The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1868-05-13
The Late Rev. Hugh Wilson.

|
ing in session on the Sd day of April,
1868, the death of the Rev. Hugh Will
son was announced, and a Committee
was appointed to prepare and report a
minute in regard to the event.
They requested the church papers to
publish the report.
The Rev. Hugh Wilson was the eldest
son of the Rev. L. F. Wilson, of the
Fourth Greek church, in North Carolina,
and was born March 10th, 1874. His
father, (of whose life sketch may be
found in Foote'S Sketches of North Car
olina,) was removed by death while the
deceased was but a child; yet, notwith-
standing his early orphanage, he was
enabled to secure an Academic and The
illogical education. He was educated at
the College of New Jersey, and at the
Theological Seminary at Princeton; at
which place, he was married on the 18th
of June, 1922, to Miss Ethalinda Hall.
About two months after this, and soon
after his licensure, he went as a mission
ary to the Choctaw Indians, among
whom he remained about three years.
He then went to the Chickasaw Nation,
and established mission on Cane Greek,
about eighteen miles from Tuscumbia,
Alabama, where he remained about seven
years, having thus spent about ten years
of his life among the Indians. After
they sold their lands, he removed to West
Tennessee, where he lived and labored
five years.
In the year 1887, he came on mis-
sionary and exploring tour to the (then)
Republic Of Texas, and removed his
family hither in the Spring of 1888
Stopping for few months at San Au-
gustine, he there organized Presbyte-
rian Church, which was among the first,
if not the very first, in the Republic
In October of that year, he came to
independence, in Washington county,
where he spent two years, and then re-
moved few miles into the country. In
the winter of 1840-'41, he organized the
church at Gay Hill, of which the Rev.
J. W. Miller is now the pastor, and min
istered to it till the fall of 1850, when
he removed to Burleson county. In
May, 1852, he organized the String
Prairie church, to which he preached
with faithfulness and success till death
ended his long life and abundant labors
on the Sth of March, 1868, when he
lacked but eight days of completing his
seventy-fourth year.
In the year 1858, he was married to
his second wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Reid,
who survives him. Several children pre-.
ceded him to the grave-two daughters
remain to mourn with the widowed wife,
the event which is their loss and his gain
Such is brief and imperfect survey
of the most salient points in the outer
life of this Father in Israel. We feel
that we cannot close this notice of the
death of our venerable co-presbyter with
this barren chronicle of facts and dates,
and yet we are conscious that any tribute
to his character that would be at all equa
to the merit of its subject needs longer
time for its preparation than is at ou
disposal, and larger space than the Gus
tomary limits of Presbyterial minute
We must all have felt, on the assembling
of this body, when that familiar name
, was omitted in calling the roll, that I
blank had been made in our little regis
ter of names that could never more b,
filled. Others may come in to occupy
, the places of those who are falling BY
the way, but the pioneer of this fronte
is gone, and the place of Father Wilson
cannot be filled.
As preacher, Mr.. Wilson was forci
BILE, instructive, and earnest. AS pas
tor. he was eminently faithful and indus
trious. AS man-a Christian man
D he was humble, devoted, lovely.
"None knew him but to love him,
t Or named him but to praise"
e His presence was always welcomed il
the courts of the church, and his coun
o sells were judicious and wise.
His last days were spent in quiet an
e cheerful waiting for his change. He had
e until within a few months, filled wit
d regularity his appointments Zone of theI
n ten miles distant) and continued to pei
J, form some ministerial work till the con
n mencement of the brief illness that re
e suited in his death.
|, His sun shone as brightly, its Light ws