EPHRAIM WILCOX

Notes:

!CENSUS 1900 STATE OF UTAH
!MARRIAGE CERT STATE OF UTAH




EPHRAIM WILCOX
BY ANNA WILCOX BETTS


EPHRAIM WILCOX CAME INTO THE WORLD THE 15TH DAY OF FEBRUARY 1885, TO JAMES HENRY WILCOX AND HARRIET ANN DAY. IN THE SMALL SLEEPY TOWN OF CASTLE DALE, UTAH.
EPHRAIM WAS THE 3RD CHILD BORN TO THIS NICE COUPLE, THE 1ST DIED SHORTLY AFTER BIRTH.
EPHRAIM GREW UP ON A FARM AND DID THE THINGS A NORMAL FARM BOY WOULD DO. HE RODE HORSES, HERDED COWS, SWAM IN THE CREEK, HAULED HAY, ETC.
HIS FATHER WAS A STERN MAN AND BELIEVED TO SPARE THE ROD WAS TO SPOIL THE CHILD. SINCE EPHRAIM WAS ALL BOY HE GOT THE ROD QUITE OFTEN. HE ALWAYS SAID IF HE EVER HAD A CHILD HE WOULD NEVER LICK THEM.
WHEN HE WAS AROUND SEVENTEEN HE WENT TO SUNNYSIDE, UTAH, TO WORK IN THE COALMINES. IT WAS HERE WHEN HE WAS 21 THAT HE MET AND FELL IN LOVE WITH A BEAUTIFUL DARK HAIRED MISS WITH BIG BLUE EYES. ON THE 19TH OF MAY 1901 HE MARRIED MARGARET ANN SMITH, DAUGHTER OF ALFRED AND ODENA (MINNIE) EPHRAIMINE OLSEN SMITH.
THIS HAPPY YOUNG COUPLE LIVED IN SUNNYSIDE FOR A WHILE. IT WAS HERE THAT A LOVELY DAUGHTER, ARVILLA, CAME TO MAKE THEIR HOME EVEN HAPPIER. SHE HAD BIG GRAY EYES AND CURLY HAIR, THAT WAS LIGHT BROWN IN COLOR. THEN IN ABOUT 19 MONTHS THEY HAD ANOTHER BEAUTIFUL BABY GIRL. SHE HAD DARK EYES AND ALMOST BLACK HAIR, THIS WAS HARRIET ODESSA. THEY SOON MOVED BACK TO CASTLE DALE.
EPHRAIM HAD DREAMS OR VISIONS THAT HE WOULD GET KILLED IF HE STAYED AND WORKED IN THE MINE SO HE TOOK HIS SMALL FAMILY BACK HOME. HE DID FARM WORK AND WENT BACK TO THE MINES A FEW TIMES WHEN MONEY WAS REAL SHORT.
IT WAS HERE THAT THEIR 3RD DAUGHTER WAS BORN. SHE WAS A LIGHT COMPLECTED BABY. THEY NAMED HER ANNE EPHRIA. EPHRAIM?S SISTER HATTIE SAID THAT WHEN HE CAME TO TELL HER ABOUT THE 3RD LITTLE GIRL TEARS ROLLED DOWN HIS CHEEKS BECAUSE HE WANTED A BOY SO BAD.
THINGS THEN MADE A CHANGE AND IN 2 ? YEARS JAMES LU DELL CAME TO BLESS THEIR HOME. AT LEAST EPHRAIM HAD HIS BOY AND HOW HE LOVED THIS LITTLE BOY WHICH LOOKED MUCH LIKE HIS FATHER. DARK BROWN HAIR AND EYES. EPHRAIM WAS SHORT, 5 FT. 5 INCHES TALL, AND VERY HANDSOME.
IN ABOUT 3 YEARS ANOTHER LITTLE BOY CAME TO THEIR HOME ON THE 13TH OF OCTOBER. THIS BABY WAS SMITH HAZARD, WHICH WAS A SIR NAME BACK IN THE GRANDPARENTS OF EPHRAIM WILCOX.
SORROW WAS TO HIT THE WILCOX FAMILY IN DECEMBER; ARVILLA TOOK SICK ON A WEDNESDAY AND DIED ON FRIDAY JUST BEFORE CHRISTMAS. SHE WAS THEIR OLDEST CHILD. I CAN STILL HEAR EPHRAIM MOURN HER DEATH.
EPHRAIM THEN DECIDED TO MAKE A MOVE AND TRY TO GET A FARM OF HIS OWN, SO IN FEBRUARY THEY MOVED TO LA SAL, UTAH, (1917). THIS WAS IN SAN JUAN COUNTY. HERE THEY FIRST LIVED IN AN OLD SHEEP-SHEARING PLACE. THIS MOVE WAS MADE BY HORSES AND A WAGON, LOADED WITH ABOUT ALL THE ?WILCOX?S POSSESSIONS.?
AT THIS TIME THE BABY WASN?T VERY WELL. EPHRAIM WENT TO WORK FOR CHARLIE REDD. A RANCHER IN LA SAL, SAN JUAN, UTAH.
EPHRAIM FOUND 160 ACRES THAT HIS UNCLE HERB DAY HAD FENCED AND ABOUT 5 ACRES CLEARED. THIS GROUND WAS ALL COVERED WITH SAGEBRUSH. THE WILCOX FAMILY LIVED IN ONE OF CHARLIE REDD?S HOUSES. THROUGH THE WINTER EPHRAIM STILL WORKED FOR CHARLIE REDD. IF I REMEMBER RIGHT HE MADE $50.00 A MONTH. IT WAS HERE THAT ON THE 5TH OF JULY (I BELIEVE 26TH) CAME AGAIN AND THE BABY BOY DIED.
IN THE SPRING EPHRAIM BOUGHT A LOG HOUSE FROM A SAWMILL IN OLD LA SAL AND TORE IT DOWN AND BY TEAM AND HORSES MOVED IT ON HIS RANCH ABOUT 6 MILES. HERE HE REBUILT IT. IT SURE WASN?T MUCH TO LOOK AT, 16? BY 20?. JUST A ROUGH FLOOR BUT IT WAS A HOME. MARGARET ANN WAS A VERY GOOD HOUSEKEEPER AND THE LITTLE FAMILY OF MOTHER AND FATHER AND 3 CHILDREN THAT WERE LEFT NOW WERE HAPPY HERE. CLEARING THE LAND, GROWING BIG GARDENS, TRYING TO GET SOMETHING OF HIS OWN, EPHRAIM WORKED LONG HOURS. HE WAS REALLY A PIONEER HERE IN THIS PART OF UTAH.
HARD LUCK WAS HIS FOR A WHILE. HIS BELOVED MARGARET ANN BECAME ILL AND ON THE 10TH DAY OF SEPTEMBER 1924, SHE PASSED AWAY. SHE HAD BEEN IN BED FOR MOST OF THREE YEARS. SHE HAD PERNICIOUS ANEMIA AND THEN DROPSY. IT WAS HARD FOR EPHRAIM. MARGARET ANN HAD BEEN IN THE LDS HOSPITAL AND CAME HOME, LOST THE BLOOD THAT THEY GAVE HER AND TURNED TO DROPSY. SHE DIED IN MOAB. EPHRAIM HAD TAKEN HER THERE WHERE HIS SISTER HATTIE RAN A CAF? AND HOTEL. SHE STAYED THERE AND SHE THOUGHT THE ALTITUDE WAS TOO HIGH IN LA SAL.
EPHRAIM?S FINANCES WERE ZERO SO HE GOT A FELLOW THAT RAN A LUMBERYARD TO BUILD A CASKET. IT WAS HARD TO BE LEFT WITH 3 CHILDREN, LU DELL 10, ANNA 13, AND ODESSA 15. A FARM AND NO WIFE TO HELP KEEP THINGS GOING. THE CHILDREN STAYED IN MOAB WITH HATTIE AND EPHRAIM WENT BACK TO LA SAL ALONE.
EPHRAIM THEN WAS BUILDING A MILK HERD AND WORKED FOR CHARLIE REDD. THE KIDS CAME HOME IN THE SUMMER, AS THERE WAS NO HIGH SCHOOL IN LA SAL.
WHEN ODESSA WAS ALMOST 18 SHE WAS MARRIED. THAT LEFT EPHRAIM WITH THE TWO CHILDREN, ANNA AND LU DELL. EPHRAIM HAD AN AUNT LIL DAY SMITH, THAT CAME TO VISIT HIM AND SHE TOLD HIM OF AN OLD GIRL FRIEND THAT WAS NOW A WIDOW. SO EPHRAIM BEING VERY LONELY WROTE TO THIS LADY WHOSE HUSBAND HAD DIED AND LEFT HER WITH FIVE CHILDREN, ONE OF WHICH HAD BEEN KILLED IN AN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT. SOON A ROMANCE WAS BLOSSOMED AND IN DECEMBER OF 1927 EPHRAIM WENT TO ORANGEVILLE, A TOWN NOT FAR FROM HIS OLD HOMETOWN, CASTLE DALE, AND MARRIED THIS WIDOW WITH 4 CHILDREN AT HOME. THIS WIDOW?S NAME WAS LINDA WOODARD DENNISON. HER CHILDREN: DELLA, LEONARD, DORA AND MAX. MAX WAS ABOUT 2 YEARS OLD.
EPHRAIM AND HIS NEW WIFE HAD A BABY IN ABOUT A YEAR NAMED LINDA LOU. ANNA LEFT TO LIVE WITH ODESSA AND WHEN LU DELL WAS OLD ENOUGH HE ALSO LEFT TO GO JOIN THE NAVY. EPHRAIM WAS A BUSY MAN WITH HIS 2ND FAMILY. THEY HAD ANOTHER DAUGHTER, RUTH DUZON. WITH EPHRAIM?S 5 AND LINDA?S 5 AND THEIR 2 IT MADE A DOZEN CHILDREN BETWEEN THEM.
EPHRAIM HAD A GOOD HERD OF MILK COWS AND SHIPPED CREAM AND SOME BEEF CATTLE GRADUALLY. HE BOUGHT FARMS THAT HAD BEEN REPOSSESSED BY MOAB STATE BANK AND HAD BEEN JUST LEFT FOR TAXES SO IT WASN?T LONG UNTIL HE HAD AROUND NINE HUNDRED ACRES OF FARMLAND AND SOME RANGE RIGHTS FOR IS CATTLE.
EPHRAIM?S SON LU DELL NOW LIVED IN CALIFORNIA SO HE MADE A FEW TRIPS TO CALIFORNIA TO SEE HIS ONLY SON. ODESSA AND 1ST HUSBAND (FRED WEILER) HAD DIVORCED. SHE MARRIED REX BOHLEEN, HE VISITED HER ALSO.
THERE WAS LOTS OF TRIALS FOR EPHRAIM, DROUGHT, A YEAR OR TWO AND THE DEPRESSION, BUT THE 2ND WORLD WAR BROKE AND THE RANCH BEGAN TO PAY OFF. BEEF BEGAN TO BRING PRICE AND EPHRAIM WAS A HARD WORKER AND STAYED OUT OF DEBT SO HE MADE GOOD. HIS 2ND CHILDREN MARRIED AND MAX STAYED AND RAN THE RANCHES AND AS EPHRAIM GREW OLD HE SOLD THE RANCH TO MAX AND RETIRED.
IN 1962 HE CAME UP TO POCATELLO AND HAD HIS BELOVED MARGARET ANN SEALED TO HIM IN THE IDAHO FALLS TEMPLE. HE ALSO HAD ARVILLA, ANNA, LU DELL AND SMITH HAZARD SEALED AT THE SAME TIME. ARVILLA AND SMITH HAZARD BY PROXY. A GLORIOUS EXPERIENCE FOR EPHRAIM. HE WAS 78 YEARS OLD. BEFORE MARGARET ANN DIED HE PROMISED THAT WHEN HE WAS FORTY HE WOULD BECOME ACTIVE IN THE LDS CHURCH AND TAKE HER TO THE TEMPLE TO BE SEALED FOR ALL TIME AND ETERNITY BUT WHEN HE WAS FORTY SHE HAD GONE BACK TO HER FATHER IN HEAVEN.
MANY THINGS HAPPENED DURING THE LIFE OF EPHRAIM WILCOX. TWO WORLD WARS, 2 DEPRESSIONS, AIRPLANES, RADIO, TELEVISION. HE LIVED MOST OF HIS LIFE WITHOUT ELECTRICITY, BECAUSE THERE WAS NONE IN LA SAL, UTAH. HE NEVER HAD A TELEPHONE NOR DROVE A CAR, BUT HE OWNED MANY CARS AND TRUCKS, HIS BOYS DROVE THEM. WHEN HE WAS 84 YEARS OLD HE WENT FROM MOAB TO POCATELLO, IDAHO BY AIRPLANE TO VISIT HIS DAUGHTER ANNA BETTS, HE SAID HE ENJOYED THE TRIP AND THAT HE HAD ALWAYS WANTED TO RIDE A PLANE.
ONE MORE SADNESS WAS TO COME TO EPHRAIM. HIS SECOND WIFE PASSED AWAY BUT THIS TIME HE HAD PLENTY OF MONEY AND BURIED HER IN STYLE.
EPHRAIM HELPED LINDA RAISE SEVERAL OF HER GRAND SONS AND HELPED SEND ONE ON A MISSION. HE ALSO HELPED SOME TO SEND A GRAND DAUGHTER, CALLEEN BETTS ON A MISSION TO CANADA.
HIS LAST FIVE YEARS WERE NOT SO PLEASANT, HE BECAME ALMOST BLIND AND HE LOST ALMOST ALL OF HIS HEARING. THIS I?M SURE IS WHAT MADE HIM SENILE HIS LAST FEW YEARS.
HE DIED THE 27TH DAY OF JULY 1973 IN A REST HOME IN MONTROSE, COLORADO. HE TAUGHT ALL HIS CHILDREN TO WORK, TO BE HONEST AND TRUTHFUL. HE LOVED HIS CHILDREN AND HIS STEPCHILDREN AND HIS GRANDCHILDREN AND GREAT GRAND CHILDREN.
HE WAS A FAITHFUL PIONEER AND A GOOD FATHER AND NEVER LICKED ANY OF IS CHILDREN. I THINK HE ONLY OWNED ONE DRESS SUIT IN HIS MARRIED LIFE. WHEN HE DRESSED UP IT WAS TO WEAR A NEW PAIR OF BIB OVERALLS AND A STETSON HAT.
HE WAS OVER 60 YEARS OLD BEFORE HE GOT INDOOR PLUMBING. HE WAS ALWAYS HEALTHY. HE HAD QUINCY ONCE WHEN I WAS A CHILD AND THAT?S THE ONLY TIME I REMEMBER OF HIM BEING ILL. UNTIL HE GOT OLD. EPHRAIM DIDN?T GET MUCH SCHOOLING BUT HAD A BRILLIANT MIND AND COULD DO MATH WITHOUT ANY PROBLEM.
HE OFTEN TOLD US THAT THE WORDS MOVED AROUND ON THE PAGES SO EVEN AS A CHILD, HE NEEDED GLASSES. HE WAS ONE OF THE HARDEST WORKING PEOPLE. HE WAS WISE WITH HIS MONEY AND KNEW HOW TO SPEND IT. HE COULD ENDURE HARDSHIPS.
HE WAS A LOVEABLE KIND PERSON, A STANCH REPUBLICAN AND ALWAYS VOTED FOR HIS PARTY
I AM PROUD TO CALL EPHRAIM WILCOX MY DAD.
(ADDED: SO AM I. ODESSA)






