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John Lyde Wilson

Wallace, South Carolina
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Stony Hill, near this site, was the boyhood home of John Lyde Wilson, a State Senator and Representative, Governor of South Carolina from 1822 to 1824, and author of The Code of Honor (1838), which was widely used by ante-bellum duellists. His parents, John Wilson and Mary Lide, are buried in the nearby Wilson family cemetery. In 1957, a tornado destroyed the home.
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Wallace, South Carolina · United States

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