William Henry Wilson, born about 1853, married Sarah Penn.  He is my (John M. Gwin's) first cousin thrice removed, i.e., my great-grandfather William Sutton Gwin's first cousin.  Jo Goodwin, below, my fourth cousin who provided these pictures, is William and Sarah's great-granddaughter. 

William Henry Wilson was born about 1852 or 1853.  In the 1860 census of Dallas Co., AL, he was listed as 7 years of age and living with his parents, Joseph Jones Abernathy Wilson and Mary E. Wilson.  We speculate that his father, Joseph, did not survive the decade--perhaps was killed in the Civil War, and that his mother, Mary, could not support the family by herself.  Lending support to this theory is the 1870 census, in which William Henry was listed as being 18 years of age and living with the family of his father's brother, Ezekiel Monroe Wilson, in Pence's Beat, Dallas County, AL; his sister, Texana Wilson, 14, was living with the family of her father's sister, RoseAnn Carlisle Jones Wilson Gwin, in Wilsonville, Shelby Co., AL; and their mother Mary, 35, and two younger brothers, Ruben, 12, and George, 9, were three of the six "inmates" of the "Poorhouse" in Cahaba, Dallas Co., AL.

Velma Wilson Dallas, left, a daughter of William and Sarah and sister of Jo Goodwin's grandmother Ida Wilson., is pictured here about 1970 in Velma's home at Black Oak, Arkansas, (Crittenden Co., some 30 miles northwest of Memphis, Tennessee), with Velma's daughter, Faybel Dallas.

Nettie Wilson Sackett, daughter of William H. and Sarah Wilson, with her husband, Mr. Sackett.

John, this picture is of Ida Wilson's husband and 3 of their children, with Loda's son Johnny.  He was born in 1938 so assume this was shortly after he was born.  The two children in the back are William "Bill" Dunn, Marietta/Mareda Dunn (my mother) and William Wylie Dunn sitting with Loda Dunn Swagerty holding her son Johnny Swagerty.  The picture was taken at the home of another son, Lois Dunn, Searcy, White Co, Arkansas.

This is Will and Ida Wilson Dunn's son William Ocie, unknown what year, but he was in WWII when this was taken, probably 1942 or 43.

This is the other twin son of Ida and Will Dunn's, Henry James Dunn.  He was the twin of my grandfather, William Wylie Dunn.