A BRIEF HISTORY OF EPH WILCOX
AFTER HE MOVED TO LA SAL.
BY MAX WILCOX 1983


EPH WILCOX WAS BORN FEBRUARY 15, 1885. HE MOVED TO LA SAL IN 1917. HE WAS ONE OF THE ORIGINAL HOMESTEADERS WHO CAME FROM EMERY COUNTY. HIS FATHER, JIM WILCOX WAS ONE OF THE ORIGINAL SETTLERS IN CASTLE DALE, EMERY COUNTY. OWNING A RANCH IN CASTLE DALE AND RANGE RIGHTS IN JOE WORK ON THE RANCH, BUT HARD TIMES FORCED HIM TO WORK IN THE COALMINES IN CARBON COUNTY AND DRIVE A FREIGHT WAGON BETWEEN CASTLE DALE AND SALINA. THIS TYPE OF WORK WAS NOT TO HIS LIKING. HIS UNCLE HERBERT DAY WAS AN EARLIER SETTLER IN LA SAL AND ENCOURAGED HIM TO COME TO LA SAL AND HOMESTEAD THE PROPERTY ADJACENT TO HIS. (NOW KNOWN AS THE RYNIO PLACE). HAVING VERY LIMITED FUNDS HE ARRIVED IN LA SAL WITH HIS TWO TEAMS AND TWO WAGONS AND HIS PERSONAL BELONGINGS. HE HOMESTEADED NW ?, SEC 13, T29S, R 24E. HERE HE BUILT A LOG CABIN, AND STARTED TO CLEAR THE BRUSH TO PLANT CROPS. HIS WIFE ANN AND CHILDREN FOLLOWED ON THE MAIL STAGE.
HE KNEW THAT THE LAND IN LA SAL WOULD NOT PRODUCE WITHOUT WATER. AND HE SOON REALIZED THAT THERE WAS PLENTY OF HIGH WATER IN THE MOUNTAIN, IF A DITCH COULD BE BUILT TO BRING IT TO THE CROPLAND. HE HELPED BUILD THE DITCH FROM TWO MILE CREEK TO BEAVER CREEK AND HELPED ENLARGE THE SMALL DITCH FROM LA SAL CREEK. THIS WAS DONE THE HARD WAY, WITH TEAMS, PLOWS, SCRAPERS AND HAND SHOVELS. THIS WATER WAS THE LIFEBLOOD TO THE SO-CALLED DRY FARMERS IN LA SAL. EPH WILCOX COULD (IT WAS SAID BY MANY AND BELIEVED BY HIS FAMILY) WATER MORE LAND WITH LESS WATER THAN ANYONE ELSE. HE DID HAVE IRRIGATION DOWN TO A SCIENCE. THIS HE HAD LEARNED IN BOYHOOD YEARS IN EMERY COUNTY. AND TO A LARGE DEGREE CONTRIBUTED TO HIS SUCCESS IN LA SAL.
HE SOON REALIZED THAT HE WAS NOT CONTENT WITH THE 160 ACRES OF LAND AND THE LIMITED AMOUNT OF WATER. IT WAS NOT AN ECONOMIC UNIT. AS SOME OF THE NEIGHBORS BECAME DISCOURAGED HE WAS ABLE TO PURCHASE THEIR LAND AND WATER RIGHTS. THESE WERE CHARLIE ZUFELT, ALBERT TUFF AND JESS LEEMASTER.
TO MAKE THE CASH MONEY THAT WAS NECESSARY TO RAISE THE FAMILY AND OPERATE HIS RANCH HE WORKED AWAY FROM THE RANCH. HE WAS RANCH FOREMAN FOR LA SAL LIVESTOCK OWNED BY CHARLIE REDD, FOR NINE YEARS. HE ALSO WORKED ON THE STATE ROAD WITH HIS TEAMS IMPROVING AND BUILDING THE ROAD FORM MOAB TO LA SAL. THE STATE ROAD FOREMEN WERE ALWAYS GLAD TO HAVE HIM WORK FOR THEM AND WOULD HIRE HIM BEFORE OTHERS BECAUSE OF HIS GOOD TEAMS AND HIS EXPERTISE AS A TEAMSTER.
HE BECAME VERY SELF-SUFFICIENT. THIS STEMMED FROM HIS EARLY MORMON UPBRINGING. HE HAD SEVERAL MILK COWS, RAISED A HUGE GARDEN AND FIELDS OF GRAIN AND HAY. FROM THE WHEAT FIELD HE WOULD HAUL THE WHEAT TO BE MADE INTO FLOUR, AND FROM THE GARDEN HE WOULD HAUL POTATOES AND OTHER PRODUCE INTO MOAB TO TRADE FOR CLOTHING AND OTHER STAPLES SUCH AS SUGAR THAT HE COULD NOT RAISE.
DURING THE DEPRESSION HE WAS BETTER FINANCIALLY THAN MOST OTHERS. MANY RELATIVES WERE DESTITUTE DURING THESE HARD TIMES. THEY CAME TO THE RANCH AND WERE FED AND HOUSED. AT ONE TIME THERE WERE 20 PEOPLE LIVING ON THE RANCH, WHO SAT AT HIS TABLE THREE MEALS A DAY.
LIFE WAS HARD DURING THE EARLY DAYS IN LA SAL. HE LOST HIS WIFE ANN AND TWO CHILDREN. ANN WAS ANEMIC AND AT THIS TIME THE DISEASE WAS FATAL. ANN WAS ONE OF THE EARLY SCHOOLTEACHERS IN LA SAL.
HE RETURNED TO CASTLE DALE TO CLAIM HIS CHILDHOOD SWEETHEART FOR HIS SECOND WIFE. LINDA WOODARD DENNISON, HAD BEEN WIDOWED BY THE FLU EPIDEMIC, AND THREE CHILDREN. HE HIRED A NEIGHBOR WITH A TRUCK (LUCIAN TANGREEN FROM RATTLESNAKE RANCH) TO FETCH HER AND HER BELONGINGS FROM CASTLE DALE. LINDA WAS INDEED AN ASSET TO EPH AND THE RANCH. SHE WORKED IN THE FIELDS AND TENDED HIS CHILDREN AS HER OWN. THEY ACQUIRED SOME TWENTY HEAD OF MILK STOCK. SHE AND THE OLDER CHILDREN MILKED THESE BY HAND, SEPARATED THE MILK, SHIPPED THE CREAM, ON THE MAIL TRUCK TO PRICE TO THE DAIRY, AND FED THE SKIMMED MILK TO BABY CALVES. SHE LOVED THE GARDEN AND THE CANNING OF THE PRODUCE. SHE WAS INDEED A REAL HOMEMAKER, HAVING A SPOTLESS HOME. MANY HAVE SAID THEY COULD EAT OFF HER FLOOR. TOGETHER THEY WERE PARENTS OF TWELVE CHILDREN, AND RAISED SEVERAL GRANDCHILDREN. SHE WAS A HELPMATE THROUGHOUT EPH?S LIFE AND CONTRIBUTED MUCH TO HIS SUCCESS.
HE STARTED ACQUIRING A FEW RANGE CATTLE, AS FINANCES WOULD PERMIT. THIS WAS A BOYHOOD DREAM TO OWN A HERD OF CATTLE. THE DEPRESSION WAS A BIG FACTOR IN HELPING THE HERD GROW, AS HE COULD NOT SELL THE OFFSPRING SO HE KEPT EVERYTHING.
EPH WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN BRINGING OTHER SETTLERS TO LA SAL. AMONG THESE WERE HIS FATHER, SISTER HATTIE AND BROTHER EDGAR, WHO TOOK UP HOMESTEADS NOW OWNED BY FRED MARKLE.
HE WAS THE ONLY ORIGINAL HOMESTEADER WHOSE RANCH IS STILL OWNED AND OPERATED BY THE FAMILY.
IN 1954 HE MOVED FROM THE HOMESTEAD, BUILDING A NEW HOME ON THE OLD LEEMASTER PLACE ON SECTION 10. HERE FOR THE FIRST TIME HE ENJOYED THE MODERN CONVENIENCES OF RUNNING WATER IN THE HOME.
HE WAS ACTIVELY ENGAGED IN FARMING AND RANCHING, WORKING IN THE FIELDS AND RIDING HIS HORSE UNTIL HE WAS 72 YEARS OLD. AT THIS TIME HE DECIDED TO RETIRE AND SELL TO HIS SON MAX. LINDA PASSED AWAY IN 1968. EPH WAS EXCEPTIONALLY OF GOOD HEALTH AND MENTALLY ALERT UNTIL TWO YEARS PRIOR TO HIS DEATH AT 88 YEARS OLD, ON JULY 27TH 1973.



AN ARTICLE WRITTEN TO THE EMERY COUNTY PROGRESS
WRITTEN BY ODESSA WILCOX BOHLEEN
AUGUST 4, 1973
RED BLUFF, CALIFORNIA


EMERY COUNTY PROGRESS;
I WANT TO SEND IN THE INFORMATION OF EPHRAIM WILCOX?S DEATH. THE OTHER PAPERS NEVER EVEN MENTIONED MY MOTHER?S NAME.

MOAB- EPHRAIM WILCOX DIED OF NATURAL CAUSES, JULY 27, 1973 IN MONTROSE, COLO. BORN ON FEB. 15, 1885 IN CASTLE DALE UTAH TO JAMES AND HARRIET ANN DAY WILCOX. MARRIED MARGARET ANN SMITH, 19 MAY 1906 AT PRICE, UTAH. HER LIVING CHILDREN, ONE SON, JAMES L. WILCOX OF SACRAMENTO, CALIF., MRS. REX (ODESSA) BOHLEEN OF RED BLUFF, CALIF., MRS. DELBERT (ANNA) BETTS OF POCATELLO, IDAHO.
HIS FIRST WIFE DIED, SEPT. 10, 1924 AT MOAB, UTAH.
MARRIED TO LINDA WOODWARD, DEC. 2, 1927 IN ORANGEVILLE. DIED IN 1968. HER CHILDREN ARE MAX OF LASAL, UT., MRS. LINDA LOU MCCUNE, CINCINNATI, OHIO, MRS. RUTH BAXTER, ELECTRIC CITY, WASH., STEPDAUGHTER MRS. LYNN (DORA) DAY, MOAB UT., 28 GRANDCHILDREN, SEVERAL GREAT GRAND CHILDREN, 2 GREAT GREAT GRANDCHILDREN; BROTHERS, SISTER, QUINT HENRY WILCOX OF SALT LAKE, EDGAR OF MOAB, UT., MRS. ANN TAYS OF KENILWORTH, UT., HALF BROTHERS, TRUMAN WILCOX, ARDEN WILCOX BOTH OF ABERDEEN, IDAHO.
FUNERAL SERVICES HELD TUESDAY IN MOAB. BURIAL IN GRAND VALLEY CEMETERY.


GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE
WILCOX LINE


JAMES HENRY WILCOX
BORN- 10 NOV 1855
BAPTIZED- 30 APR 1865 BY HARRY TIDWELL
CONFIRMED- SAME DAY BY DAVID CANDLIN
ORDAINED A TEACHER- FEB 1872 BY HENRY JOHNSON
ORDAINED AN ELDER- 1 JUNE 1881 BY JASPER PETERSON
ORDAINED A SEVENTY- 20 OCT 1897 BY CHRISTIAN D. FELST
ORDAINED A HIGH PRIEST- 15 NOV 1915 BY RICHARD R. LYMAN

HARRIET (HATTIE) WILCOX
BORN- 11 DEC 1882
BLESSED- 4 JAN 1883 BY J. W. SEELY
BAPTIZED- 14 JULY 1891 BY F. M. REYNOLDS
CONFIRMED- SAME DAY BY NIELS CHRISTENSEN

EPHRAIM WILCOX
BORN- 15 FEB 1885
BLESSED- 2 APR 1885
BAPTIZED- 18 JUNE 1893 BY C. P. ANDERSON
CONFIRMED- SAME DAY BY NIELS C. JENSEN

HENRY WILCOX
BORN- 8 MAY 1890
BLESSED- 3 JULY 1890 BY NIELS P. MILLER
BAPTIZED- 7 AUG 1898 BY NIELS P. MILLER
CONFIRMED- SAME DAY BY PETER FRANDSON
HENRY?S WIFE EDNA DIED AND HE MARRIED A WIDOW NAMED HAZEL H. HAWKINS WITH CHILDREN. ON THE 5 SEPT 1941 THEY TOOK THEIR ENDOWMENTS IN THE MANTI TEMPLE. HENRY WAS SEALED TO EDNA AND HAZEL WAS SEALED TO THE HUSBAND OF HER CHILDREN.

EDGAR WILCOX
BORN- 15 JUNE 1892
BLESSED- 4 AUG 1892 BY NEILS CHRISTENSEN
BAPTIZED- 12 AUG 1900 BY FATHER, JAMES HENRY WILCOX
CONFIRMED- SAME DAY BY SETH ALLEN
ORDAINED A PRIEST- 25 NOV 1912 BY ABINADI OLSEN
ORDAINED AN ELDER- 24 FEB 1923 BY GEORGE A. ADAMS

(WILLIAM) HAZARD (BILL) WILCOX
BORN- 13 OCT 1894
BLESSED- 6 DEC 1894 BY JOHN Y. JENSEN
BAPTIZED 2 NOV 1902 BY OLAF J. ANDERSON
CONFIRMED- SAME DAY BY RICHARD C. MILLER
ENDOWED- 16 FEB 1953
HE TOOK THE NAME OF BILL WHEN A BOY BECAUSE HE HATED THE NAME
HAZARD. THAT?S WHERE THE WILLIAM COMES IN. HE WAS BLESSED,
HAZARD WILCOX. HAZARD IS AN OLD FAMILY NAME DATING BACK MANY
YEARS.

QUINTEN WILCOX
BORN- 23 APR 1897
BLESSED- 6 JAN 1897 BY ALEXANDER JAMESON
BAPTIZED- 6 AUG 1905 BY ERASTUS P. RASMUSSEN
CONFIRMED- SAME DAY BY FATHER, JAMES HENRY WILCOX

ANNIE WILCOX
BORN 29 SEPT 1902
BLESSED- 7 DEC 1902 BY C. G. LARSEN
BAPTIZED- 9 OCT 1910 BY JOHN P. PEARSON
CONFIRMED- SAME DAY BY A. E. WALL

EPHRAIM married MARGARET ANN SMITH on 19 May 1906 in PRICE, CARBON, UTAH. MARGARET (daughter of ALFRED SMITH, FARMER & COOK and ODINE EPHARAMINE OLSEN) was born on 1 Jul 1887 in MAYFIELD, SANPETE, UT; died on 10 Sep 1924 in MOAB, GRAND, UT; was buried in MOAB, UT, MOAB CEM. [Group Sheet]

1. ARVILLA WILCOX was born on 14 Apr 1907 in SUNNYSIDE, CARBON, UT; died on 23 Dec 1916 in CASTLE DALE, EMERY, UT; was buried in CASTLE DALE, EMERY, UT.
2. ODESSA HARRIET WILCOX was born on 30 Jan 1909 in SUNNYSIDE, CARBON, UTAH; died on 28 May 1994 in RED BLUFF, TEHAMA, CALIFORNIA; was buried on 2 Jun 1994 in RED BLUFF, TEHAMA, CALIFORNIA.
3. ANNA EPHRA WILCOX was born on 26 Jul 1911 in CASTLEDALE, EMERY, UTAH; died on 3 Jul 1975 in POCATELLO, BANNOCK, ID; was buried in MT VIEW CEM, POCATELLO, ID.
4. JAMES LUDELL WILCOX was born on 20 Jan 1914 in CASTLEDALE, EMERY, UT; died on 7 Feb 1984 in SACRAMENTO, SACRAMENTO, CA.
5. HAZARD SMITH WILCOX was born on 13 Oct 1916 in CASTLEDALE, EMERY, UT; died on 5 Jul 1917 in LA SAL, SAN JUAN, UT; was buried in MOAB, SAN JUAN, UT.

EPHRAIM married MARY ALINDA LINDA WOODWARD on 21 Dec 1927 in PRICE, CARBON, UT. MARY was born on 28 Aug 1886 in ORANGEVILLE, EMERY, UT; died on 8 Apr 1968 in MONTROSE, MONTROSE, CO. [Group Sheet]

1. MAX C WILCOX was born on 26 Dec 1925 in SALT LAKE CITY, SALT LAKE, UT; died on 3 Nov 1997 in MOAB, , UTAH.
2. Living
3. Living

Notes:

!ORDAINED HIGH PRIEST NOV 15, 1915 BY RICHARD R. LYMAN !DEATH CERT STATE OF UTAH NOV 25, 1939
!CENSUS- 1860, 1870, 1880, AND 1900 STATE OF UTAH

!JAMES HENRY WILCOX--PATRIARICAL BLESSING 138:71.
BORN 10 NOV 1855, NORTH ODGEN,UTAH.
SON OF JOHN HENRY WILCOX AND MARY YOUNG.
RECD 9 APR 1903 AT MT PLEASANT, UTAH
TRIBE: EPHRAIM
PATRIARCH: EDWARD CLIFF
FILM NO 392,696 ODGEN FAMILY HISTORY LIBRARY







