GEORGE R. WILSON
George Wilson married Mary Drew, and their son George R. was born
at Smithfield, Isle of Wight county, Virginia, August 26, 1817. He attended
school in his native town, and also a private school in Amelia
county, Virginia, took the collegiate course at William and Mary
College, and attended the University of Virginia. In 1837 he returned
to his home, his father then engaged in business in Norfolk, and clerked
for his father one year. After that he went to Cincinnati, Ohio, where
he was engaged in the pork business, a business he followed in various
other places until the beginning of the war. He then returned to Virginia,
and served through the war in the commissary department at
Richmond. After the war he carried on a family grocery store in Norfolk
until 1872, then was in the ice business, and other mercantile pursuits
until 1884, since which time he has filled the office of justice of the
peace, serving now his second term. From 1877 for four years he was
cashier of the custom house, Norfolk.
Mr. Wilson married in Norfolk, June 7, 1848, Rev. George D. Cummings,
of the Episcopal Church, joining him in wedlock with Claudia
Sharp, born in Norfolk in 1827. She was the daughter of William W.
Sharp, now deceased, and Mary A. L. (Schofield) Sharp. Mr. and Mrs.
Wilson have lost two sons: William Sharp, lost at sea, in transitu to
San Francisco, 1872, and Byrd, an infant, and have two daughters.
Mary Willoughby and Evelyn.
