William J. Wilson left four children:  1.  Dovey A., (Mrs. Dougherty); 2 Robert; 3.  La Fayette, and 4.  James C. Wilson.

The house in which Samuel Wilson, Sr., resided, and to which the body of General Davidson was borne by David Wilson and Richard Barry, before sepulture, was a two-story frame building.  No portion of it now remains and the plow runs smoothly over its site.  Robert and William J. Wilson built on the old homestead property.  These two brothers were closely united in filial affection during their lives, and now lie, side by side, in Hopewell graveyard.

Mrs. Margaret Jack Wilson, third wife of Samuel Wilson, Sr., is described by all who knew her, as a woman of uncommon energy, of an amiable disposition, charitable to the poor, and a truly humble Christian.  She died at the age of fifty-eight years, was never sick during her life, until a few days before her death, and is buried in Baker’s graveyard.  When drawing near to the close of her earthly existence, she was asked if she had a desire to live longer; she replied, “No; she was like a ship long tossed at sea and about to land at a port of rest.”

In this same spot of ground, (Baker’s graveyard,) five miles northeast of Beattie’s Foard, on the Catawba, consecrated as the last resting-place of some of the earliest settlers of Mecklenburg county, repose the mortal remains of the Rev. John Thompson, one of the first Presbyterian missionaries in this section of the State, and who died in September, 1753.  No monumental slab or head-stone is placed at his grave.  Tradition says he built a cabin (or study-house) in the northwestern angle of the graveyard, and was buried beneath its floor, being the first subject of interment.  John Baker, who lived in the immediate vicinity, married his daughter, and dying a few years later, gave the permanent name to the burial-ground.  Here also repose the remains of Hugh Lawson, the grandfather of the Hon. Hugh Lawson White, a native of Iredell county.  The only tablet to the memory of this early settler, is a rough slate rock, about one foot high and nine inches broad, on which are rudely chiseled the initial letters of his name, thus combined, HL.  In subsequent years, after the erection of Hopewell Church, the most of the Wilson family and relatives were buried in the graveyard at that place.

CAPTAIN CHARLES POLK’S “MUSTER ROLL.”

Among the interesting Revolutionary records of Mecklenburg county, which have been preserved, is the “Muster Roll” of Captain Charles Polk’s Company of “Light Horse,” with the time of service and pay of each member thereof, as follows: 

     “Dr. The Public of North Carolina,

     “To Captain Charles Polk, for services done by him and his
     Company of Light Horse, who entered the 12th of March, 1776.