Augusta Evans Wilson
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We are writing a book about the woman journalist Martha Louise Rayne. She interviewed Augusta Wilson at her home after her husbands's death. We have a fragment of the report and we were wondering if anyone knows about the interview and its publication
M. Forbes
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Captain R. Y. Johnson was commander of Company F, 49th Tennessee Infantry. During the Battle of Franklin, TN 30 Nov. 1864 he was severly wounded in the head and arm after picking up the colors of his Regiment, he was taken from the field and sent to Mobile, Ala. where he was nursed back to health by the lovely Southern aythoress, Miss Augusta Evans. Source: Confederate Veteran Vol. 20, page 579
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Captain R. Y. Johnson was commander of Company F, 49th Tennessee Infantry. During the Battle of Franklin, TN 30 Nov. 1864 he was severly wounded in the head and arm after picking up the colors of his Regiment, he was taken from the field and sent to Mobile, Ala. where he was nursed back to health by the lovely Southern authoress, Miss Augusta Evans. Source: Confederate Veteran Vol. 20, page 579
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Family lore has it that August Evans Wilson's murder novel AT THE MERCY OF TIBERIUS was set at my Gt. Grandfather, Norborne Berkely Powell (MD) plantation just outside Union Springs, Bullock County, Alabama. Ild Dr. Powell factually had his image etched into a handmade by slaves glass window pane of the still standing and lived in Plantation Cottage style house during a thunderstorm as he looked out to see how his cattle and crops were doing during a wild summer thunderstorm. That pane of glass was donated many years ago to the Alabama State Archives in Montgomery.
I know of no by blood kinship to the author, but since her husband was a banker in Mobile and the Powell's were founding owners of Powell Bank of Union Springs, AL, now First National Bank of Union Springs (Edwards boy having married heiress Powell daughter around the turn of the century, before or after 1900), so perhaps, mere conjecture, Augusta Evans Wilson and her Mobile husband were house guests at the Powell Plantation after the Civil War when Mr. Wilson might have been doing what today we would term "correspondent banking" with the Powell's Union Springs bank?
If anyone knows specific facts of how Augusta Evans Wilson was friends with and of my Powell ancestors I would like to know of such info by return e-mail.
George Lightfoot Singleton
Grandson of Mrs. Jimmie Powell Singleton
Hoover, Alabama
E-mail: GSingle556@aol.com
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My mother recently found a leather or hide cover novel written by Augusta Evans Wilson titled "A Speckled Bird" dated 1902. If this is of interest please contact me.-Chris
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I have a hard cover book called At the Mercy of Tiberius. Copywrited 1887. By Augusta Evens Wilson. Anyone know what its worth?
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can someone direct me to genealogical information on AEW? my father's family in Chambers County AL has Evans ancestry and i know it has said for over a century we are related to her. Chambers edges the Chattahoochee River just north of Columbus GA where she was born, and Columbians have told me they are her relatives, so a region nexus of Evanses exists, so my family hearsay seems credible. i will be grateful for any information; for instance are there Evans genealogies that may include her?
t c
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I am looking for someone who would be kind enough to share the genealogy of Augusta Evans Wilson. My great grandfather was a Methodist minister in the Mobile area during ,and immediately after, the civil war. His name was John Franklin Evans and my grandmother always said he was a cousin of Augusta Evans. I was interested to learn that she was a Methodist as well! I would appreciate any information that would help to coroborate this family legend.
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