1849
March 1, 1849
A. A. Wilson, Licentiate - Charlotte Presbytery
[Source: "Extracts of the Minutes of the Charlotte Presbytery," The Banner of Peace and Cumberland Presbyterian Advocate, April 6, 1849,
page 3]

1853
Commissioner to General Assembly
Rev. A. A. Wilson - Charlotte Presbytery
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1853, page 5]

1854
Ministerial Directory - Charlotte Presbytery (Tenn.)
A. A. Wilson, New Portland
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1854, page 87]

1860
Commissioner to General Assembly
Rev. A. A. Wilson - Charlotte Presbytery

Ministerial Directory - Charlotte Presbytery
A. A. Wilson, Big Bottom, Tenn.
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1860, pages 5 & 98]

1866
Commissioner to General Assembly
Rev. A. A. Wilson - Charlotte Presbytery
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1866, page 5]

1867
Commissioner to General Assembly
Rev. A. A. Wilson - Charlotte Presbytery
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1867, page 5]

1868
Ministerial Directory - Presbytery of Charlotte
A. A. Wilson, Stated Clerk, Charlotte, Tenn.
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1868, page 101]

1869
Ministerial Directory - Charlotte Presbytery
A. A. Wilson, Stated Clerk, Johnsonville, Tenn.
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1869, page 78]

1870
Ministerial Directory - Charlotte Presbytery
A. A. Wilson, Stated Clerk, Johnsonville, Tenn.
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1870, page 73]

1871
Ministerial Directory - Presbytery of Charlotte
A. A. Wilson, Stated Clerk, Johnsonville, Tenn.
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1871, page 74]

1872
Ministerial Directory - Charlotte Presbytery
A. A. Wilson - Waverly, Tenn.
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1872, page 125]

1873
Commissioner to General Assembly
Ministerial Directory - Charlotte Presbytery
A. A. Wilson - Johnsonville, Tenn.
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1873, pages 5 & 102]

1874
Ministerial Directory - Charlotte Presbytery
A. A. Wilson - Johnsonville, Tenn.
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1874, page 102]

1875
Ministerial Directory - Charlotte Presbytery
A. A. Wilson - Johnsonville, Tenn.
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1875, page 75]

1876
Ministerial Directory - Charlotte Presbytery
A. A. Wilson - Johnsonville, Tenn.
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1876, page 85]

1877
Commissioner to General Assembly
Ministerial Directory - Charlotte Presbytery
A. A. Wilson - Box's Station, Tenn.
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1877, pages 5 & 80]

1878
Commissioner to General Assembly
Ministerial Directory - Charlotte Presbytery
A. A. Wilson - Johnsonville, Tenn.
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1877, page 88]

1879
No Report to General Assembly from Charlotte Presbytery.

1880
No Report to General Assembly from Charlotte Presbytery.

1881
Commissioner to General Assembly
Ministerial Directory - Charlotte Presbytery
A. A. Wilson - Box's Station, Tenn.
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1881, pages 4 & 82]

1882
Ministerial Directory - Charlotte Presbytery
A. A. Wilson - Plant, Tenn.
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1882, page 112]

1883
No Report to General Assembly from Charlotte Presbytery

1884
Ministerial Directory - Charlotte Presbytery
A. A. Wilson - Plant, Tenn.
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1884, page 110]

1885
A. A. Wilson not in list in Ministerial Directory

1886
A. A. Wilson not in list in Ministerial Directory

1887
A. A. Wilson not in list in Ministerial Directory

1888
A. A. Wilson not in list in Ministerial Directory

1889
Ministerial Directory - Florida Presbytery
A. A. Wilson - Tompkinsville, Florida
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1889, page 173]

1890
Ministerial Directory - Florida Presbytery
A. A. Wilson - Tompkinsville, Florida
Pastor - Rutland Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Rutland, Florida
Pastor - Tompkinsville Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Tompkinsville, Florida
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1890, pages 120 & 150]

1891
Ministerial Directory - Florida Presbytery
A. A. Wilson - Tompkinsville, Florida
Pastor - Rutland Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Rutland, Florida
Pastor - Tompkinsville Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Tompkinsville, Florida
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1891, pages 134 & 164]

