Joseph Bragg Wilson

GEDCOM Note

!BIRTH-MARR-DEATH: DESCENDANTS OF CAPT. THOMAS FRIEND 1700-1760, p. 137, 141
Information from Judy STOKES Barnes
"Claiborne of Virginia - Descendants of Colonel William Claiborne" by John Frederick Dorman, 1995, p. 230
MARRIAGE: letter from Katherine Stokes Hart, 2/19/15 & 4/10/15

Joseph Bragg Willson was the fifteenth and youngest child of Thomas Friend
Willson (see #440b-1) and Ann "Nancy" ANDERSON Willson of Amelia Co., VA.
Joseph Bragg Willson married (1) Sarah Thomas Howlett (daughter of Thomas
Augustus Howlett and Elizabeth Royall Burfoot). They had five children,
including Judith Friend Willson who married James Pace Jackson.
Sarah died in June 1858. Joseph Bragg Willson married (2) Mary Ann Howlett
in December 1860. They had three children, none of whom had descendants.
Joseph Bragg Willson owned a plantation of over 2,000 acres in Amelia Co.,
VA. He was an Elder in the Presbyterian Church. He died 29 Feb 1904 in
Chesterfield Co., VA.

A Joseph Bragg Willson (1 Oct 1889 - 8 Apr 1968) is buried at the Presbyterian Church Cemetery (behind the library) in Amelia, VA.

Katherine Stokes Hart wrote, 2/19/15, "Grandfather Willson and his second wife, Mary [Ann Howlett], had three children but only one, Kate, lived. She married a Mr. Kemp. I am not sure of his first name but it may have been Robert. Aunt Kate lived in Richmond and when Mother went to Richmond, she stayed with Aunt Kate. I think I am named for her."


Katherine Stokes Hart wrote, 4/10/15:
"I think Joseph Bragg Willson born Oct (1?), 1889 was Mother's first cousin. He was the son of Augustus and Helen Hoy Willson who lived in Amelia County. Cousin Joe had a brother Hoy and two sisters Mary who married Robert Hardy and Helen who I think married a Mr. Stevens.
Mother was kin to the Willsons on the Hoy side, too, as Grandfather Jackson's sister, Nannie, married Crawford Hoy.
We used to visit Cousin Joe and Cousin Louise when I was a girl."