Nia Peeples Kathy Peeples Kemp I saw your posting on the Dallas County Alabama Rootsweb mailing list concerning information about Ezekiel B. Wilson. I too would like additional information about him. He was one of my great, great, great, grandfathers. I believe you have a couple of mistakes in your message. First, I do not think he died in Clarke County Mississippi but rather in Clarke County Alabama. The final settlement of his estate dated July 7, 1870 is recorded in the Probate Minutes, Book "N", page 92 at the Courthouse at Grove Hill, Alabama. I do not have a copy of this settlement but did take some notes. According to what I found E.B. Wilson died at least 60 days prior to October 16, 1863. The heir named in the settlement in July 1870 were: Washington Wilson, James M. Wilson, Ezekiel Wilson, and Mary E. Rasco. There is also indications of a settlement in the estate of N. Burdine Wilson, (Nathaniel Burdine Wilson) eldest son of Ezekiel B. Wilson, recorded in Book "L", page 286 dated February 15, 1866. At that time the record show that James Wilson was living in the state of Iowa. N. B. Wilson also died in Clarke County Alabama per the probate records of that County. The other error in your posting was that Mary Ann Elizabeth Rasco was a grand daughter of Ezekiel Burdine Wilson. She in fact was a daughter of his and my great, great, grandmother. Mary Ann Elizabeth Wilson was born December 12, 1834 and died April 27, 1874. Her first husband (my great, great, grandfather) was William Ephraim Rasco who she married in Dallas County Alabama on October 10, 1852. William Ephraim Rasco died November 2, 1866 and on April 5, 1869 Mary Ann married Joseph S. Drapers. They moved to Kemper County Mississippi where Drapers ran away leaving her and her six Rasco children. Mary Ann may have briefly returned to Alabama but was listed in the 1870 census of Neshoba County Mississippi, page 375, family number 1286 as Mary Ann Rasco with children: William T. Rasco, Wilson E. Rasco, James M. Rasco, Martha T. Rasco, and a negro servant named Jackson Rasco. Living on the near by farm of William J. Gentry, was another son, my Great grandfather, John H. Rasco. On the farm of James Wilson was another son, Ezekiel B. Rasco. This census was taken on June 24, 1870. On August 31, 1870, Mary Ann Elizabeth Rasco married her first husband nephew, James Lafayette Rasco and they moved to Scott County Mississippi where they had two children: Richmond Austin Rasco born July 5, 1871 and James Rasco born April 24. 1874. Both mother and infant died three days later. Mary Ann Elizabeth Rasco is buried in the Contrell Methodist Church Cemetery just south of Lena, Mississippi in Scott County. Ezekiel Burdine Rasco (1800-1863) was married to Sarah H. Rasco a daughter of Jesse Rasco and Elizabeth (possibly Harrison). I have not been able to locate a record of their marriage but I am sure it was in Dallas County Alabama and is one of the unrecorded marriages of that county. That Ezekiel B. Wilson was married to Sarah H. Rasco is proven in the will and estate settlement of her father, Jesse Rasco who died in Dallas County in 1840. Ezekiel and Sarah with their children were listed in the 1850 census of Dallas County Alabama. They had moved away by 1860, apparently to Clarke County Alabama. I believe Ezekiel and his son Nathaniel or Nathan, ran a hotel there. Apparently Sarah, Ezekiel's wife died before he did possibly in Dallas County. Nathan Burdine Wilson married Mary Jane (Fisher) Rasco the widow of John Alton Rasco a brother of William Ephraim Rasco. John Alton Rasco died in Dallas County Alabama on July 4, 1865 and sometimes between then and whenever Nathan B. Wilson died, she married him. She moved back from Clarke County Alabama to Dallas County and was living with some of the Wilson. She then married a man named T. D. Booth and they moved to White County Arkansas. It is true that two of Mary Ann Elizabeth Rasco's sons lived and died in Clarke County Mississippi at Stonewall, Mississippi. There were also other relatives there as well as Scott, Leake, and Nashoba Counties. I believe that the son Ezekiel Burdine Wilson jr. was also in Mississippi, perhaps Kemper County. I have not tried to trace these Wilson children or descendants. As for who the parents of Ezekiel Burdine Wilson was or exactly where in South Carolina he was born, I do not know. I would like to know however so if you find out please let me know. There was a military officer in the Continental Army from South Carolina named Ezekiel B. Wilson. Our Ezekiel Burdine Wilson may have been his son or a nephew. That is about all I know at this time. How are you related or connected to Ezekiel Burdine Wilson? James R. Rasco