Sunday, October 24, 1915
Location: Louisiana
Paper: Times-Picayune
J B WILKINSON DIES AT MYRTLE GROVE HOME
Confederate Veteran, Prominent Citizen and Member of Distinguished Family
Joseph Biddle Wilkinson, the third of his name, died in the residence of Myrtle Grove Plantation at 3 o'clock Saturday morning.
The eldest of seven brothers, he was born in 1845 on his grandfather's Pointe Celeste plantation, in Plaquemines parish. After a short preparatory course in the Virginia Military Institute in the winter of 1861, Mr. Wilkinson entered the Confederate Army when barely 16 years of age, first serving actively on the Confederate ironclad Louisiana, in the battle with Farragut's fleet below the city. He escaped capture with the destruction of that vessel and joined the Confederate army in North Mississippi, later serving as adjutant to General Higgins Heavy Artillery in the first campaign against Vicksburg, and finally as adjutant to General Page at Fort Morgan, Ala., surrending with General Dick Taylor's army in May, 1865.
After a few years occupation in the sugar industry of this state, Mr. Wilkinson removed to this city, where for some years he was associate editor of the Evening Item and chief clerk in the office of the United States Appraiser.
In 1889 President Harrison appointed Mr. Wilkinson as one of the Democratic members of the Board of National Appraisers, with headquarters in New York. He filled that position with credit for several years, and then retired, returning to Louisana in bad health, hoping for recovery in his gonial native clime. But he remained an invalid until the day of his death.
Mr. Wilkinson was the oldest son of the well remembered Dr. J B Wilkinson, of this state, and Josephine Osborne Stark, of Mississippi, and was a great grandson of General James Wilkinson, of the United States regular army, and Anne Biddle, of Pennsylvania, and of General Stark, of the Virginia provincial army. He was a brother of Theodore, Andrew, Dr. Clement P, Horace, and James Wilkinson, of this state, and Earnest Wilkinson, of Washington, D. C.
As a veteran of the Army of Tennessee Mr. Wilkinson's remains will be interred Sunday in the tomb of that organization in Metairie Cemetery.
Location: Louisiana
Paper: Times-Picayune
J B WILKINSON DIES AT MYRTLE GROVE HOME
Confederate Veteran, Prominent Citizen and Member of Distinguished Family
Joseph Biddle Wilkinson, the third of his name, died in the residence of Myrtle Grove Plantation at 3 o'clock Saturday morning.
The eldest of seven brothers, he was born in 1845 on his grandfather's Pointe Celeste plantation, in Plaquemines parish. After a short preparatory course in the Virginia Military Institute in the winter of 1861, Mr. Wilkinson entered the Confederate Army when barely 16 years of age, first serving actively on the Confederate ironclad Louisiana, in the battle with Farragut's fleet below the city. He escaped capture with the destruction of that vessel and joined the Confederate army in North Mississippi, later serving as adjutant to General Higgins Heavy Artillery in the first campaign against Vicksburg, and finally as adjutant to General Page at Fort Morgan, Ala., surrending with General Dick Taylor's army in May, 1865.
After a few years occupation in the sugar industry of this state, Mr. Wilkinson removed to this city, where for some years he was associate editor of the Evening Item and chief clerk in the office of the United States Appraiser.
In 1889 President Harrison appointed Mr. Wilkinson as one of the Democratic members of the Board of National Appraisers, with headquarters in New York. He filled that position with credit for several years, and then retired, returning to Louisana in bad health, hoping for recovery in his gonial native clime. But he remained an invalid until the day of his death.
Mr. Wilkinson was the oldest son of the well remembered Dr. J B Wilkinson, of this state, and Josephine Osborne Stark, of Mississippi, and was a great grandson of General James Wilkinson, of the United States regular army, and Anne Biddle, of Pennsylvania, and of General Stark, of the Virginia provincial army. He was a brother of Theodore, Andrew, Dr. Clement P, Horace, and James Wilkinson, of this state, and Earnest Wilkinson, of Washington, D. C.
As a veteran of the Army of Tennessee Mr. Wilkinson's remains will be interred Sunday in the tomb of that organization in Metairie Cemetery.
