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Sources consulted for the biography of:Ellis Wilson (ca. 1818–1904)
Primary Sources
- United States Census Schedules, Dinwiddie Co., 1880 (age sixty-three) and 1900 (age eighty-two with February 1818 birth, and with implied 1869 marriage year), and Agriculture Census, Dinwiddie Co., 1870, Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- J. A. Yeckley to Brigadier General O. Brown, Mar. 18, 1867, Reports on Prominent Whites and Freedmen, March–May 1867 in Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Virginia (1865–1869), Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, Record Group 105, M1048, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Summary of the Result of the Election for Members of the House of Delegates of Virginia, Held on the 6th Day of July, 1869, 11, printed with General Orders and Circulars, Headquarters First Military District 1869 (1870).
- Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia for the Session of 1869–70 (1870), 54, 606–607, 610–611, 614–615.
- Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia for the Session of 1870–71 (1871), 23, 160, 387.
- Dinwiddie Co. Deed Books 12:384, 422–423, 477, 501, 562–563, 629–630, 13:12–13, 14:521–522, 15:158, 20-2:617–618, 23:335, 26:1, 525–529.
- Land Tax Returns, Dinwiddie Co., 1872–1904, Auditor of Public Accounts, Record Group 48, Library of Virginia.
- September death date in Henry Wilson v. Administrator of Ellis Wilson, Etc., Dinwiddie County Chancery Causes, 1914-018, Library of Virginia.
Secondary Sources
- Biography in Luther Porter Jackson, Negro Office-Holders in Virginia, 1865–1895 (1945), 43, with birth in 1824 and death ca. 1904.
- Richard Lowe, "Local Black Leaders During Reconstruction in Virginia," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 103 (1995): 181–206 (esp. 188).
Newspapers
- Petersburg Daily Express, June 23, 1869.
- Richmond Daily Dispatch, July 10, 1869 (quotation); Sept. 23, 1870; Mar. 2, 1871.
- Richmond Daily State Journal, Sept. 21, 1871.
- Richmond Whig and Advertiser, Oct. 25, 1872.
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