Rufus Tilson

Rufus was born in 1856 in ,Hawkins, Tennessee.¹   Rufus' father was Henry Tilson and his mother was Julia A.. He had three brothers and a sister, named Hugh F., Lilburn B., Horace J. and Alice.  He was the oldest of the five children. He had six half-brothers and three half-sisters, named Joseph, Henry Clay, William K., Jacob, Zacharias, Charles, Maria Elizabeth, Mary and Cynthia.