CHARLES EVERETT WILSON.
The Wilson family were early seated in Nottoway county, Charles
Wilson, great grandfather of Charles Everett, having been among the
earliest settlers in this section of Virginia. His son John Wilson, born
in Nottoway county, was the father of Charles R. Wilson, also born in
this county, and now living here aged sixty-eight years, the father of
Charles Everett, who was born at Wellville, on March 11, 1853. The
wife of Charles R. Wilson was Annie L. Jones, who died in 1858.
Charles Everett Wilson married, at Petoskey, Michigan, on January 24,
1884, Mary Helen Rice, who was born in Lewis county, New York. She
is the daughter of B. Blair Rice and Isabella Livingston Rice, formerly of
New York, now living at Petoskey, Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson
have one son, Richard Blair, born December 20, 1885.
Mr. Wilson attended school near Wellville for five years, and lived
with his father until twenty years of age, when he went into the service
of Norfolk & Western Railroad Company, as station agent. In this
service he continued for six years, or until 1879. In 1877 he opened a
mercantile business at Nottoway, which he successfully conducted until
1887. He was elected treasurer of Nottoway county in 1883, and
re-elected in 1887, and is still serving. He is a stock-holder and director
in the Burkeville Savings Bank. In 1883 was postmaster at Nottoway,
which position he resigned to accept the county treasuryship.
Residence, Nottoway C. H.
