Mrs. Wilson Rites Here On Saturday

Contributed by: Jeanette Martin
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Taken from the Atlanta Journal and Constitution 
which is dated Sunday, May 28, 1972


 Graveside services for Mrs. Lula Kingsbery Wilson, 91, for whom 
the old Lula I. Kingsbery School was named, will be held at 2 p.m. 
Saturday in Oakland Cemetery.  Dr William I. Howell will officiate.

 Mrs. Wilson, principal of the elementary school for 37 years, 
died Thursday. She was the widow of Fred S. Wilson and lived at 
870 St Charles Ave. NE.

 Born in Carrollton, Mrs. Wilson was the daughter of the late 
Joseph Kingsbery, the founder and first president of Piedmont 
Driving Club. She was a graduate of Emory University, Agnes 
Scott College and Oglethorpe College.

 As a young woman, Mrs. Wilson was a sponsor at a Confederate 
reunion and met Jefferson Davis. Among her many Civil War souvenirs 
was a gunbelt her father used as a cavalry officer.

 During the Spanish-American War, she was a guest at the launching 
of the battleships "Kentucky" and "Kearsage". She had also met Col. 
Charles A. Lindbergh when he came South after his solo flight over 
the Atlantic Ocean and was acquainted with Amelia Earhart, the 
famous woman pilot who disappeared in the South Pacific.

 Mrs. Wilson took her first plane ride during the 1920s in the open 
cockpit plane used by Secretary of  State Henry L. Stinson when he 
visited her father in Carrollton.

 She was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and 
the United Daughters of the Confederacy.

 Surviving is a sister, Mrs. Olive K. Barlett of St. Louis.