Wilson, Mrs. Martha Eleanor Loftin, missionary worker, born in Clarke County, Alabama, 18th January, 1834. She was educated in the Dayton Masonic Institute, in that State. She became the wife, 14th November, 1850, of John Stainback Wilson, M. D. During the Civil War, she had a varied experience in the hospitals of Richmond, Virginia, with her husband, who was a surgeon. At that time, she wrote a little book, "Hospital Scenes and Incidents of the War", which was in the hands of the publishers, with the provision that the proceeds should go to the sick and wounded. The manuscript was burned in the fall of Columbia, South Carolina.

A part of the original manuscript was deposited in the corner-stone of the Confederate Home, in Atlanta, Georgia.

She is the mother of five sons and one daughter. She has been a member of the Baptist denomination from early childhood, having been baptized in 1845. She has always been connected with the benevolent institutions of the vicinity in which she lived. She accepted as her life-work, the duties of corresponding secretary of the central committee of the Woman's Baptist Missionary Union of Georgia. The central committee was organized by the home and foreign boards of the Southern Baptist Convention, 19th November, 1878, in Atlanta, with Mrs. Stainback Wilson as president.

Besides filling the position of corresponding secretary, she is the Georgia editor of the "Baptist Basket", a missionary journal published in Louisville, Kentucky. She was for some time, president of the Southside Woman's Christian Temperance Union and of the Woman's Christian Association of Atlanta, both of which she aided in organizing. At the same time, she taught an infant class of sixty to seventy five in her church Sabbath Schoo. Her husband died August 1, 1892.
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The Atlanta Journal, Wednesday evening, June 11, 1919 , p. 11
Mrs. Martha L. Wilson dies at home of son;
Funeral on Thursday.
Mrs. Martha Loftin Wilson, widow of the late Dr. Stainback Wilson and mother of W. S. Wilson, a prominent Atlantian, died Wednesday morning at 8 o'clock at Mr. Wilson's residence 558 Spring Street.

Mrs. Wilson before her marriage was Miss Martha Eleanor Loftin. She was born in Clarke County, Ala on

January 18, 1834, was educated in the Dayton Masonic Institute of Alabama, was married to the late Dr. John Stainback Wilson in 1850.

During the civil war she had a varied experience in the Confederate hospitals in Richmond, where her husband was a surgeon, as well as in Camps Winder and Jackson. Just before the fall of Atlanta, Dr. Wilson was ordered here. In the fighting at Jonesboro, after Atlanta had been captured by General Sherman, Dr. and Mrs. Wilson were under fire attending the wounded, a large number of whom were placed under their care and sent to Macon. Dr. Wilson died in 1892.

From early childhood Mrs. Wilson was a member of the Baptist denomination and took a prominent part in various Baptist activities, being the first corresponding secretary of Women's Missionary Union of Georgia and president of the Central committee of Georgia Baptist Women, appointed by the Southern Baptist Convention in 1878. Her membership was in the Second Baptist Church where she was active in the work of the church and Sunday School.

Mrs. Wilson is survived by one daughter, Mrs. W. J. Hudson of Mobile; three sons, Mr. W. S. Wilson of Atlanta, Mr. J. C. Wilson of Los Angeles, Mr. Arthur A. Wilson of Jersey City, one sister, Mrs. C. Ennis Kerr of Decatur, as well as a number of grandchildren and great grandchildren.

The funeral will be held at 11 o'clock Thursday morning at the Second Baptist Church. Dr. Henry Alford Porter, the pastor, will conduct the services, assisted by Rev. A. T. Spaulding and Rev. Virgil Norcross.

Interment will be at Oakland Cemetery.