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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Mary L. Wilks: Birth: ABT. 1861 in Tennessee. Death: BEF. 1895 in Tennessee

  2. Wilson Fayette Wilks: Birth: 10 AUG 1862 in Pulaski, Giles County, Tennessee. Death: 20 FEB 1948 in Wichita Falls, Wichita County, Texas

  3. John W. Wilks: Birth: ABT. 1863 in Tennessee.

  4. Martha E. Wilks: Birth: SEP 1866 in Tennessee.

  5. William Burrell Wilks: Birth: 16 DEC 1869 in Giles County, Tennessee. Death: 15 FEB 1936 in Hopkins County, Texas

  6. Zoda Wilks: Birth: SEP 1875 in Tennessee.

  7. Oscar Wilks: Birth: 20 MAR 1876 in Pulaski, Giles Co., Tennessee. Death: 24 MAR 1957 in Quemado,Maverick County,Texas


Sources
1. Title:   Application for Confederate Widow's Pension
Page:   #34620 in Texas State Archives
2. Title:   Marriage Book 1879-86, Limestone County, Alabama
Page:   page 413

Notes
a. Note:   She was probably named after her aunt, Jane Vick, sister to her father, Wesley J. Vick and mentioned in her grandfather, Jonas Vick's will. After William Wilks died, Louisa Jane married Willam C. Brackeen. Copy of widow's pension for Louisa Jane Vick Wilks Brackeen in possession of Doris Jean Wilks Moore. This was approved in 1917 for service of William C. Brackeen. 1860 Census for Giles County, Tennessee shows: William A. Wilks/Wilkes, age 29 Jane, age 22 Babe, age 4/12 William A. is listed as son of William Burrell Wilkes on 1850 Lawrence County, Tennessee census. Alternate birth date for Louisa Jane is 1841calculated from pension files. 1880 Limestone County, Alabama census, Beat 6: Wilkes, L.J., age 36, b. Tn SC SC Mary L., age 19, Tn. John W., age 17, Tn. Willis L., age 14, Tn. Martha E., age 13, Tn. William B., age 11, Tn. Isona, age 8, Tn. (Zoda) Osco, age 5, Tn. (Oscar) Blankenship, T., age 20, other, b. Al. Neigbors listed on next page of census include J.E. and L.F. Coffman with children: William A. (ours), Thomas H., George W., James L. and Robert. Will's brothers, George, James and Robert married Bartlett daughters of George and Amanda Parrish Bartlett. New information from Joe Brackeen's descendants states she had a large cancer on her nose that "ate her nose off". 1900 census for Hopkins County gives name as Eliza J. in error.


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