HISTORY OF JAMES HENRY WILCOX
BY GRACE CANDLAND JACOBSEN


JAMES HENRY WAS BORN NOVEMBER 10, 1855, AT NORTH OGDEN, UTAH. HE WAS THE SON OF JOHN HENRY OWEN AND MARY (YOUNG) WILCOX. WHEN HE WAS FOUR YEARS OLD HE CAME WITH HIS PARENTS TO MT. PLEASANT, WHERE HE GREW TO YOUNG MANHOOD. MEANWHILE, HELPING HIS FATHER ON THE FARM AND ASSISTING IN THE WORK OF THE NEW SETTLEMENT, WHICH WAS THEN BUT ONE YEAR OLD.
AS A LAD, JAMES HENRY WAS STRONG AND ALERT AND CAPABLE OF STRENUOUS LABOR WHICH REQUIRED SKILL AND FORESIGHT. HE WAS A MERE BOY WHEN THE BLACK HAWK INDIAN WAR BEGAN, BUT BECAUSE OF HIS DEPENDABILITY AND COURAGE HE WAS CHOSEN AS A SECRET SCOUT TO WATCH THE MANEUVERS OF THE RED MEN. AT OTHER TIMES HE ACTED AS A SENTINEL AND GUARD WHEN DANGER TO HIS OWN PEOPLE THREATENED TWO OF THE MOST DANGEROUS POSTS IN INDIAN WARFARE.
DURING THE PROGRESS OF THAT SIEGE OF MASSACRE AND BLOODSHED, JAMES HENRY BECAME ONE OF THE IMPORTANT FIGURES IN DEFENDING THE RIGHTS AND LIVES OF SETTLERS OF SANPETE AND SEVIER COUNTIES. MANY TIMES THE ARROWS FLEW AROUND LIKE HAIL, BUT HIS LIFE WAS SPARED TO DO THE GREAT WORK THAT AWAITED HIM.
THE HISTORY OF THAT TERRIBLE STRUGGLE, WITH ALL THE HORRORS IS A PART OF HIS OWN HISTORY AND THE COLONIZING OF THESE VALLEYS ARE A PART OF HIS LIFE WORK. TODAY HE ENJOYS THE HONOR OF BEING ONE OF THE FEW REMAINING BLACK HAWK INDIAN VETERANS OF THE STATE.
HIS FIRST VENTURE OUT INTO THE WORLD?S WORK CAME WHEN HE WAS SEVENTEEN. IN THE SPRING OF 1872, HE WENT TO AMERICAN FORK WHERE HE SECURED EMPLOYMENT ON A PRIVATE OWNED ROAD BEING BUILT TO A MINING CAMP IN AMERICAN FORK CANYON IN UTAH.
HERE HE REMAINED UNTIL THE FOLLOWING AUTUMN WHEN HE WENT TO COALVILLE TO TRY HIS HAND AT COAL MINING. THAT KIND OF LABOR WAS BOTH HARD AND UNPLEASANT. HIS NATURE REBELLED AGAINST THE DARK DUNGEONS OF DUST AND GRIME, AND THE UNPROGRESSIVE LIFE OF A POOR MINER. HE WAS FOR THE GREAT OPEN SPACES, ABOVE THE GROUND-THE PURE AIR AND THE GLORIOUS SUNLIGHT.
FORTUNE FAVORED HIM IN THIS DESIRE AND CALLED HIM TO BIG COTTONWOOD CANYON NEAR SALT LAKE CITY. HERE HE WAS ENGAGED BY A SAWMILL COMPANY TO CUT TIMBER, FOR THAT THRIVING INDUSTRY.
JAMES HENRY WAS A CONSCIENTIOUS WORKER AND SERVED HIS EMPLOYER FAITHFULLY AND WELL FOR FIVE SEASONS AND THEN HE DECIDED TO GO INTO BUSINESS FOR HIMSELF BY HOMESTEADING A TRACT OF FARMING LAND AT CASTLE DALE, UTAH, WHERE HE ARRIVED IN THE SPRING OF 1876. HE WAS 21 YEARS OLD. FOR 10 YEARS HE HAD BEEN AWAY WORKING HARD AND MAKING MONEY AND HE DECIDED TO VISIT HIS PARENTS AND ENJOY THE SOCIAL LIFE SO LONG DENIED HIM. THE DAY OF ROMANCE WAS AT HAND.
JAMES HENRY WAS TALL AND HANDSOME AND A GREAT FAVORITE WITH THE FAIR SEX. WINNING HIS WAY INTO THEIR HEARTS WITH EASE, BUT HE WAS ALSO A CLEVER AND CAUTIOUS SUITOR AND KEPT HIS AFFECTION INTACT UNTIL HE WAS SURE HE HAD FOUND HIS MATE.
THIS HAPPY EVENT OCCURRED WHEN HE MET MISS HARRIET ANN DAY, THE CHARMING DAUGHTER OF ABRAHAM AND CHARLOTTE KATHERINE DAY. HER BIRTH OCCURRED DECEMBER 27, 1864. SHE WAS NINE YEARS HIS JUNIOR, BUT THEIR NATURES AND INTERESTS BLENDED INTO THE IDEAL HARMONY THAT MAKES WEDDED LIFE A HAVEN OF PEACE AND COMRADERY, ONE OF THE RAREST AND MOST BLESSED THINGS IN LIFE.
AFTER A SHORT COURTSHIP THEY WERE MARRIED ON OCTOBER 27, 1880 IN THE ENDOWMENT HOUSE AT SALT LAKE CITY.
TWO DAYS LATER THEY WENT TO CASTLE DALE TO MAKE THEIR HOME ON THE SPLENDID FARM, WHICH JAMES HENRY, IN THE TIME, ACQUIRED UNDER THE HOMESTEAD ACT.
HERE THIS FINE COUPLE TOOK UP THE BUSINESS OF LIFE AS ALL PIONEERS DO IN THE SPIRIT OF FAITH AND THE DETERMINATION TO SUCCEED. THE FUTURE HELD NO FEAR FOR JAMES HENRY. HIS AMBITION WAS TO PROVIDE EVERY COMFORT AND LUXURY FOR HIS FAMILY WITHIN HIS POWER FOR WELL HE KNEW THAT THE WONDERFUL WOMAN HE HAD CHOSEN TO KEEP HIM COMPANY DOWN THE STREAM OF COMING YEARS, WAS WORTHY OF ALL HE COULD OFFER HER AND THAT HER KIND AND LOVING SYMPATHY, HER ATTITUDE OF SWEETNESS AND GOOD CHEER WOULD LEAD HIM SAFELY ON TO THE SHORES OF SUCCESS AND HAPPINESS.
HARRIET ANN WAS DEEPLY RELIGIOUS. THERE WAS NO DOUBT IN HER HEART AS TO THE DIVINITY AND TRUTH OF MORMONISM. SHE NOT ONLY SWAYED THE SCEPTER OF GOOD WILL IN HER HOME, BUT SHE KEPT ITS VERY ATMOSPHERE CHARGED WITH FAITH AND DUTY. IT WAS HER DESIRE TO SET A WORTHY EXAMPLE TO HER CHILDREN IN ALL THINGS, AND PRACTICE THE PRINCIPLES OF HER RELIGION TO THE BEST OF HER ABILITY.
WHEN HER HUSBAND WAS CALLED TO FILL A MISSION, SHE GLADLY CONSENTED AND SENT HIM FORTH TO PROCLAIM THAT SAME MESSAGE OF SALVATION, WHICH HAD BROUGHT HER GRANDPARENTS TO THIS GOODLY LAND.
HE DEPARTED FOR THE NORTHERN STATES MISSION, OCTOBER 16, 1897, AND LABORED IN INDIANA AND VICINITY UNTIL DECEMBER 23, 1899, WHEN HE RETURNED HOME.
DURING HIS ABSENCE, HARRIET ANN MANAGED THE FARM WORK AND CARRIED THE BURDEN OF RESPONSIBILITY THAT FELL UPON HER FRAIL SHOULDERS AS ALL TRUE CHRISTIANS CARRY WITHOUT COMPLAINT, THE CROSS OF SACRIFICE, THAT FOR ANOTHER?S SAKE.
JAMES HENRY AND HARRIET ANN LIVED HAPPILY TOGETHER FOR 22 YEARS. PROSPERITY AND GOOD FORTUNE CAME THEIR WAY OVER THE ROUGH ROAD OF GOOD HARD WORK. THEY WERE COUNTED AMONG THE WELL-TO-DO OF CASTLE DALE AND THEIR FINE STABLE CITIZENSHIP PLACED THEM HIGH IN THE ESTIMATION OF THAT COMMUNITY, AND ALL WAS WELL AS FAR AS HUMAN EYES COULD SEE, AND HOW MERCIFUL IS PROVIDENCE IN CLOSING THAT DOOR UPON ALL OF LIFE?S CALAMITIES UNTIL WE ARE THERE TO MEET THEM.
AND SO IT WAS IN THIS CASE, NO ONE WAS PERMITTED TO SEE THE UNWELCOME RAVEN OF SORROW ABOUT TO SWOOP DOWN UPON THEM AND LEAVE IN ITS WAKE BROKEN HEARTS AND A DESOLATE HOME.
SEPTEMBER 29, 1902 WAS INDEED A DAY OF MOURNING, FOR ON THAT DAY, HARRIET ANN WENT AWAY BEYOND THE MISTS OF MORTALITY LEAVING AN INFANT DAUGHTER, BUT A FEW HOURS OLD. SHE HAD GIVEN TO THE WORLD ELEVEN LOVED CHILDREN; AND THEN LAID DOWN HER LIFE ON THE ALTAR OF MOTHERHOOD.
THIS GREAT TRAGEDY WAS THE BREAKING POINT IN JAMES HENRY?S LIFE. IT IS SAID THAT ADVERSITY IS SELDOM CONTENT WITH ONE VISIT. THE TRUTH OF THIS PREDICTION WAS VERIFIED A FEW YEARS LATER, WHEN JAMES HENRY BECAME INVOLVED IN A TRANSACTION WHEREBY HE WAS OBLIGED TO FORFEIT ALL HIS PROPERTY TO SATISFY THE COURTS, WHICH HELD HIM TO HIS PROMISE TO PAY IN CASE THE PARTY WHOM HE HAD BEFRIENDED BY SIGNING A PROMISSORY NOT, SHOULD DEFAULT AND DISAPPEAR.
THIS DISTRESSING EVENT, COUPLED WITH THE FIRST, WOULD HAVE DISHEARTENED MOST MEN AND SET THEM DRIFTING, BUT NOT SO WITH JAMES HENRY. CASTLE DALE HAD BEEN THE SCENE OF HIS GREATEST HAPPINESS AND PROSPERITY, NOW IT WAS THE PLACE WHERE HE ENDURED HIS DEEPEST SORROW AND DARKEST DECEIT, BUT THE SPIRIT OF THE PIONEERS WAS IN HIS SOUL AND THE CONQUERING IMPULSE OF HIS FOREFATHERS BID HIM ARISE AND BEGIN ANEW, FOR THE WORLD WAS WIDE AND OPPORTUNITIES STILL AWAITED.
ACCORDINGLY, IN 1915, HE JOURNEYED TO MOAB, AND THEN TO SAN JUAN COUNTY AND TOOK UP ANOTHER FARM AS BEFORE ON THE HOMESTEADING PLAN. HIS RESIDENCE HERE CONTINUED FOR TWENTY YEARS, BRINGING THE ACTIVE PERIOD OF HIS USEFUL LIFE UP TO 80 YEARS.
IN THE AUTUMN OF 1934 HE GAVE HIS FARM TO HIS DAUGHTER, ANNA AND HER HUSBAND, WHO RESIDE THERE, AND CAME TO SALT LAKE CITY WITH HIS SON, EDGAR, WHERE HE HAS PERFORMED ORDINANCE WORK FOR THE PAST FEW MONTHS.
THEY REMAINED THERE UNTIL JUNE, 1935, WHEN THEY CAME TO FAIRVIEW TO MAKE THEIR HOME. HERE THEY LIVE TOGETHER DEVOTING MUCH OF THEIR TIME TO THE ALL-IMPORTANT TASK OF GATHERING GENEALOGY AND FAMILY HISTORY-A DUTY ENJOYED UPON ALL LATTER-DAY SAINTS FOR THE REDEMPTION AND SALVATION OF THEIR KINDRED.
IN CLOSING THIS BRIEF, IMPERFECT HISTORY OF THE WILCOX FAMILY, IT IS PLEASING TO NOTE THE STRONG, FIRM CITIZENSHIP, THE UNSTINTED SERVICES TO COUNTRY, THE AMBITION AND PERSEVERANCE, THE LOYALTY TO HOME AND RELIGION THAT CHARACTERIZES THIS OUTSTANDING GROUP OF PEOPLE, EVEN FROM THE FIRST GENERATION DOWN TO THE PRESENT TIME.
SURELY, THE VAST MULTITUDE WHO BEAR THE WILCOX NAME SHOULD BE PROUD OF THESE ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND CHERISH THIS PRICELESS INHERITANCE COMMITTED TO THEIR KEEPING, POINTING THE WAY TO HONOR AND SUCCESS.
IT ISN?T THE THINGS WE GATHER
FROM OUT THE EARTH?S VAST STORE
THAT COUNT, WHEN THE GAME IS FINISHED
AND THE RACE OF LIFE IS O?ER,
BUT THE DEEDS OF LIFE AND SERVICE,
AND THE HEALING BALM WE POUR
OVER THE CRUSHED AND BLEEDING HEARTS
WE LEAVE UPON THE SHORE.

THE FOREGOING ACCOUNT OF THE WILCOX FAMILIES WAS WRITTEN BY GRACE CANDLAND JACOBSEN, DECEMBER, 1935, UNDER THE DIRECTION OF EDGAR WILCOX, THE 8TH IN THE WILCOX LINE.

IN THE HISTORY ABOVE, THERE IS NO MENTION OF HIS SECOND MARRIAGE. HE MARRIED ELIZABETH ELLIS (STAKER) (DAY), ON THE 7TH OF APRIL, 1904. SHE WAS THE DAUGHTER OF NATHAN AND ELIZA (CUSWORTH) DAY, AND THE WIDOW OF GEORGE WILLIAM DAY. GEORGE WILLIAM DAY WAS A BROTHER OF HARRIET ANN DAY WILCOX. THEY HAD THREE CHILDREN.
TRUMAN AMBROSE WILCOX, BIRTH- 10 JAN. 1905
ARDEN JAMES WILCOX, BIRTH- 6 JULY 1907
OLIVE LORUNE WILCOX, BIRTH- 31 JULY 1909 DIED- 19 OCT. 1931

ELIZABETH ELLIS DIED 4 SEPT. 1949 IN FAIRVIEW, SANPETE, UTAH.

JAMES married HARRIET ANN DAY on 27 Oct 1880 in MT PLEASANT, SNPT, UTAH. HARRIET (daughter of ABRAHAM DAY and CHARLOTTE KATHERINE MELLAND) was born on 27 Dec 1863 in MT PLEASANT, SANPETE, UT; died on 29 Sep 1902 in CASTLE DALE, EMERY, UT. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

!CENSUS US CENSUS 1870

Notes:

TIMELINE OF JOHN HENRY OWEN WILLCOX

14 JAN 1824 JOHN HENRY OWEN WILLCOX BORN IN BENTON, SALINE, ARKANSAS.
ABT 1828 JAMES AND HAZARD WILLCOX BIRTHS.
16 FEB 1831 HAZARD WILLCOX, JR.'S DIED IN MARION, WILLIAMSON, MISSOURI. (JHO 7 YEARS OLD).
1833 CLARISSA JANE'S HISTORY STATES THEY WERE IN JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI.
NOV 1833 CLARISSA JANE'S HISTORY STATES THEY WERE DRIVEN OUT TO CLAY COUNTY, MISSOURI.
SUMMER 1836 CLARISSA JANE'S HISTORY STATES THEY WERE ASKED TO LEAVE CLAY COUNTY AND THEY MOVED TO RAY COUNTY, MISSOURI AND STAYED ABOUT A YEAR.
1837 CLARISSA JANE'S HISTORY STATES THEY THEN MOVED TO FAR WEST, MISSOURI.
? CLARISSA JANE'S HISTORY STATES THEY MOVED TO QUINCY, ILLINOIS AND THEY STAYED THERE UNTIL SPRING OF 1839.
1838 JHO BAPTIZED BY JOSEPH SMITH, JR. (JHO 14 YEARS OLD)
SPRING 1839 CLARISSA JANE'S HISTORY STATES THEY MOVED TO CHARLESTON, LEE COUNTY, IOWA.
1841 CLARISSA JANE'S HISTORY STATES SEELYE FAMILY FIRST MOVED TO NASHVILLE, MISSOURI.
03 FEB 1846 JHO ENDOWMENT AT THE NAUVOO TEMPLE.
29 SEP 1847 ARRIVED IN SALT LAKE VALLEY.
18 MAR 1848 JHO MARRIAGE TO MARY YOUNG IN SALT LAKE CITY, SALT LAKE, UTAH.
1848-1849 DREW A LOT IN THE SUGARHOUSE AREA. CLEARED, PLOWED, AND PLANTED. LIVED IN A BRUSH "SHANTY". CRICKETS DEVOURED THE NEW WHEAT. MOVED BACK TO OLD FORT TO LIVE WITH HIS MOTHER.
15 FEB 1849 FIRST CHILD HAZARD WILCOX WAS BORN IN SALT LAKE CITY.
1849 CALLED TO GO TO MANTI, SANPETE, UTAH.
13 JUL 1851 SECOND CHILD ELIZABETH WILCOX BORN IN MANTI.

1851 ONE OF 6 FAMILIES SENT TO ESTABLISH FORT HAMBLETON (MT. PLEASANT). WORK IN A SAWMILL ON PLEASANT CREEK.
SPRING 1853 DRIVEN OUT OF FORT HAMBLETON BY INDIANS. MOVED BACK TO MANTI.
1 AUG 1853 THIRD CHILD SARAH WILCOX BORN IN MANTI.
1854 MOVED TO PLEASANT GROVE
1855 BRIGHAM YOUNG SENT THEM TO NORTH OGDEN. STAYED ONLY ONE WINTER (TOO COLD).
10 NOV 1855 FOURTH CHILD JAMES HENRY WILCOX BORN IN NORTH ODGEN.
1856 BRIGHAM YOUNG SENT THEM BACK TO PLEASANT GROVE. STAYED FOR 4 YEARS.
17 JUN 1856 JHO SEALED TO WIFE MARY YOUNG IN THE ENDOWMENT HOUSE.
13 MAR 1858 FIFTH CHILD JOHN CARLOS WILCOX BORN IN PLEASANT GROVE.
1859/1860 BRIGHAM YOUNG SENT THEM TO MT. PLEASANT.
08 NOV 1860 SIXTH CHILD MARY MEHITTABIL WILCOX BORN IN MT. PLEASANT.
20 MAR 1863 SEVENTH CHILD CLARISSA JANE WILCOX BORN IN MT. PLEASANT.
06 OCT 1865 EIGHTH CHILD SABRA ELLEN WILCOX BORN IN MT. PLEASANT.
13 APR 1868 NINTH CHILD HANNAH EMELINE WILCOX BORN IN MT. PLEASANT.
23 JUL 1871 TENTH CHILD MARTHA ANN WILCOX BORN IN MT. PLEASANT.
01 AUG 1874 ELEVENTH CHILD JUSTIN AZEL WILCOX BORN IN MT. PLEASANT.
06 JUL 1909 JHO NAME LISTED ON PIONEER MONUMENT IN MT. PLEASANT.
21 NOV 1909 JHO DIES IN MT. PLEASANT.