Sunday, October 24, 1915
Location: Louisiana
Paper: Times-Picayune
J B WILKINSON DIES AT MYRTLE GROVE HOME
Confederate Veteran, Prominent Citizen and Member of Distinguished Family
Joseph Biddle Wilkinson, the third of his name, died in the residence of Myrtle Grove Plantation at 3 o'clock Saturday morning.
The eldest of seven brothers, he was born in 1845 on his grandfather's Pointe Celeste plantation, in Plaquemines parish. After a short preparatory course in the Virginia Military Institute in the winter of 1861, Mr. Wilkinson entered the Confederate Army when barely 16 years of age, first serving actively on the Confederate ironclad Louisiana, in the battle with Farragut's fleet below the city. He escaped capture with the destruction of that vessel and joined the Confederate army in North Mississippi, later serving as adjutant to General Higgins Heavy Artillery in the first campaign against Vicksburg, and finally as adjutant to General Page at Fort Morgan, Ala., surrending with General Dick Taylor's army in May, 1865.
After a few years occupation in the sugar industry of this state, Mr. Wilkinson removed to this city, where for some years he was associate editor of the Evening Item and chief clerk in the office of the United States Appraiser.
In 1889 President Harrison appointed Mr. Wilkinson as one of the Democratic members of the Board of National Appraisers, with headquarters in New York. He filled that position with credit for several years, and then retired, returning to Louisana in bad health, hoping for recovery in his gonial native clime. But he remained an invalid until the day of his death.
Mr. Wilkinson was the oldest son of the well remembered Dr. J B Wilkinson, of this state, and Josephine Osborne Stark, of Mississippi, and was a great grandson of General James Wilkinson, of the United States regular army, and Anne Biddle, of Pennsylvania, and of General Stark, of the Virginia provincial army. He was a brother of Theodore, Andrew, Dr. Clement P, Horace, and James Wilkinson, of this state, and Earnest Wilkinson, of Washington, D. C.
As a veteran of the Army of Tennessee Mr. Wilkinson's remains will be interred Sunday in the tomb of that organization in Metairie Cemetery.
Location: Louisiana
Paper: Times-Picayune
J B WILKINSON DIES AT MYRTLE GROVE HOME
Confederate Veteran, Prominent Citizen and Member of Distinguished Family
Joseph Biddle Wilkinson, the third of his name, died in the residence of Myrtle Grove Plantation at 3 o'clock Saturday morning.
The eldest of seven brothers, he was born in 1845 on his grandfather's Pointe Celeste plantation, in Plaquemines parish. After a short preparatory course in the Virginia Military Institute in the winter of 1861, Mr. Wilkinson entered the Confederate Army when barely 16 years of age, first serving actively on the Confederate ironclad Louisiana, in the battle with Farragut's fleet below the city. He escaped capture with the destruction of that vessel and joined the Confederate army in North Mississippi, later serving as adjutant to General Higgins Heavy Artillery in the first campaign against Vicksburg, and finally as adjutant to General Page at Fort Morgan, Ala., surrending with General Dick Taylor's army in May, 1865.
After a few years occupation in the sugar industry of this state, Mr. Wilkinson removed to this city, where for some years he was associate editor of the Evening Item and chief clerk in the office of the United States Appraiser.
In 1889 President Harrison appointed Mr. Wilkinson as one of the Democratic members of the Board of National Appraisers, with headquarters in New York. He filled that position with credit for several years, and then retired, returning to Louisana in bad health, hoping for recovery in his gonial native clime. But he remained an invalid until the day of his death.
Mr. Wilkinson was the oldest son of the well remembered Dr. J B Wilkinson, of this state, and Josephine Osborne Stark, of Mississippi, and was a great grandson of General James Wilkinson, of the United States regular army, and Anne Biddle, of Pennsylvania, and of General Stark, of the Virginia provincial army. He was a brother of Theodore, Andrew, Dr. Clement P, Horace, and James Wilkinson, of this state, and Earnest Wilkinson, of Washington, D. C.
As a veteran of the Army of Tennessee Mr. Wilkinson's remains will be interred Sunday in the tomb of that organization in Metairie Cemetery.
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