Timeline

1843

• Born

1853

• Stepfather sold, family moves to Norfolk

  pg. 200

1855

• 1855 Yellow fever/John Wilson=U.G.R.R.  

  pg. 296

  pg. 298

  pg. 302

1856

• Buying his stepfather’s freedom

  pg. 278

1858

• Hired out

  Pg. 70

1861

• Battle of Bull Run, Richmond Va.

  pg. 274

1862

• May 20, released from jail in Richmond, 19 years old

  pg. 210

• Body servant for A. P. Grice. who was an officer in Cohoon's Battalion C.S.A. encamped on "Dunn's Hill," near Petersburg.

  pg. 204

• Jan. Monroe VA against my will, but I was contented.

1863

• Feb. Waiter at the Exchange hotel & Ballard House Richmond.

  pg. 127

• “I was a slave of Geo W. Grice living temporarily — from a military standpoint — at Company shop N.C. R.R. Alamance Co N.C.”

  pg. 314

1866

• Civil Rights bill

  pg.162

1867 

• “I was in Cherbourg France, a lousy sailor in the US Navy”

  pg. 272

1868

• Delegate at the first Republican state convention in Richmond

  pg. 190

• June 9 discharged from the Navy, marries his first wife

  pg. 230

1870

• January 5, marries second wife, Imogene

  pg. 73

• May 10, First black man, Samuel Davis, elected to Portsmouth city council

  pg. 200

• October 7, first child born

  pg. 354

1871

• May 22, Election riot

  pg. 212

• November, Black police officer murdered

  pg. 274

1872

• first vote 212

  pg. 212

• Began work in the Navy Yard, until 1884

  pg. 304

• August 26, 1^st daughter Emily born

  pg. 310

• September 7, “the great revival began at Immanuel”

  pg. 324

• October 12, religious conversion

  pg. 357

1873

• Member of the City Council

  pg. 342

1874

• Becomes a Sunday School teacher

  pg. 178

1876

• the Virginia Guards. the first militia company ever organized in the city. was mustered in by Capt John Gibson, Jas. E. Manning was Captain. I was 1^st Lieut. and Geo W. Gordon, was 2^nd.

 1881

• R.G.L Paige, was assistant postmaster at Norfolk, and Capt. John Gibson, was delivery clerk, both of them were colored 348
• Daughter Mary Emily Ophelia dies age 9. 

1888

• John C. Asbury, was commonwealth atty. of Norfolk County the only colored man that have ever held it.

  pg. 304

 1889

• June 24, Mother dies

  pg. 246

1893

• June, ran for election “Legislative honors” and lost

  pg. 246

1910

• Son Jeffery Wilson Jr. moves to CA

1911

• Blanch arrives in Norfolk they are married 3 days later 

1912

• Wendell Wilson is born.

1913

• Sept 23 “Educational Congress”
• Sept 24 segregation ordinance

1924 

• Wilson begins opinion column for the Portsmouth Star. 

1929

• Wilson is struck by a car
• Wilson dies Aug. 29th 1929