JOHN married MARY YOUNG on 14 Mar 1848 in SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. MARY (daughter of JAMES YOUNG and ELIZABETH SEELEY) was born on 6 Jun 1831 in WHITBY, ONTARIO, CAN; died on 16 May 1928 in MT PLEASANT, SANPETE, UT; was buried on 19 May 1928. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

! 1851 US CENCUS UTAH, 1880 US CENCUS UTAH

BIRTH: DATE: JUNE 6, 1831 PLACE: WHITBY, ONTARIO, CANADA
ALTERNATE PLACE: WHITBERRY TOWNSHIP, UPPER CANADA
PARENTS: FATHER: YOUNG, JAMES ROSS MOTHER: SEELEY, ELIZABETH MARRIAGE INFORMATION:
SPOUSE: WILCOX, JAMES HENRY OWEN

TEMPLE ORDINANCE DATA:
BAPTISM DATE: MAY 27, 1964
ENDOWMENT DATE: JUNE 17, 1856 TEMPLE: ENDOWMENT HOUSE, SALT LAKE CITY, UT, USA
SEALED TO PARENTS DATE: NOVEMBER 3, 1965 TEMPLE: LOGAN, CACHE, UT, USA

COMMENTS: MARY WAS AMONG THE 5TH TEN OF THE LOWRY COMPANY THAT CAME TO UTAH IN 1847.

COMMENTS: AUTOBIOGRAPHY (1831-1848)--WRITTEN IN 1925. BORN IN WHITBERRY TOWNSHIP, UPPER CANADA, 1831. FAMILY CONVERTED TO LDS CHURCH BY PARLEY P. PRATT, 1837. TO MISSOURI, 1838. MORMONS RUN OUT OF MISSOURI. TO UTAH, C. 1848. WOULD APPEAR THAT THIS IS A SORT OF "ORAL HISTORY," INCLUDING A FEW QUESTIONS BY THE INTERVIEWER, A BROTHER ANDERSON--APPARENTLY GEORGE EDWARD ANDERSON, THE PROMINENT PHOTOGRAPHER. BOOKLET INCLUDES INTERVIEWER'S NOTES ON CONVERSATIONS WITH OTHER ELDERLY LADIES IN SPANISH FORK, 1925. MARY RAMBLES AND DOESN'T PAY MUCH ATTENTION TO CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER.

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MARY YOUNG WILCOX WAS BORN 6 JUNE 1831 IN WHITBY, ONTARIO, CANADA, A DAUGHTER OF JAMES R. (ROSS?) AND ELIZABETH SEELY YOUNG. SHE WAS THE SECOND CHILD IN A FAMILY OF NINE CHILDREN: JOHN, BORN 21 APRIL 1829; MARY, BORN 6 JUNE 1831;ANNA, BORN 27 AUGUST 1832; SARAH (SAL), BORN 8 OCTOBER 1834; ELIZABETH (BETSY), BORN 29 MARCH 1837; THE FOREGOING WERE ALL BORN IN WHITBY; HANNAH, BORN 10 MAY 1842, IN MADISON, LEE, IOWA. THREE CHILDREN DIED YOUNG: MEHITABLE, BORN 28 NOVEMBER 1839; MARTHA, BORN 9 JANUARY 1845; BOTH BORN IN IOWA; AND EPHRAIM, BORN 13 MARCH 1847 AT FLORENCE, DOUGLAS, NEBRASKA.
MARY'S PARENTS AND GRANDPARENTS JOINED THE MORMON CHURCH IN 1837. IN 1838, THEY MIGRATED TO MISSOURI. THEY WERE DRIVEN OUT AND WENT "DOWN THE RIVER" AND SPENT THE WINTER. IN THE SPRING, 1839, THEY WENT "UP THE RIVER" INTO IOWA, ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTH OF BURLINGTON. MARY CROSSED IOWA WITH HER PARENTS IN 1846. SHE REMEMBERED SEEING THE TEMPLE "SHINING LIKE GLITTERING GOLD." THE TREK THROUGH IOWA WAS EXARDUOUS. THE SOIL WAS VERY MUDDY AND, SOMETIMES, THEY HAD TO BUILD CORDUROY ROADS TO CROSS SWAMPY GROUND.
NEAR THE NEBRASKA BORDER, THE U.S. GOVERNMENT RECRUITED MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH TO ENLIST AS SOLDIERS IN THE MORMON BATTALION. MARY RELATED STORIES OF THE SAD PARTING OF WIDOWED MOTHERS WITH, SOMETIMES, AN ONLY SON; WIVES PARTING FROM THEIR HUSBANDS, OR SWEETHEARTS SEPARATED; A SCENE OF WHICH ONLY THOSE WHO WITNESSED IT COULD REALIZE THE SADNESS.
MARY RECALLED THEIR SUFFERING FROM LACK OF FOOD, CLOTHING AND WARMTH DURING THE ENSUING WINTER. IN THE SPRING OF 1847, SHE LEFT WITH HER FAMILY IN THE JOHN TAYLOR/EDWARD HUNTER/JACOB FOUTZ/JOHN LOWRY'S COMPANY, ON THE PIONEER TREK WESTWARD. AT JUST 16 YEARS OF AGE, SHE DROVE A SUPPLY WAGON WITH THREE YOKE OF OXEN WHICH SHE YOKED AND UNYOKED MORNING AND EVENING. SHE IS SAID TO HAVE HAD A SPECIAL SKILL IN WORKING WITH OXEN.
MARY WORE A BLUE DENIM DRESS, A SUNBONNET, AND A PAIR OF HIGH BOOTS; SHE DROVE THE OXEN WHILE WALKING BESIDE THEM. THE BOOTS SOON WORE OUT, AND SHE WENT BAREFOOT.
THE COMPANY IN WHICH THE YOUNGS TRAVELED ARRIVED IN THE SL VALLEY 29 SEPTEMBER 1847.
MARY WENT WITH HER FATHER TO CITY CREEK CATO CUT LOGS FOR THEIR CABIN IN SOUTH FORT. SHE MADE THE ADOBES FOR THE CHIMNEY. THEY MOVED INTO THEIR CABIN JUST BEFORE CHRISTMAS. MARY RECALLED, "NO KING COULD BE HAPPIER THAN WE WERE WHEN WE REACHED THE VALLEY AND BUILT OUR FIRST LOG CABIN." IN SALT LAKE VALLEY, JOHN TAYLOR GAVE MARY A BLESSING, IN WHICH HE COMMENDED HER WORK IN CROSSING THE PLAINS. HE PROMISED, "YOU SHALL HAVE A NATION OF YOUR POSTERITY. YOU SHALL BE BLESSED AND LIVE AS LONG AS LIFE IS DESIRABLE TO YOU." ON 14 MARCH 1848, MARY WAS MARRIED TO JOHN HENRY OWEN (JHO) WILCOX BY WILLIAM STEWART SEELY, WHO LATER BECAME FIRST BISHOP OF MR. PLEASANT WARD, UTAH. JHO HAD JOINED THE MORMON CHURCH AT NINE YEARS OF AGE, WITH HIS WIDOWED MOTHER, SARAH SEELAY WILCOX, AND AT LEAST TWO SISTERS IN MARION COUNTY, MISSOURI. THEY HAD BEEN PERSECUTED AND DRIVEN INTO IOWA, ILLINOIS AND BACK INTO MISSOURI.
WHEN LAND WAS DIVIDED AMONG THE SETTLERS, THE YOUNG COUPLE '"DREW" A LOT IN THE SUGARHOUSE AREA, WHICH THEY CLEARED, PLOWED AND PLANTED. THEY BUILT A BRUSH "SHANTY." THAT YEAR, CRICKETS DEVOURED THE NEW WHEAT, AND THE YOUNG COUPLE RETURNED TO OLD FORT TO LIVE WITH JHO'S MOTHER. AFTER HARVEST TIME, MARY WENT EVERY DAY TO GLEAN WHEAT IN THE NORTHERN AREA, WHICH HAD ESCAPED DESTRUCTION BY CRICKETS. BEFORE LEAVING HOME, SHE ATE A HANDFUL OF ROSE LEAVES AND DRANK A GLASS OF MILK.
JHO "GRUBBED" OAK AND SAGEBRUSH FOR A PECK OF CORN A DAY. IN RED BUTTE CANYON HE CUT A LOAD OF POLES, WHICH HE TRADED FOR 40# OF WHEAT. IN 1849, HIS YIELD WAS 70 BUSHELS. FROM FOUR SEED POTATOES, WHICH HAD COST .25 EACH, THEY HARVESTED A PECK OF POTATOES WHICH WAS KEPT FOR SEED, AND THEIR YIELD THE NEXT SEASON WAS 30 BUSHELS.
THEIR FIRST CHILD, HAZARD WILCOX, WAS BORN 15 FEBRUARY 1849, AFTER THE NEW MOTHER HAD GATHERED STRENGTH FROM REST, SHE WAS FED ONLY A SMALL PIECE OF CORNBREAD AND A DRINK MADE FROM BROWNED BRAN.
THE WILCOX FAMILY, AMONG MANY OTHERS, WAS TEMPTED TO GO TO CALIFORNIA TO "PAN" FOR GOLD IN 1849; HOWEVER, THEY HEEDED BRIGHAM YOUNG'S COUNSEL TO STAY IN THE SL VALLEY AND, IN MARY'S WORDS, "WE WERE BLESSED BECAUSE WE WERE NEVER THAT HUNGRY AGAIN."
IN 1850, THEY WERE CALLED TO GO TO MANTI (SANPETE), WHERE ELIZABETH WAS BORN 13 JULY 1851. THEY MOVED TO HAMBLETON (MT. PLEASANT) WHERE JHO WORKED IN A SAWMILL ON PLEASANT CREEK. ON 19 JULY 1853, WHILE HE WAS A LONE AT THE SAWMILL, JHO SAW INDIANS LURKING NEARBY. AFTER THE THIRD "PROMPTING" TO RETURN HOME, HE LEFT HURRIEDLY. THE INDIANS DROVE OFF THE LIVESTOCK, AND THEY BURNED THE SAWMILL, LOGS, AND LUMBER. THE FAMILY WAS LEFT DESTITUTE. YEARS LATER, MRS. FRED G. TAYLOR ASKED MARY HOW SHE FELT WHEN SHE LEARNED OF THE INDIAN RAID. MARY REPLIED, "MY DEAR, WE BOTH KNELT DOWN AND THANKED THE LORD THAT MY HUSBAND'S LIFE WAS SAVED."
THEY MOVED BACK TO FT. MANTI, WHERE THEIR DAUGHTER, SARAH, WAS BORN 1 AUGUST 1853.
THEIR NEXT MOVE WAS TO PLEASANT GROVE, AND THEN TO NORTH OGDEN FOR A TIME, WHERE A SON, JAMES HENRY, WAS BORN 10 NOVEMBER 1855.
THEY RETURNED TO PLEASANT GROVE, WHERE A SON, JOHN CARLOS, WAS BORN 13 MARCH 1858. JHO HAULED A LOAD OF STRAW FROM PLEASANT GROVE TO CAMP FLOYD AND RECEIVED $20.
IN 1860, AFTER HAVING BEEN ON THE MOVE, OR DRIVEN, FROM PLACE TO PLACE FOR MANY YEARS, JHO AND MARY BUILT THEIR FIRST PERMANENT HOME, A ONE-ROOM LOG CABIN ONE BLOCK WEST OF MAIN STREET ON THE BANKS OF NORTH CREEK IN MT. PLEASANT. IT WAS REPLACED YEARS LATER WITH A TWO-STORY ADOBE HOME. THEY WERE THE PROUD POSSESSORS OF TWENTY ACRES OF LAND LOCATED 3 MILES NORTH OF TOWN. HE BUILT A HOME AND FURNITURE FOR THEMSELVES AND OTHERS. MARY AND JHO WERE THE ONLY ORIGINAL SETTLERS WHO RETURNED TO HAMBLETON.
SIX ADDITIONAL CHILDREN WERE BORN TO THEM IN MT. PLEASANT: MARY MEHITABLE, BORN 8 NOVEMBER 1860; CLARISSA JANE, BORN 20 MARCH 1863; SABRA ELLEN, BORN 6 OCTOBER 1865; HANNAH EMELINE, BORN 13 APRIL 1868; MARTHA ANNA, BORN 23 JULY 1871; AND JUSTUS AZEL, BORN I AUGUST 1874.
FROM THE SHEEP THEY RAISED, THE PIONEER WOMEN CARDED AND SPUN THE WOOL AND THEN HAND-STITCHED THE GARMENTS WITH HAND-RAVELLED THREAD. SHOES WERE MADE FROM TOPS OF OLD, WORN-OUT SHOES AND BOOTS. SOME MADE MOCCASINS OF RAWHIDE, AND SOME WENT BAREFOOT--EVEN TO MEETINGS. FROM BUCKSKIN, MARY MADE A PAIR OF MOCCASINS. SHE WOULD CARRY THEM WITH HER STOCKINGS TO WITHIN A BLOCK OF THE CHURCH, AND THEN PUT THEM ON HER FEET. AFTER THE MEETING, SHE WOULD TAKE OFF THE MOCCASINS AND WALK HOME BAREFOOT.
THE WOMEN MADE SHIRTS FOR MEN FROM OLD WAGON COVERS. THEIR CAPS AND HEADWEAR WERE MADE FROM CLOTH LEFT FROM DRESSES. SUMMER HATS WERE MADE FROM STRAW. MEN WHO HAD COATS WHEN THEY CAME ACROSS THE PLAINS HAD TO GO WITHOUT FOR A LONG TIME AFTER THE COATS WERE WORN TO SHREDS. WEARING APPAREL WAS VERY SCARCE.
FOOD WAS ALSO SCARCE. OFTENTIMES, ALL JHO TOOK FOR HIS NOON MEAL WAS A PINCH OF SALT TO SEASON THE GREENS OR SEGOS HE WOULD FIND AND COOK. AFTER A FEW YEARS, SEED FOR SUGAR CANE WAS OBTAINED AND PLANTED; JUICE WAS EXTRACTED AND BOILED DOWN TO MOLASSES (SORGHUM); AND PIONEERS ENJOYED THE FIRST AFFORDABLE SWEETS. FOR A LONG TIME, THEY HAD NO SOAP TO WASH CLOTHES. ONLY AFTER THE SIZE OF THEIR HERDS INCREASAND THEY HAD SOME FAT ANIMALS DID THEY HAVE LARD OR TALLOW FOR SOAP AND CANDLES. THE WICKS WERE SPUN FROM COTTON GROWN IN ST. GEORGE. THEY MADE COTTON CLOTH FROM FIVE POUND BUNDLES OF BULK COTTON.
GEORGE HURST VISITED GRANDMA WILCOX IN FEBRUARY 1916. SHE SHOWED HIM A LOVELY QUILT SHE HAD MADE, SAYING, "1 AM 85 YEARS OLD, AND I WON'T PUT DOWN MY NEEDLE TO ANYONE IN THE STATE OF UTAH." (SHE WAS KNOWN FOR HER QUILTS, AND SHE MADE RAG DOLLS. ALENE B. STEWART OF LAYTON HAS ONE QUILT MARY MADE FOR HER DAUGHTER, SARAH.)
GEORGE ACCOMPANIED HER TO AN "OLD FOLKS' PARTY." AS THEY WERE LEAVING THE BUILDING, GRANDMA WILCOX SAID, "NOW, I'M GOING TO SHOW YOU THE KIND OF STOCK YOU'VE COME FROM." IN GEORGE'S WORDS: "AND THAT OLD SOUL WENT HOPPITY SKIP DOWN THOSE 12 OR 15 STEPS." SHE SAID, "THAT'S THE KIND OF STUFF IN YOU!"
SHE WAS TALL AND HAD BROWN, WAVY HAIR WHEN YOUNG. HER SPEECH WAS EXACTING, BUT MILD, WITH KEEN ARTICULATION. SHE MOVED WITH GRACE AND DIGNITY.
A SPECIAL TRIBUTE TO THIS COURAGEOUS LADY, WRITTEN BY LOFTNER BJARNARSON, WAS PRINTED IN THE DESERET NEWS:

