Wilson Miles Cary, Jr.

Oldest son of Wilson Miles and Jane M. Cary.

Wilson-Miles Cary, Jr. (12 Dec. 1838-28 Aug. 1914), was born at “Haystack” in Baltimore County, Maryland. He attended the University of Virginia in sessions 33-34 (1856-1858). He served in the Confederate army as a captain and major in the Quartermaster Department. After the Civil War, he established a classical boys’ school in Baltimore, and then became a lawyer and served as the Clerk of the Criminal Court of Baltimore. He later became a genealogist, and had articles published in various genealogical and historical periodicals, as well as writing a novel, Sally Cary; a long hidden romance of Washington’s life. Cary Jr. never married and had no children. (Death certificate)

He is buried at Saint Thomas Episcopal Church Cemetery in Owings Mills, Maryland, with his mother and father.

References

• University of Virginia: Its History, Influence, Equipment and ..., Volume 1 edited by Paul Brandon Barringer, James Mercer Garnett, Rosewell Page 426. GoogleBooks
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  • Wilson Miles Cary jr is a descendant of Pocahontas. “Pocahontas is Wilson Miles Cary, Jr.'s 7th great grandmother.” path
  • Cary, Wilson Miles, jr. "Family of Cary of Virginia", in Herald and Genealogist, Vol. 6 (1871), p. 477. Archive.Org
• http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n89621634/
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/55261221/wilson-miles-cary