Among the many positions that she held, Wilson served as President General of the Confederated Southern Memorial Association (CSMA).

Her father, Lieutenant O’Connor, under the command of General Lucius J. Gartrell in the Confederate States Army, was one of five sons who died fighting for the Confederacy during the American Civil War, and one uncle, Captain James O’Connor, filled an unknown grave in the cemetery at Camp Chase, Ohio, victim to prison life.

When the order came from General William Tecumseh Sherman for the women and children to leave Atlanta, as he would shell and burn the town, with her mother and two little sisters in one end of a boxcar, and the African Americans they enslaved in the other, they fled.

One month was occupied in being transported the 175 miles (282 km) to Augusta, Georgia, where the family remained until Sherman had completed his destructive work.

[2] Wilson was educated in the private schools of Atlanta, and finished at the Young Ladies’ Seminary under Professor and Mrs.

Her election to the high office of President General to the CSMA came as a fitting conclusion to her years of devotion to the sentiments and traditions of the South.

[3] By appointment of State President, Mrs. Wilson with four other women, was selected to decide on the location of the Winnie Davis Memorial, which was given to Athens, Georgia.

For 12 years, she held the office of President of the Gulf States, which included Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi.

Among other notable offices held was that of Vice President to the Ladies’ Auxiliary of Grady Memorial Hospital, and she assisted in making possible the children's ward in that institution.