SHE IS A FIGURE FROM THE PAST, THE LAST OF A LITE BAND OF STURDY PIONEERS .... HER WRINKLED BROW AND SUNKEN CHEEKS BEAR EVIDENCE OF YEARS OF TOIL AND STRUGGLE .... SHE ALWAYS HAD A GLAD WORD FOR ALL. HER MANNER IS DIGNIFIED AND MAJESTIC.
THOUGH NOT AWARE OF IT, SHE HAS THE AIR OF ROYALTY .... SHE HAS BEEN A TRUE DAUGHTER OF GOD, AN EMBLEM OF DEVOTION TO RIGHT, RELIGION, AND A LEADER IN THE CAUSE OF HUMAN BROTHERHOOD ....
THOUGH GRANDMA WILCOX NEVER LEARNED TO READ OR WRITE, HER LIFE WAS ONE OF ACTION. SHE DID HER PART IN LAYING THE FOUNDATION OF OUR GREAT COMMONWEALTH .... HER FAITH IN GOD AND HER FELLOWMAN [WAS] UNSHAKEN BY TRIALS AND HARDSHIPS SHE ENDURED.

IT IS KNOWN THAT MARY WAS A MIDWIFE AND DELIVERED MORE THAN THREE HUNDRED BABIES.
WE LEARN FROM MRS. FRED G. TAYLOR THAT MARY HAD A FIRM TESTIMONY THAT JOSEPH SMITH WAS A PROPHET OF GOD. MARY SAID, "IT WAS A WONDERFUL BLESSING TO LIVE IN THE TIME OF THE PROPHET JOSEPH. THE SAINTS FELT THE GREATNESS OF THE PROPHET, AND WHEN HE SAID, 'THUS SAITH THE LORD,' THEY COULD NOT DOUBT HIS WORDS AND KNEW THAT HE HAD HAD REVELATION FROM HIS HEAVENLY FATHER."
"COME, COME YE SAINTS" WAS MARY'S FAVORITE HYMN.
MARY AND JHO CELEBRATED THEIR 60TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY IN MARCH 1908, WITH NINE OF THEIR ELEVEN CHILDREN PRESENT. ELIZABETH HURST WAS LIV-ING IN MEXICO; AND THEIR SON, JUSTUS AZEL, LIVED IN CANADA.
JHO WAS ACTIVE IN HIS LATER YEARS. HE PASSED AWAY 21 NOVEMBER 1909; HE WAS ALMOST 86. HIS OBITUARY STATED THAT HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE NAUVOO LEGION; THAT HE HEARD THE PROPHET JOSEPH SMITH'S LAST SERMON AND WAS PRESENT WHEN THE MANTLE FELL ON BRIGHAM YOUNG; AND THAT HE WAS A FAITHFUL MEMBER OF THE CHURCH.
MARY WAS THE OLDEST MEMBER OF A LIVING SIX-GENERATION FAMILY: MARY YOUNG WILCOX; DAUGHTER, ELIZABETH WILCOX HURST; ALICE LUELLA HURST NIELSON; KATE ALICE NIELSON GUYMON; ALICE LOVERN GUYMON THAYNE; AND BONNIE GERTRUDE THAYNE.
JUST THREE WEEKS BEFORE HER 98TH BIRTHDAY, MARY PASSED AWAY MAY 16, 1929. AT THAT TIME, HER POSTERITY NUMBERED NEARLY SIX HUNDRED. THERE ARE, OR HAVE BEEN, IN THIS FAMILY OUTSTANDING MEN AND WOMEN IN ALMOST EVERY OCCUPAAND PROFESSION, INCLUDING ARTISTS, AND THEY HAVE FILLED NUMEROUS CHURCH POSITIONS FROM PATRIARCHS AND STAKE PRESIDENTS, A MISSION PRESIDENTS, TO NUMEROUS TEACHERS.
THE AUTHOR SEES THE INFLUENCE OF JHO AND MARY YOUNG WILCOX ON THEIR POSTERITY. I AM GRATEFUL FOR THEIR LIVES AND GLAD THAT I COULD PAY MY RESPECTS AND HONOR TO THEM IN THIS MANNER. I KNOW THERE IS MUCH MORE THAT SHOULD BE TOLD. BY RUBY HURST MORGAN, 1988

PARTS OF MARY'S STORY WERE TOLD BY HER ON JANUARY 27, 1924, AND TIMES THEREAFTER UNTIL JUNE 6, 1925, TO ANNIE CARLSTON BILLS, A GRANDSON'S WIFE. MRS. BILLS THEN WROTE THE STORY, AND IT HAS BEEN PRESERVED AMONG FAMILY MEMBERS. MARY DIED ABOUT 3 YEARS LATER. OTHER SOURCES ARE:

ALENE BILLS STEWART, DAUGHTER OF ANNIE C. BILLS.
JAMES LEROY KIMBALL JR., HISTORIAN AND CONIN THE CHURCH HISTORY OFFICES.
JOURNAL HISTORY (FILM #1,259, 735) 21 JUNE 1847.
BACKMAN, MILTON V., THE HEAVENS RESOUND, A HISTORY OF THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS
IN OHIO 1830-1838, DESERET BOOK, 1983.
HUNTER, MILTON R., BRIGHAM YOUNG, THE COLONIZER PEREGRINE SMITH.
BJARNSON, LOFTER, OVER DESERT TRAILS, ARTICLE IN DESERET .NEWS.
PRATT, PARLEY P., AUTOBIOGRAPHY, EDITED BY HIS SON, PARLEY PARKER PRATT, JR.
J. OWEN MEILING, A HISTORY OF JOHN HENRY OWEN WILCOX, GIVEN 1939, FLAT
CANYON.
HUGH HURST, A HISTORY OF MARY Y. WILCOX, GIVEN 1964.
WILCOX, EDGAR, (BRIEF) HISTORY OF EDWARD WILCOX I.
HURST, GEORGE ARTHUR JR., AN INTERVIEW OF HIS VISIT TO GRANDMA WILCOX, FEB.
19 OR 20, 1916.
DAUGHTERS OF UTAH PIONEERS HISTORIES SUBMITTED BY A. SARAH WILCOX BILLS B.
BLANCHE NIELSEN C. MARY NELSON SHAFFER D. MRS. FRED G. TAYLOR E. ELIZABETH
WILCOX HURST

SPECIAL THANKS TO HOLLIS W. ALLGOOD AND BELLE HARRIS WILSON. ALSO, CLAY I. PETERSON, LLOYD PETERSON, DEAN STAKER, GLORIA FOSTER, AND OLIVE WILCOX WOOLEN. OBITUARIES FROM THE DESERET NEWS AND THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE.
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WIGGINS, MARVIN E. MORMONS AND THEIR NEIGHBORS
WILCOX, MARY YOUNG 6 JUN 1831 -
HISTORY OF SANPETE AND EMERY COUNTIES, UTAH, WITH SKETCHES OF CITIES, TOWN, AND VILLAGES, CHRONOLOGY OF IMPORTANT EVENTS, RECORDS OF INDIAN WARS, PORTRAITS OF PROMINENT PERSONS AND BIOGRAPHIES OF REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS. [OGDEN, UTAH: W. H. LEVER, 1898.] P.278
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2726. WILLCOX, MARY YOUNG, 1831?
AUTOBIOGRAPHY (1831?C.1848)

DAVIS BITTON, GUIDE TO MORMON DIARIES AND AUTOBIOGRAPHIES (1977), PG.383
AUTOBIOGRAPHY (1831?C.1848)
HOLOGRAPH. 55 PP. 15.9 CM. HDC [LDS CHURCH ARCHIVES] (MS D 2050, 8, 11)

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WRITTEN IN 1925. BORN IN WHITBERRY TOWNSHIP, UPPER CANADA, 1831. FAMILY CONVERTED TO LDS CHURCH BY PARLEY P. PRATT, 1837. TO MISSOURI, 1838. MORMONS RUN OUT OF MISSOURI. TO UTAH, C. 1848. WOULD APPEAR THAT THIS IS A SORT OF "ORAL HISTORY," INCLUDING A FEW QUESTIONS BY THE INTERVIEWER, A BROTHER ANDERSON?APPARENTLY GEORGE EDWARD ANDERSON, THE PROMINENT PHOTOGRAPHER. BOOKLET INCLUDES INTERVIEWER'S NOTES ON CONVERSATIONS WITH OTHER ELDERLY LADIES IN SPANISH FORK, 1925. MRS. WILLCOX RAMBLES AND DOESN'T PAY MUCH ATTENTION TO CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER.SUS 1851 STATE OF UTAH, 1860, 1870, AND 1880

