WILKINSON, W. T.

WILKINSON, BELL

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 8/23/2019 at 20:29:28

MONTROSE TOWNSHIP

WILKINSON, W. T., attorney, Montrose ; born in Winchester, Va., in 1843 ; removed to Western Virginia in 1848, where he resided till the breaking out of the rebellion. Being a Union man, he was compelled to leave the State; went to Indiana, but returned to Virginia in July, 1861 ; soon after his return he was attacked by guerrillas and severely wounded. He joined the 1st Va. V. C, and remained in the service of the Union until the close of the war. He married in 1865 Martha J. Bell, of Baltimore, Md. He came to Montrose in 1875, where he is now engaged in the practice of law ; has one child— Emma B.; has lost three children.

Source: BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY
HISTORY OF LEE COUNTY IOWA
CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY, 1879

Transcription typed/proofed as article was originally published in 1879