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- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 "Felix Z. Wilson Rites Tomorrow. County Register Dies After Long Illness; Held Many Offices" . The Tennessean. March 3, 1950. pp. 1, 6. Retrieved April 19, 2018– via Newspapers.com.
- 1 2 3 4 "Friends of Metropolitan Archives of Nashville and Davidson County, TN". Archived from the original on 2016-03-13. Retrieved 2013-03-19.
- ↑ "A Good Name" . The Tennessean. March 3, 1950. p. 23. Retrieved April 19, 2018– via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ Kriste Lindenmeyer (ed.), Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Lives: Women in American History, Rowman & Littlefield, 2000, p. 210
- 1 2 "Felix Z. Wilson Rites Will Be Held Today" . The Tennessean. March 4, 1950. p. 10. Retrieved April 19, 2018– via Newspapers.com.
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