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MARY YOUNG WILCOX WAS BORN 6 JUNE 1831 IN WHITBY, ONTARIO, CANADA, A DAUGHTER OF JAMES R. (ROSS?) AND ELIZABETH SEELY YOUNG. SHE WAS THE SECOND CHILD IN A FAMILY OF NINE CHILDREN: JOHN, BORN 21 APRIL 1829; MARY, BORN 6 JUNE 1831;ANNA, BORN 27 AUGUST 1832; SARAH (SAL), BORN 8 OCTOBER 1834; ELIZABETH (BETSY), BORN 29 MARCH 1837; THE FOREGOING WERE ALL BORN IN WHITBY; HANNAH, BORN 10 MAY 1842, IN MADISON, LEE, IOWA. THREE CHILDREN DIED YOUNG: MEHITABLE, BORN 28 NOVEMBER 1839; MARTHA, BORN 9 JANUARY 1845; BOTH BORN IN IOWA; AND EPHRAIM, BORN 13 MARCH 1847 AT FLORENCE, DOUGLAS, NEBRASKA.
MARY'S PARENTS AND GRANDPARENTS JOINED THE MORMON CHURCH IN 1837. IN 1838, THEY MIGRATED TO MISSOURI. THEY WERE DRIVEN OUT AND WENT "DOWN THE RIVER" AND SPENT THE WINTER. IN THE SPRING, 1839, THEY WENT "UP THE RIVER" INTO IOWA, ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTH OF BURLINGTON. MARY CROSSED IOWA WITH HER PARENTS IN 1846. SHE REMEMBERED SEEING THE TEMPLE "SHINING LIKE GLITTERING GOLD." THE TREK THROUGH IOWA WAS EXARDUOUS. THE SOIL WAS VERY MUDDY AND, SOMETIMES, THEY HAD TO BUILD CORDUROY ROADS TO CROSS SWAMPY GROUND.
NEAR THE NEBRASKA BORDER, THE U.S. GOVERNMENT RECRUITED MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH TO ENLIST AS SOLDIERS IN THE MORMON BATTALION. MARY RELATED STORIES OF THE SAD PARTING OF WIDOWED MOTHERS WITH, SOMETIMES, AN ONLY SON; WIVES PARTING FROM THEIR HUSBANDS, OR SWEETHEARTS SEPARATED; A SCENE OF WHICH ONLY THOSE WHO WITNESSED IT COULD REALIZE THE SADNESS.
MARY RECALLED THEIR SUFFERING FROM LACK OF FOOD, CLOTHING AND WARMTH DURING THE ENSUING WINTER. IN THE SPRING OF 1847, SHE LEFT WITH HER FAMILY IN THE JOHN TAYLOR/EDWARD HUNTER/JACOB FOUTZ/JOHN LOWRY'S COMPANY, ON THE PIONEER TREK WESTWARD. AT JUST 16 YEARS OF AGE, SHE DROVE A SUPPLY WAGON WITH THREE YOKE OF OXEN WHICH SHE YOKED AND UNYOKED MORNING AND EVENING. SHE IS SAID TO HAVE HAD A SPECIAL SKILL IN WORKING WITH OXEN.
MARY WORE A BLUE DENIM DRESS, A SUNBONNET, AND A PAIR OF HIGH BOOTS; SHE DROVE THE OXEN WHILE WALKING BESIDE THEM. THE BOOTS SOON WORE OUT, AND SHE WENT BAREFOOT.
THE COMPANY IN WHICH THE YOUNGS TRAVELED ARRIVED IN THE SL VALLEY 29 SEPTEMBER 1847.
MARY WENT WITH HER FATHER TO CITY CREEK CATO CUT LOGS FOR THEIR CABIN IN SOUTH FORT. SHE MADE THE ADOBES FOR THE CHIMNEY. THEY MOVED INTO THEIR CABIN JUST BEFORE CHRISTMAS. MARY RECALLED, "NO KING COULD BE HAPPIER THAN WE WERE WHEN WE REACHED THE VALLEY AND BUILT OUR FIRST LOG CABIN." IN SALT LAKE VALLEY, JOHN TAYLOR GAVE MARY A BLESSING, IN WHICH HE COMMENDED HER WORK IN CROSSING THE PLAINS. HE PROMISED, "YOU SHALL HAVE A NATION OF YOUR POSTERITY. YOU SHALL BE BLESSED AND LIVE AS LONG AS LIFE IS DESIRABLE TO YOU." ON 14 MARCH 1848, MARY WAS MARRIED TO JOHN HENRY OWEN (JHO) WILCOX BY WILLIAM STEWART SEELY, WHO LATER BECAME FIRST BISHOP OF MR. PLEASANT WARD, UTAH. JHO HAD JOINED THE MORMON CHURCH AT NINE YEARS OF AGE, WITH HIS WIDOWED MOTHER, SARAH SEELAY WILCOX, AND AT LEAST TWO SISTERS IN MARION COUNTY, MISSOURI. THEY HAD BEEN PERSECUTED AND DRIVEN INTO IOWA, ILLINOIS AND BACK INTO MISSOURI.
WHEN LAND WAS DIVIDED AMONG THE SETTLERS, THE YOUNG COUPLE '"DREW" A LOT IN THE SUGARHOUSE AREA, WHICH THEY CLEARED, PLOWED AND PLANTED. THEY BUILT A BRUSH "SHANTY." THAT YEAR, CRICKETS DEVOURED THE NEW WHEAT, AND THE YOUNG COUPLE RETURNED TO OLD FORT TO LIVE WITH JHO'S MOTHER. AFTER HARVEST TIME, MARY WENT EVERY DAY TO GLEAN WHEAT IN THE NORTHERN AREA, WHICH HAD ESCAPED DESTRUCTION BY CRICKETS. BEFORE LEAVING HOME, SHE ATE A HANDFUL OF ROSE LEAVES AND DRANK A GLASS OF MILK.
JHO "GRUBBED" OAK AND SAGEBRUSH FOR A PECK OF CORN A DAY. IN RED BUTTE CANYON HE CUT A LOAD OF POLES, WHICH HE TRADED FOR 40# OF WHEAT. IN 1849, HIS YIELD WAS 70 BUSHELS. FROM FOUR SEED POTATOES, WHICH HAD COST .25 EACH, THEY HARVESTED A PECK OF POTATOES WHICH WAS KEPT FOR SEED, AND THEIR YIELD THE NEXT SEASON WAS 30 BUSHELS.
THEIR FIRST CHILD, HAZARD WILCOX, WAS BORN 15 FEBRUARY 1849, AFTER THE NEW MOTHER HAD GATHERED STRENGTH FROM REST, SHE WAS FED ONLY A SMALL PIECE OF CORNBREAD AND A DRINK MADE FROM BROWNED BRAN.
THE WILCOX FAMILY, AMONG MANY OTHERS, WAS TEMPTED TO GO TO CALIFORNIA TO "PAN" FOR GOLD IN 1849; HOWEVER, THEY HEEDED BRIGHAM YOUNG'S COUNSEL TO STAY IN THE SL VALLEY AND, IN MARY'S WORDS, "WE WERE BLESSED BECAUSE WE WERE NEVER THAT HUNGRY AGAIN."
IN 1850, THEY WERE CALLED TO GO TO MANTI (SANPETE), WHERE ELIZABETH WAS BORN 13 JULY 1851. THEY MOVED TO HAMBLETON (MT. PLEASANT) WHERE JHO WORKED IN A SAWMILL ON PLEASANT CREEK. ON 19 JULY 1853, WHILE HE WAS A LONE AT THE SAWMILL, JHO SAW INDIANS LURKING NEARBY. AFTER THE THIRD "PROMPTING" TO RETURN HOME, HE LEFT HURRIEDLY. THE INDIANS DROVE OFF THE LIVESTOCK, AND THEY BURNED THE SAWMILL, LOGS, AND LUMBER. THE FAMILY WAS LEFT DESTITUTE. YEARS LATER, MRS. FRED G. TAYLOR ASKED MARY HOW SHE FELT WHEN SHE LEARNED OF THE INDIAN RAID. MARY REPLIED, "MY DEAR, WE BOTH KNELT DOWN AND THANKED THE LORD THAT MY HUSBAND'S LIFE WAS SAVED."
THEY MOVED BACK TO FT. MANTI, WHERE THEIR DAUGHTER, SARAH, WAS BORN 1 AUGUST 1853.
THEIR NEXT MOVE WAS TO PLEASANT GROVE, AND THEN TO NORTH OGDEN FOR A TIME, WHERE A SON, JAMES HENRY, WAS BORN 10 NOVEMBER 1855.
THEY RETURNED TO PLEASANT GROVE, WHERE A SON, JOHN CARLOS, WAS BORN 13 MARCH 1858. JHO HAULED A LOAD OF STRAW FROM PLEASANT GROVE TO CAMP FLOYD AND RECEIVED $20.
IN 1860, AFTER HAVING BEEN ON THE MOVE, OR DRIVEN, FROM PLACE TO PLACE FOR MANY YEARS, JHO AND MARY BUILT THEIR FIRST PERMANENT HOME, A ONE-ROOM LOG CABIN ONE BLOCK WEST OF MAIN STREET ON THE BANKS OF NORTH CREEK IN MT. PLEASANT. IT WAS REPLACED YEARS LATER WITH A TWO-STORY ADOBE HOME. THEY WERE THE PROUD POSSESSORS OF TWENTY ACRES OF LAND LOCATED 3 MILES NORTH OF TOWN. HE BUILT A HOME AND FURNITURE FOR THEMSELVES AND OTHERS. MARY AND JHO WERE THE ONLY ORIGINAL SETTLERS WHO RETURNED TO HAMBLETON.
SIX ADDITIONAL CHILDREN WERE BORN TO THEM IN MT. PLEASANT: MARY MEHITABLE, BORN 8 NOVEMBER 1860; CLARISSA JANE, BORN 20 MARCH 1863; SABRA ELLEN, BORN 6 OCTOBER 1865; HANNAH EMELINE, BORN 13 APRIL 1868; MARTHA ANNA, BORN 23 JULY 1871; AND JUSTUS AZEL, BORN I AUGUST 1874.
FROM THE SHEEP THEY RAISED, THE PIONEER WOMEN CARDED AND SPUN THE WOOL AND THEN HAND-STITCHED THE GARMENTS WITH HAND-RAVELLED THREAD. SHOES WERE MADE FROM TOPS OF OLD, WORN-OUT SHOES AND BOOTS. SOME MADE MOCCASINS OF RAWHIDE, AND SOME WENT BAREFOOT--EVEN TO MEETINGS. FROM BUCKSKIN, MARY MADE A PAIR OF MOCCASINS. SHE WOULD CARRY THEM WITH HER STOCKINGS TO WITHIN A BLOCK OF THE CHURCH, AND THEN PUT THEM ON HER FEET. AFTER THE MEETING, SHE WOULD TAKE OFF THE MOCCASINS AND WALK HOME BAREFOOT.
THE WOMEN MADE SHIRTS FOR MEN FROM OLD WAGON COVERS. THEIR CAPS AND HEADWEAR WERE MADE FROM CLOTH LEFT FROM DRESSES. SUMMER HATS WERE MADE FROM STRAW. MEN WHO HAD COATS WHEN THEY CAME ACROSS THE PLAINS HAD TO GO WITHOUT FOR A LONG TIME AFTER THE COATS WERE WORN TO SHREDS. WEARING APPAREL WAS VERY SCARCE.
FOOD WAS ALSO SCARCE. OFTENTIMES, ALL JHO TOOK FOR HIS NOON MEAL WAS A PINCH OF SALT TO SEASON THE GREENS OR SEGOS HE WOULD FIND AND COOK. AFTER A FEW YEARS, SEED FOR SUGAR CANE WAS OBTAINED AND PLANTED; JUICE WAS EXTRACTED AND BOILED DOWN TO MOLASSES (SORGHUM); AND PIONEERS ENJOYED THE FIRST AFFORDABLE SWEETS. FOR A LONG TIME, THEY HAD NO SOAP TO WASH CLOTHES. ONLY AFTER THE SIZE OF THEIR HERDS INCREASAND THEY HAD SOME FAT ANIMALS DID THEY HAVE LARD OR TALLOW FOR SOAP AND CANDLES. THE WICKS WERE SPUN FROM COTTON GROWN IN ST. GEORGE. THEY MADE COTTON CLOTH FROM FIVE POUND BUNDLES OF BULK COTTON.
GEORGE HURST VISITED GRANDMA WILCOX IN FEBRUARY 1916. SHE SHOWED HIM A LOVELY QUILT SHE HAD MADE, SAYING, "1 AM 85 YEARS OLD, AND I WON'T PUT DOWN MY NEEDLE TO ANYONE IN THE STATE OF UTAH." (SHE WAS KNOWN FOR HER QUILTS, AND SHE MADE RAG DOLLS. ALENE B. STEWART OF LAYTON HAS ONE QUILT MARY MADE FOR HER DAUGHTER, SARAH.)
GEORGE ACCOMPANIED HER TO AN "OLD FOLKS' PARTY." AS THEY WERE LEAVING THE BUILDING, GRANDMA WILCOX SAID, "NOW, I'M GOING TO SHOW YOU THE KIND OF STOCK YOU'VE COME FROM." IN GEORGE'S WORDS: "AND THAT OLD SOUL WENT HOPPITY SKIP DOWN THOSE 12 OR 15 STEPS." SHE SAID, "THAT'S THE KIND OF STUFF IN YOU!"
SHE WAS TALL AND HAD BROWN, WAVY HAIR WHEN YOUNG. HER SPEECH WAS EXACTING, BUT MILD, WITH KEEN ARTICULATION. SHE MOVED WITH GRACE AND DIGNITY.
A SPECIAL TRIBUTE TO THIS COURAGEOUS LADY, WRITTEN BY LOFTNER BJARNARSON, WAS PRINTED IN THE DESERET NEWS:

SHE IS A FIGURE FROM THE PAST, THE LAST OF A LITE BAND OF STURDY PIONEERS .... HER WRINKLED BROW AND SUNKEN CHEEKS BEAR EVIDENCE OF YEARS OF TOIL AND STRUGGLE .... SHE ALWAYS HAD A GLAD WORD FOR ALL. HER MANNER IS DIGNIFIED AND MAJESTIC.
THOUGH NOT AWARE OF IT, SHE HAS THE AIR OF ROYALTY .... SHE HAS BEEN A TRUE DAUGHTER OF GOD, AN EMBLEM OF DEVOTION TO RIGHT, RELIGION, AND A LEADER IN THE CAUSE OF HUMAN BROTHERHOOD ....
THOUGH GRANDMA WILCOX NEVER LEARNED TO READ OR WRITE, HER LIFE WAS ONE OF ACTION. SHE DID HER PART IN LAYING THE FOUNDATION OF OUR GREAT COMMONWEALTH .... HER FAITH IN GOD AND HER FELLOWMAN [WAS] UNSHAKEN BY TRIALS AND HARDSHIPS SHE ENDURED.

