Sterling L. Wesson and Family

Sterling L. Wesson was born in Tennessee about the year 1835 to William and Sarah Wesson. 

He married on 22 September 1855 in Shelby County Tennessee, Miss Martha G. Rideout, daughter of John Rideout & Lucy Williams.

Of this marriage was born one daughter:

Lucy A. Wesson
Born: March 1854, Tennessee
Married: 29 July 1869 to Benjamin J. Thomas (son of Green J. Thomas & Susan Dortch.)
Died: Between 1910-1920 Mountain, Garland County, Arkansas.

Sterling L. Wesson served in Company G & H, 21st Arkansas Infantry in the War of Northern Aggression.



Report of his death at the Ft. Pillow Tennessee Uprising.