She was a strong advocate of "equal rights" and although her birthplace was in Maryland, a slave State, and having been reared and educated under that influence, she was always opposed to slavery.

[3] Immediately after having finished her education, she wrote a book on the history of trees, plants and flowers, with the language and sentiment in poetry.

[4] On December 1, 1863, she married Augustus Wilson (born 1836),[1] of Ohio, in which State they settled, after traveling extensively in the U.S. and British America.

In 1880, she was elected president of the congressional work of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in Kansas.

[4] At the age of 15, she became a life member of the American Missionary Society in which she was an active participant both in works that pertained to home and foreign interests.

She served in many public enterprises, such as the Bartholdi monument fund, the relief association for drouth-smitten farmers in Kansas, and the New Orleans expositions.

[4] By request of President Chester A. Arthur, Governor George Washington Glick, of Kansas appointed Wilson to be Lady Commissioner to the Industrial Cotton Centennial Exposition at New Orleans in 1883, where she achieved national distinction and honor for her state and herself.

She personally solicited money, books, lumber and merchandise from corporations, societies and merchants in the Eastern U.S., and from the citizens of the state generally, and liberally gave her time to the project.

She erected a large house, built in plain view of the trains passing on the Katy.

Her walls were covered with the choicest paintings and works of art, while every available space was filled with statuary of the old masters and patriots of the world.

[5] In 1888, she established the Wilsonton Journal, of which she was editor and proprietor, having one of the finest press buildings in the state, also erected by herself.

[4] She was a contributor in poetry and prose to various periodicals of the U.S.[1] Pursuant to a call for a public meeting on December 1, 1898, Wilson organized at her Wilsonton residence, in Wilson chapel, a branch of the Universal Peace Union (UPU) by request of President Alfred H. Love, of the Universal Peace Union, and his executive committee.

[4] Later in life, she became a Spiritualist in belief and at her Wilsonton farm, she had a small chapel where at times, she held service.

But the state officials there would not admit her, owing to her age, and she was taken to Bartlesville, Oklahoma, where her family members lived and who were willing to take charge of and care for her.