1892
No Report to General Assembly from Florida Presbytery.

1893
Ministerial Directory - Florida Presbytery
A. A. Wilson - Inverness, Fla.
Pastor - Inverness Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Inverness, Florida
Pastor - Rutland Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Rutland, Florida
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1893, pages 144 & 174]

1894
Ministerial Directory - Florida Presbytery
A. A. Wilson - Inverness, Fla.
Pastor - Inverness Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Inverness, Florida
Pastor - Rutland Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Rutland, Florida
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1894, pages 158 & 188]

1895
Commissioner to General Assembly
Ministerial Directory - Florida Presbytery
A. A. Wilson - Inverness, Fla.
Pastor - Inverness Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Inverness, Florida
Pastor - Rutland Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Rutland, Florida
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1895, pages 3, 165 & 196]

1896
Commissioner to General Assembly
Ministerial Directory - Florida Presbytery
A. A. Wilson - Inverness, Fla.
Pastor - Inverness Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Inverness, Florida
Pastor - Rutland Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Rutland, Florida
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1896, pages 151 & 185]

1897
Ordained Ministers Deceased
Name: A. A. Wilson
Occupation: c. [charge]
Presbytery: Florida
Place of Residence: Inverness, Fla.
Date: 1896
Age: 80
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1897, page 137]

WILSON.--There was a gloom cast over our home on June 18 by news of the death of Bro. Wilson. He was a nephew of President T. C. Anderson, D.D., the ante-war president of Cumberland University. No one well acquainted with Dr. Anderson could fail to see him in Wilson, who was one of the noble types of the fathers of our church. I first heard him preach in 1857. It was on the historic ground where our church was organized in 1810, at a camp-meeting Sunday at 11 o'clock. The audience was large; the expectation was high and fully met. That discourse has been to me an inspiration ever since. I was on a vacation from Lebanon. President Anderson had sent me to him, saying, "Bro. Boydstun, you will never find a truer man." Wilson as as true an Anderson. That is saying all that could be said of any one. He was the leader of his presbytery, so he was in Florida--not at all dictatorial. He was strong and efficient in the Assembly, but not officious. Seven years ago, in company with Rev. W. H. Terrill, I visited him in Inverness, Fla. After preaching we went with him to dinner. Sitting in his beautiful home, yet unfinished, overlooking one of those grand lakes for which Florida is so noted, with the picturesque natural growth of trees, vines and flowers, losing sight of all but his company, he said with emotion, "This is my happiest hour in Florida, having at one time two Cumberland Presbyterian preachers in my home." The expression gave a thrill of pleasure to all the company. I remained more than a week in his home. The brightest, sweetest and most memorable event during the visit was the conversion of a favorite nephew, a young man of about 27 years. There were no outward expressions, but the happiness of the uncle and nephew was evidently beyond language. Thank God, Bro. Wilson was not disappointed in his thought that in addition to his worthy son he would have help in God's work from this nephew who was as a son. In his battle to establish our cause in Florida he passed under many a cloud, but he was courageous to the last. In building our church house in Inverness, Fla., Bro. Wilson made one of the most heroic personal battle on record. The history of his labors ought to be written. That house will stand as a monument to him for many years. He needs no other. One thought has haunted me ever since his death; that is, that with his death a presbytery dies. I am sure that that created a trouble in this grand man's mind on his dying bed and was the last cloud that passed away. All who know him well hold a similar opinion. No presbytery in Florida! And yet when the Union City Assembly placed upon it the highest proportionate assessment of any in the church to endow the Theological School, this presbytery was the first to pay it. Florida Presbytery dead! It makes one feel like repeating what was said 3302 years ago when a tribe of Israel was pronounced extinct (Judges xxi. 2, 3), "All the armies of Israel lifted up their voice and wept sore; and said, O Lord God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to-day one tribe lacking in Israel?" Israel's deep soul pity found a way out of the difficulty. So may we, with much more honor than did they. Let the Board of Missions send a man there. I would gladly give any information on the subject in my possession, and even some help. The memory of A. A. Wilson is hard to reconcile with the death of Florida Presbytery. Such as he never, never dies.
J. G. BOYDSTUN.
Gadsden, Ala.
[Source: The Cumberland Presbyterian, July 16, 1896, page 31]

