Amelia Wilson - Biographical Information

Facts, news coverage, and artifacts related to the 1969 murder of Amelia Wilson. This archive was assembled by Joseph Topping in conjunction with his reporting and writing on the case. Please credit the archive if its material is used.

Amelia Kathleen Braithwaite Wilson

Born: 20 Apr 1936, Berkeley County, West Virginia
Died: 28 Aug 1969 (aged 33), Charles Town, Jefferson , West Virginia
Burial: Pleasant View Memory Gardens - Martinsburg, Berkeley County, West Virginia

Father: Martin Ellis Braithwaite (1903 - 1981)
Mother: Charlotte Virginia Prather (1903 - 1968)

SSN: 236-56-3388

Family Members:

• Ex-husband
  • Robert Eugene Wilson
    • Marriage to Amelia Kathleen Braithwaite
      • Married: 26 Aug 1955 - Martinsburg, Berkeley, West Virginia
      • Divorced: Date unknown
        
    • Born: 2 May 1932 in Washington, District of Columbia
    • Died: 27 Oct 1983 (aged 51) in Richmond, Virginia
      
    • Buried: Rest Haven Cemetery, Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland, USA
    • Mother: Ruth Anna Daywalt Fecteau (3 Apr 1904 - 8 Apr 1983)
    • Father: Listed as unknown on documents
    • Stepfather: Joseph N. Fecteau (25 Dec 1896 - 8 Jan 1969)
    • Second wife: Maggie Marie Loveless Poole Wilson
      • Married: 10 February 1959
• Children
  • Gary Eugene Wilson
    • Born: 1956
    • Died: 2024
  • Steven Wayne Wilson
    • Born: 1959
  • Melinda “Linda” Tanner Minnick 
    
    • Born: 22 Jul 1961
    • Died: 16 Oct 2021
    • Given up for adoption at birth
  • Steven Pyles (Louis William Wilson)
    • Born: 1964
    • Given up for adoption at birth