I am very interested in seeing what Jim's question about the use of the name Tilman/Tilmon/Tilghman turns up. In our middle Tennessee Williamson Co. Wilson family, Louisa (sometimes called Eliza) Wilson, born in 1805, first married Zaccheus Wilson on 25 April 1822 in Williamson Co., and after his death she married Tilmon/Tilman D. Hinson, shown on the 1850 Census as being a cabinetmaker born in North Carolina, on 14 November 1842 in Marshall Co., TN, but after that they lived in Williamson Co. Her children by him were James H., born ca.1843, Sintha, born ca.1844, Milton, born ca.1846, Thomas N., born ca.1849, and Tennessee, born ca.1850. I don't know whether the name Tilmon/Tilman was given to later Hinson descendants of Tilmon Hinson and Louisa/Eliza Wilson. By the 1870 Census, her name was given as Eliza, and she was shown as a widow living next to her son Robert H. by her first husband, Zaccheus. She and Zaccheus had three other children according to a court deposition she made relating to her mother, Jane McDowell Wilson, wife of Robert Wilson, Jr. My main research interest is in finding the names of these 3 other children. The 5 children of another Zaccheus Wilson, Jr., who went to TX and died in 1843 in Mexico, married to Nancy White, (William F., Parmelia A., Mary M., George Z., and Sarah E. Wilson), have been confused with the 4 children of this Zaccheus Wilson, who died in TN (either in Dyer Co. or Williamson Co.) before November 1834. I hope some of this will ring a bell for somebody, though I don't expect that it will connect to Jim's SC Tilman Wilsons. Kathryn Schultz [email protected] >I saw Bob's post about TilmanWilson, and decided to ask again for >info from people who have the name Tilman or Tillman or Tilghman in >their lines. It is thought that my GGGf Isaac Newell Wilson had a >son John Tillman Wilson, perhaps born & died in 1851. This isn't >proven (for me), however. But there are several persons in Isaac's >line who have the name Tillman. All of these were born in SC as far >as I can determine. > >Can anyone shed light on the Tillman family who may be connected to >these SC Wilsons, who it is thought came from Alabama before the >Civil War? > >Jim Swanson