Rev. Alexander A Wilson was born August 24, 1821, in Sumner County, Tennessee. When a boy he moved with his parents to Stewart (now Houston) County, Tennessee, on White Oak Creek. His father, Samuel Wilson, was born in Ireland. Coming to this country early in life he first lived in North Carolina, removing thence to Tennessee in 1800. His mother was Miss Elizabeth Anderson, a daughter of Alexander Anderson. Rev. A. A. Wilson professed faith in Christ when about twenty years old and soon after joined Charlotte Presbytery. He was ordained September 8, 1848 [sic: 1849], at Mt. Vernon Furnace, Hickman County, Tennessee.

He entered Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., about 1849 and was graduated 1853. He was married to Miss Margarette I. Gwin December 12, 1853, in Humphreys County, Tennessee. She died October 20, 1867. He was married the second time to Miss Margarette Larkins, in the same county, January 21, 1869. His second wife died at his late residence in Florida in 1887. On December 9, 1861, he left his home in Humphreys County, Tennessee, as Captain of a company which was attached to the 50th Regiment Tennessee Volunteers at Fort Donelson, Stewart County, Tennessee. Soon he was appointed Chaplain of his regiment, and in February, 1862, was taken prisoner and sent to Camp Chase, Ohio, where he was a prisoner of war until August 3, 1862, when he with others was paroled. He went to his home where he stayed the remainder of the war, preaching all over Charlotte Presbytery. There he continued his labors as a preacher until December, 1884, when with his family he left Tennessee, arriving at his late home, then Tompkinsville, now Inverness, Citrus County, Florida, on December 25, 1884. In Florida he continued his faithful service, preaching wherever he could get the people together. When he came to Florida there were but few people in this vicinity. Their meeting place was a beautiful grove which served on all public occasions. In 1891 Inverness was selected as County Seat, a fact which gave this place encouragement on all lines of work, the churches included. Five new houses of worship were erected all largely through the earnest efforts of Brother Wilson. His greatest ambition was to complete his own church house, which he did. It is an honor to any community. Then he was called up home to rest from his labors. His was the First Cumberland Presbyterian house of worship ever erected in the State of Florida, and there is only one other to-day. After giving full instructions as to his wishes he quietly passed away June 9, 1896, leaving two sons and a daughter here. One son is a ruling elder in his church. Two nephews are also officers in the same. These with others are striving to carry on his well-begun work.
S. M. W.
[Source: The Cumberland Presbyterian, February 25, 1897, page 1104]

Obituary of first wife:
BROTHER BLAKE:--You will confer a favor upon me by announcing in your paper the death of my beloved wife, MARGARET JANE WILSON. She departed this life the 20th inst., after a painful illness of more than five weeks. Your much bereaved brother,
A. A. WILSON
October 26, 1867
[Source: The Banner of Peace, November 7, 1867, page 4]

Obituary of second wife:
Wilson.--Mrs. Maggie Wilson was born June 4, 1846, in Charlotte, Tenn., and died October 13, 1887, in Tompkinsville, Fla. She was a daughter of Proff. E. E. Larkin, of Tennessee, and her grandmother was a niece of Father Samuel McAdoo. She was the wife of the Rev. A. A. Wilson, and had been a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church about twenty-five years. She was possessed in an eminent degree of all the virtues and qualifications of head and heart which adorn the character of a woman, a Christian, a mother, and a minister's wife. She bore her last affliction for more than forty days with great fortitude and Christian resignation. She manifested a firmness and decision of character, under the trials and hardships met with in the discharge of her Christian duties, worthy of imitation, and died as she lived. She leaves her husband, two children, and a large circle of relatives and friends to mourn her loss. "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord."
A. C. STOCKARD.
[Source: Cumberland Presbyterian, December 1, 1887]