Individual Details

Lycurgus is listed as "Acurtes" in the 1850 census in the list with his mother in St. Louis.

However, Lycurgus is also listed at home with his family in Ohio Co, KY, 1850.
District 1, Hh 275
Lycurgus Wilson, age 28, carpenter, b. KY. Mary, age 22. John, age 1.
On the Slave Schedule he has one 4-year-old girl

1860 Census. Madison Twp, Waterloo P.O., Clark Co MO, Hh 24
L. Wilson, age 38, carpenter & farmer, b. KY. Mary D., age 33, b. KY
Jno H., 12, b. KY. Lucy J. 5, b. MO. Mary E., age 1, b. MO
Slave Schedule: Lycurgus Wilson had one 17-year-old female slave.

1870 Census. Washington Twp, Concordia P.O., Lafayette Co, MO, Hh 383
Lycurgus Wilson, age 49, farmer, b. KY. Mary 43, b. KY
John C., age 21, b. KY Lucy J. 15, b. MO. Mary E., 11, b. MO. Jefferson, age 7, b. TX

1880 Census. South Washington Twp, Lafayette Co, MO, 181
Lycurgus Wilson, age 58, farmer, b. KY as were his parents.
Mary D., age 54, wife, b. KY
Mary, age 21, daughter, b. MO
Jeff Davis, age 18, son, works on farm, b. TX


From History of Lafayette County, Mo., "carefully written and compiled
from the most authentic official and private sources" St. Louis, Mo.
Historical Company, 1881.

Lycurgus Wilson, post office Tabo, Missouri; son of John and Mary Wilson,
was born December 13, 1821, in Morgantown, Butler county, Kentucky, and
is of English and Scotch descent. In 1828 he came with his parents to
St. Louis, where his father died in 1837, and his mother in St. Louis
county, in 1867. In 1844 he visited Kentucky, remained there four years
following his father's trade, that of builder and contractor. July 1,
1847, he married Miss Mary D. James, of Butler county, Ky. He then
moved to Waterloo, Clark county, Missouri, where he continued his trade
for ten years. In 1861 he moved to Dallas county, Texas, and lived
there seven years. In 1868 he moved to this county and settled in Wash-
ington township, where he now lives upon a farm of 100 acres of good and
well improved land. He has kept the postoffice on the Warrensburg &
Lexington mail line for seven years. He has four children living: John
H., Lucy J., Mattie E., and Jeff Davis. He is a member of the Christian
church, his wife a Baptist. He is a Free Mason. His two oldest children
are married and settled close to him.

Buried Oak Grove Cemetery, Johnson Co, MO. Died age 64 years, 6 months, 17 days, on 1 July 1886. (no stone pictured)


Origin of the name Lycurgus is Greek:
From: The Story of the Greatest Nations and the World's Famous Events, Vol. 1, by Edward S. Ellis & Charles F. Horne, PhD

AS we begin to see definitely through the mists of Greek history, we find Sparta well established about the year 800 B.C. as the foremost state of Greece. Her power was largely due to the remarkable social organization which had been established by her celebrated law-giver Lycurgus. This noted ruler was, even more positively than Homer, an actual individual. He was a member of the royal house of Sparta in a time of tumult and civil war. His father and elder brother were both slain, and as the only surviving member of his race Lycurgus seized the throne, but when a boy was born to his brother's widow he resigned in the child's favor. Being accused of seeking to slay the infant, he withdrew into voluntary exile and spent years travelling in other countries seeking to learn by what laws they evaded the tumults which distracted his own land.

Returning at length when his nephew Charilaus was grown, Lycurgus found the disorder as wild as ever, so he persuaded the chief men to unite with him in seizing the power. He was made joint king with Charilaus and at once instituted the remarkable system of laws he had planned. So successfully did these pacify the state that the people hailed him as a god. Lycurgus then prepared to start on another journey and pledged all the people to uphold his laws till he returned. Then he left Sparta and never returned, so as thus to bind them forever to his laws.

Wikipedia.org:
Lycurgus is depicted in several U.S. government buildings because of his legacy as a lawgiver. Lycurgus is one of the 23 lawgivers depicted in marble bas-reliefs in the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives in the United States Capitol Lycurgus is also depicted on the frieze on the south wall of the U.S. Supreme Court building.

Birth	14 Dec 1821	Butler County, Kentucky
Marriage	1 Jul 1847	Butler County, Kentucky - Mary D James
Death	1 Jul 1886

Spouse	Mary D James (1827 - 1891)
Child	John H. Wilson (1849 - )
Child	Lucy J. Wilson (1855 - )
Child	Mary E. "Mattie" Wilson (1859 - )
Child	Jefferson Davis Wilson (1862 - )

Father	John Wilson (1785 - 1837)
Mother	Mary "Polly" Haden (1800 - 1867)
Sibling	Benjamin H. Wilson (1819 - )
Sibling	Nancy Wilson (1822 - )
Sibling	Leonidas Wilson (1824 - 1887)
Sibling	Agnes E. Wilson (1828 - )
Sibling	Sarah "Sally" Wilson (1831 - )
Sibling	Mariah Jane Wilson (1834 - 1865)
Sibling	Mary "Polly" Wilson (1837 - )