30, 1874).  Patrick Wilson married Emma Witherspoon Feb. 15, 1905  but his sisters never married. [Source: Memorial and Biographical History of Ellis County, Texas, Lewis Pub. Co., Chicago, Ill. 1892}   Copyright © 2004-2016, Ellis County TXGenWeb. All Rights Reserved. This page was last modified: Thursday, 01-Jul-2021 13:30:17 MDT