Peggy, Some of the information given in the paper you quote does not agree with what I have in my files. I am a descendant of John Makemie Wilson and Mary Erwin. First, John Makemie Wilson was not a descendant of Francis Makemie, who had only two daughters. John Makemie Wilson was the son of James Wilson and Margaret McCamey (whose first husband was an Alexander). Margaret was the daughter of John McCamey who died in 1776 in Cumberland County, PA and his wife Margaret. Which brings up the second point I question. John McCamey was not the father of George McCamey (who was Andrew Jackson's uncle by marriage). I do not understand the use of ANOTHER. According to the records I have, this John McKamey Wilson, Jr., who died in Texas, is the son of Rev. John Makemie Wilson. Do you have a record of a different John McKamey Wilson, Jr.? Carolyn Smotherman In a message dated 8/16/2002 2:17:29 PM Central Standard Time, PWilson411@aol.com writes: > Subj:[NCMECKLE-L] Another John McKamey Wilson, Jr. 1808-1881 ? > Date:8/16/2002 2:17:29 PM Central Standard Time > From:<A HREF="mailto:PWilson411@aol.com">PWilson411@aol.com</A> > To:<A HREF="mailto:NCMECKLE-L@rootsweb.com">NCMECKLE-L@rootsweb.com</A> > Sent from the Internet > > > > > WILSON, JOHN MCKAMEY, JR. (1808-1881). John McKamey (McKamie, MaKemie, > McKemie) Wilson, Jr., minister and potter, was born in Mecklenberg County, > North Carolina, in 1808, the son of John McKamey and Mary (Erwin) Wilson. > He > came from a long line of Scots-Irish Presbyterians that included Francis > MaKemie, who was credited with introducing Presbyterianism to America. > Wilson's father was a powerful voice in the Presbytery of North Carolina. > Andrew Jackson was born in the home of his great-uncle, George McKamey, and > > during the American Revolution Mrs. Jackson and her boys took refuge from > the > British in the home of Wilson's grandparents. John's father and the young > Jackson were boyhood playmates. Wilson and his brother, Alexander, > graduated > from Washington College in Lexington, Virginia, in 1827. John studied law > and > was admitted to the bar, while Alexander became a medical doctor. Both > brothers entered the seminary. In 1834 Alexander became one of the first > foreign missionaries to Africa, while John became pastor of his father's > old > church in Rocky River, North Carolina, before moving west to Texas. He > married Philadelphia Herndon Fox of Virginia in 1831. They traveled west > from > North Carolina with a stopover in Fulton, Missouri, where Wilson > established > a seminary and classical institute for young women and was a circuit rider > for two area churches. The Wilsons arrived in Texas in 1856 with their > eleven > children and nineteen slaves. Wilson became the second minister of the > Seguin > Presbyterian Church. He was headmaster of the female academy of Guadalupe > College, and his scientific interests caused him to begin producing > stoneware > pottery for food preservation. Several of his scientific papers on the > composition of clays were published during the 1870s. He trained his slaves > > to be potters as well as to read and write. Wilson, a staunch Confederate, > was moderator of the Presbyterian Synod of Texas in 1862 when that body > voted > to dissolve its ecclesiastical connection with the General Assembly of the > Presbyterian Church of the United States. After the Civil War Wilson sold > his > interest in Wilson Potteries at Capote, ten miles east of Sequin. At that > time three former Wilson slaves broke away from the new owner and started > their own pottery. One of them, Hiram Wilson, was credited with being the > first black businessman in Texas; his activities are featured at the > University of Texas Institute of Texan Cultures at San Antonio. In 1985 a > historical marker was dedicated to Rev. John McKamey Wilson, who died in > 1881, and Rev. Hiram Wilson near the site of their historic pottery in > Guadalupe County. > > BIBLIOGRAPHY: Elmer Joe Brackner, Jr., The Wilson Potteries (M.A. thesis, > University of Texas at Austin, 1981). William Stuart Red, A History of the > Presbyterian Church in Texas (Austin: Steck, 1936). > > Researching: McClellan, Starnes, Purviance, Felker, Garver, Baker, Freeze, > > Linker > > <A HREF="http://members.aol.com/pwilson411/indexe.html">Genealogy and Personal Pages</A> > > Peggy Sue Wilson > pwilson411@aol.com > >