Henrietta Cotton Wilson

Biography:

Henrietta Cotton Wilson was the wife of former Governor of West Virginia E. Willis Wilson and served as that state's First Lady 1885-1890. She was born in 1847 at Charleston West Virginia a daughter of prominent doctor John T. Cotton and Sara Ashton Fitzhugh Cotton. In 1874 she married E. Willis Wilson. She was the first governor's wife to serve an entire term at Charleston. She died at Charleston in 1915.