A. L. Wilson, of Mayfield, Ky., was born on June 14, 1883; obeyed the gospel about the age of sixteen; began preaching when he was twenty-two; was married to Miss Victoria Culp, of Bells, Tenn., on June 8, 1911; and died on January 14, 1925. Brother Wilson leaves on this side a mother, three brothers, a wife and four children, many relatives, and a host of friends, to live and pray to meet him in that place where death will never come. His entire life was spent in the county where he was born, except the time he was in school at Henderson, Tenn., and while he was away in meetings. This tells more eloquently than I can the manner of man he was. In this county he taught school for several years, and at the time of his death he was county superintendent of public schools. He spent the last twenty years of his life in preaching the gospel and in trying to build up the church. He was meek and lowly in spirit and timid in manner, adhering to the Bible with a tenacity seldom equaled. He was earnest, positive, kind, and persuasive in speech. I have known and loved him from childhood. I have never known a man freer from egotism and self-conceit. His knowledge of, and preference for, the Scriptures was wonderfully great and sublimely beautiful. In gentleness and meekness he was a fine example of New Testament Christianity. Brother Wilson loved the Bible, believed it, and reverenced it as the word of God. He carried out the charge that Paul delivered to Timothy, “Preach the word.” He never preached himself, nor his family, nor his friends, but he preached Christ Jesus the Lord. He loved the church and honored it as a divine institution, perfect for all the purposes for which it was established. Eternity alone will reveal the good accomplished by the efforts of such a godly man. His tongue is silenced by death, but “he being dead yet speaketh.” I. A. Douthitt. - Gospel Advocate, May 21, 1925, page 503.

Aubrey Lorane Wilson was the eldest of 6 sons born to George P. Wilson and his wife, Eva Lee Linn. His brothers were Linn Boyd Wilson, Cletis Edwin Wilson, Matthew A. Wilson, George Matthew Wilson and Charles B. Wilson. His marriage to Queen Victoria Culp produced 4 children, namely, Elizabeth Lee Wilson, George Paul Wilson, Jack Culp Wilson, and Aubrey Linn Wilson. Aubrey Sr. was the minister officiating at his brother Linn's wedding and at his sister-in-law, Bertha Culp's wedding. His family moved to El Paso, Texas hoping that the weather would ease his tuberculosis, but he died there. His widow and children returned to Mayfield, KY. --Contributor: kalicokity - [email protected]