From: <Wilson950@aol.com> Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2004 9:13 AM I'm looking for a John Wilson. I found him in Fair River, Lawrence County, Mississippi for the first time in 1822 on a tax list. He married a Mary Jane Newman in 1824 in Lawrence Co. Ms. John Wilson appeared on a will of Benjamin Wilson in Lawrence co. Ms. in the 1830's I could not find him on a census in 1830, but the Pike Co. Ms. list is missing for that year and I think he and Mary Jane were living there. A son Rodolphus Wilson was born in 1838 to John and Mary Jane Wilson. In the 1840 census Mary is the head of household in Pike Co. Ms. I don't find them in the 1850 census, but in 1860 she and her son Rodolphus Wilson are living in Pike Co. Ms. Rodlphus served in the 16th Ms. Infantry during the Civil War, and by 1870 he has a wife and son, and his mother Mary Jane Wilson is living in Lincoln Co. Ms with a son of her's by her first marriage, his name is Hiram M. Norman. By 1880 she must be dead. I found no more records. I found a obituary of Hiram Norman's in 1892 which said he was buried beside his mother, in Pike Co. Ms. I went to the grave and found his marker, his wife's, but not his mother's. I found a lot of Prestridge family members living near this family in Lawrence Co. Ms. and I found where one had married a Wilson in Lawrence Co. I would love to find anyone working on this Benjamin Wilson in the County. Thanks for any help. John Wilson