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Note: Deeds found recently in Madison and Haywood counties, show James Wilson lived in the area of Brownsville from 1832 to 1838. James applied for a Tennessee Land Grant 8 February 1838 in southwestern Hardin County, Tennessee and left his father and siblings sometime before the 1840 Federal census of Haywood County. Because of the movement and uncertainty of the Tennessee and Misssissippi state line west of the Tennessee River, James Wilson appeared on the 1840 and 1845 Tishomingo County, Misssissippi Territorial census instead of the 1840 Federal census of Hardin County. Land records in Tishomingo County indicate that the other male living with James' family appearing on the census was probably Alfred Dowd, James's brother-in-law who came from Chatham County with the family. The Tennessee Mississippi state line issue in the area of Counce, Pickwick, and Red Sulphur Springs in Hardin County was resolved between 1848 and 1850 and the family appeared on the 1850 Hardin County census. After his wife, Sarah Dowd died in 1851, J.W. married Mary Ann Roberts Russell. His daughter, Mary Emeline married in 1850, William Neel married about 1856. Alexander Wilson and Richard Lewellin returned to North Carolina in 1856 to claim the portion of their grandfather, Richard Dowd's, estate willed to their mother. James Wilson died in 1858, and by 1860, only John Sanford and his half-sister, Virginia B, were living with her mother in Counce. James Wilson, Sarah, their young daughter Sarah, Mary Roberts, and her daughter, Virginia, are all believed to be buried in unmarked graves in Roberts Cemetery in Counce. A portion of the cemetery was cleared for a county road in 1931 and records of the nearby Bethel Church indicate they were all members and probably buried there near the graves of Mary Emeline and John Sanford.
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