[Wilson]. American authoress, born in Columbus, GA, on the 8th of May 1835. For two years during the Mexican War she lived with her parents in the frontier town of San Antonio, TX, but in 1849 the family settled in Mobile, AL. Miss Evans was a zealous sympathizer with the South during the Civil War, and labored to advance the cause of the Confederacy. She was married in 1868 to L. M. Wilson, of Mobile. She was the author of the very popular novels, Beulah (1859); Macaria (1863, 1895); Inez (1856, 1895); St. Elmo (1866); Vashti (1867); Infelice (1876); and At the Mercy of Tiberius (1887).