IT IS KNOWN THAT MARY WAS A MIDWIFE AND DELIVERED MORE THAN THREE HUNDRED BABIES.
WE LEARN FROM MRS. FRED G. TAYLOR THAT MARY HAD A FIRM TESTIMONY THAT JOSEPH SMITH WAS A PROPHET OF GOD. MARY SAID, "IT WAS A WONDERFUL BLESSING TO LIVE IN THE TIME OF THE PROPHET JOSEPH. THE SAINTS FELT THE GREATNESS OF THE PROPHET, AND WHEN HE SAID, 'THUS SAITH THE LORD,' THEY COULD NOT DOUBT HIS WORDS AND KNEW THAT HE HAD HAD REVELATION FROM HIS HEAVENLY FATHER."
"COME, COME YE SAINTS" WAS MARY'S FAVORITE HYMN.
MARY AND JHO CELEBRATED THEIR 60TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY IN MARCH 1908, WITH NINE OF THEIR ELEVEN CHILDREN PRESENT. ELIZABETH HURST WAS LIV-ING IN MEXICO; AND THEIR SON, JUSTUS AZEL, LIVED IN CANADA.
JHO WAS ACTIVE IN HIS LATER YEARS. HE PASSED AWAY 21 NOVEMBER 1909; HE WAS ALMOST 86. HIS OBITUARY STATED THAT HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE NAUVOO LEGION; THAT HE HEARD THE PROPHET JOSEPH SMITH'S LAST SERMON AND WAS PRESENT WHEN THE MANTLE FELL ON BRIGHAM YOUNG; AND THAT HE WAS A FAITHFUL MEMBER OF THE CHURCH.
MARY WAS THE OLDEST MEMBER OF A LIVING SIX-GENERATION FAMILY: MARY YOUNG WILCOX; DAUGHTER, ELIZABETH WILCOX HURST; ALICE LUELLA HURST NIELSON; KATE ALICE NIELSON GUYMON; ALICE LOVERN GUYMON THAYNE; AND BONNIE GERTRUDE THAYNE.
JUST THREE WEEKS BEFORE HER 98TH BIRTHDAY, MARY PASSED AWAY MAY 16, 1929. AT THAT TIME, HER POSTERITY NUMBERED NEARLY SIX HUNDRED. THERE ARE, OR HAVE BEEN, IN THIS FAMILY OUTSTANDING MEN AND WOMEN IN ALMOST EVERY OCCUPAAND PROFESSION, INCLUDING ARTISTS, AND THEY HAVE FILLED NUMEROUS CHURCH POSITIONS FROM PATRIARCHS AND STAKE PRESIDENTS, A MISSION PRESIDENTS, TO NUMEROUS TEACHERS.
THE AUTHOR SEES THE INFLUENCE OF JHO AND MARY YOUNG WILCOX ON THEIR POSTERITY. I AM GRATEFUL FOR THEIR LIVES AND GLAD THAT I COULD PAY MY RESPECTS AND HONOR TO THEM IN THIS MANNER. I KNOW THERE IS MUCH MORE THAT SHOULD BE TOLD. BY RUBY HURST MORGAN, 1988

PARTS OF MARY'S STORY WERE TOLD BY HER ON JANUARY 27, 1924, AND TIMES THEREAFTER UNTIL JUNE 6, 1925, TO ANNIE CARLSTON BILLS, A GRANDSON'S WIFE. MRS. BILLS THEN WROTE THE STORY, AND IT HAS BEEN PRESERVED AMONG FAMILY MEMBERS. MARY DIED ABOUT 3 YEARS LATER. OTHER SOURCES ARE:

ALENE BILLS STEWART, DAUGHTER OF ANNIE C. BILLS.
JAMES LEROY KIMBALL JR., HISTORIAN AND CONIN THE CHURCH HISTORY OFFICES.
JOURNAL HISTORY (FILM #1,259, 735) 21 JUNE 1847.
BACKMAN, MILTON V., THE HEAVENS RESOUND, A HISTORY OF THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS
IN OHIO 1830-1838, DESERET BOOK, 1983.
HUNTER, MILTON R., BRIGHAM YOUNG, THE COLONIZER PEREGRINE SMITH.
BJARNSON, LOFTER, OVER DESERT TRAILS, ARTICLE IN DESERET .NEWS.
PRATT, PARLEY P., AUTOBIOGRAPHY, EDITED BY HIS SON, PARLEY PARKER PRATT, JR.
J. OWEN MEILING, A HISTORY OF JOHN HENRY OWEN WILCOX, GIVEN 1939, FLAT
CANYON.
HUGH HURST, A HISTORY OF MARY Y. WILCOX, GIVEN 1964.
WILCOX, EDGAR, (BRIEF) HISTORY OF EDWARD WILCOX I.
HURST, GEORGE ARTHUR JR., AN INTERVIEW OF HIS VISIT TO GRANDMA WILCOX, FEB.
19 OR 20, 1916.
DAUGHTERS OF UTAH PIONEERS HISTORIES SUBMITTED BY A. SARAH WILCOX BILLS B.
BLANCHE NIELSEN C. MARY NELSON SHAFFER D. MRS. FRED G. TAYLOR E. ELIZABETH
WILCOX HURST

SPECIAL THANKS TO HOLLIS W. ALLGOOD AND BELLE HARRIS WILSON. ALSO, CLAY I. PETERSON, LLOYD PETERSON, DEAN STAKER, GLORIA FOSTER, AND OLIVE WILCOX WOOLEN. OBITUARIES FROM THE DESERET NEWS AND THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE.
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WIGGINS, MARVIN E. MORMONS AND THEIR NEIGHBORS
WILCOX, MARY YOUNG 6 JUN 1831 -
HISTORY OF SANPETE AND EMERY COUNTIES, UTAH, WITH SKETCHES OF CITIES, TOWN, AND VILLAGES, CHRONOLOGY OF IMPORTANT EVENTS, RECORDS OF INDIAN WARS, PORTRAITS OF PROMINENT PERSONS AND BIOGRAPHIES OF REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS. [OGDEN, UTAH: W. H. LEVER, 1898.] P.278
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2726. WILLCOX, MARY YOUNG, 1831?
AUTOBIOGRAPHY (1831?C.1848)

DAVIS BITTON, GUIDE TO MORMON DIARIES AND AUTOBIOGRAPHIES (1977), PG.383
AUTOBIOGRAPHY (1831?C.1848)
HOLOGRAPH. 55 PP. 15.9 CM. HDC [LDS CHURCH ARCHIVES] (MS D 2050, 8, 11)

DAVIS BITTON, GUIDE TO MORMON DIARIES AND AUTOBIOGRAPHIES (1977), PG.383
WRITTEN IN 1925. BORN IN WHITBERRY TOWNSHIP, UPPER CANADA, 1831. FAMILY CONVERTED TO LDS CHURCH BY PARLEY P. PRATT, 1837. TO MISSOURI, 1838. MORMONS RUN OUT OF MISSOURI. TO UTAH, C. 1848. WOULD APPEAR THAT THIS IS A SORT OF "ORAL HISTORY," INCLUDING A FEW QUESTIONS BY THE INTERVIEWER, A BROTHER ANDERSON?APPARENTLY GEORGE EDWARD ANDERSON, THE PROMINENT PHOTOGRAPHER. BOOKLET INCLUDES INTERVIEWER'S NOTES ON CONVERSATIONS WITH OTHER ELDERLY LADIES IN SPANISH FORK, 1925. MRS. WILLCOX RAMBLES AND DOESN'T PAY MUCH ATTENTION TO CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER.SUS 1851 STATE OF UTAH, 1860, 1870, AND 1880

Notes:

!ABRAHAM DAY WAS MARRIED TO (1) ELMIRA BUCKLEY (2) CHAROLOTTE BROOMHEAD MELLON (3) SARAH JARVIS.
! SOURCES THREE GENERATION FILE GROUP SHEET SUBMITTED BY JUNIUS DAY CASTLE DALE UTAH.

OCCUPATION FARMER, MILLWRIGHT LUMBERMAN AND CARPENTER ALSO SERVED AS THE MAYOR OF SPRINGVILLE UTAH FOR A TIME.

!CENSUS US CENSUS 1860 AND 1870 AND 1880

ABRAHAM married CHARLOTTE KATHERINE MELLAND on 30 Nov 1838 in SALTLAKE CITY, UATH. CHARLOTTE (daughter of STEPHEN MELLAND, SQ and ANN BROOMHEAD) was born on 25 Dec 1832 in KILLAMARSH DERBY, ENGLAND; died on 26 Sep 1872 in MT PLEASANT, UTAH. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

TIMELINE OF HAZARD WILLCOX

25 DEC 1775 HAZARD WILLCOX, JR.' S BIRTH AT WALLUMSCOCK, ALBANY, NEW YORK.
1777 HAZARD WILLCOX, SR. FLED WITH FAMILY TO CANADA AFTER LOSING HIS PROPERTY IN THE BATTLE OF BENNINGTON.
02 MAR 1779 HAZARD WILLCOX, SR.'S DEATH. (HAZARD WILCOX, JR. 3 YEARS OLD).
1779 EUNICE SABRA WATSON DIED. (HAZARD WILCOX, JR. 3 YEARS OLD).
14 OCT 1801 HAZARD WILLCOX, JR.'S MARRIAGE TO SARAH SEELEY IN OSWEGATCHIE, ONTARIO, CANADA.
27 DEC 1810 SABRA WILCOX PURDY'S PETITION LISTED HAZARD WILCOX, JR. AS "OF LOUGHBOROUGH".
14 MAY 1793 HAZARD JR. AND WILLIAM WILLCOX BOTH PETITION FOR 800 ACRES IN GRANVILLE, UPPER CANADA.
16 OCT 1802 FIRST CHILD MARY WILLCOX BORN IN ERNESTOWN, UPPER CANADA.
10 AUG 1804 SECOND CHILD SARAH SEELEY WILLCOX BORN IN ERNESTOWN, UPPER CANADA.
07 JAN 1806 THIRD CHILD WILLIAM AUGUSTUS WILLCOX BORN IN ERNESTOWN, UPPER CANADA.
08 MAR 1808 HAZARD JR. WROTE TO THE BOARD LISTED AS "U. E. LOYALIST OF LOUGHBOROUGH".
19 MAY 1808 FORTH CHILD EUNICE SEELEY WILLCOX BORN IN ERNESTOWN, UPPER CANADA.
16 JUN 1810 FIFTH CHILD SABRAH WILLCOX BORN IN ERNESTOWN, UPPER CANADA.
30 JUN 1811 SARAH SEELEY WILLCOX LISTED AS "WIFE OF HAZARD WILLCOX OF LOUGHBOROUGH" IN HER PETITION.
26 JAN 1813 SIXTH CHILD JONATHAN HAZARD WILLCOX BORN IN MARION COUNTY, MISSOURI.
01 DEC 1815 SEVENTH AND EIGHTH CHILDREN JAMES M. AND JOSEPH S. WILLCOX BIRTHS IN MARION COUNTY, MISSOURI
16 OCT 1816 HAZARD JR. GRANTED 200 ACRES IN CARTWRIGHT TOWNSHIP, DURHAM COUNTY, CON. 9, LOT 24.
20 APR 1817 NINTH CHILD STEVEN ENOS WILLCOX BORN IN MARION COUNTY, MISSOURI.
01 OCT 1821 TENTH AND ELEVENTH CHILDREN CLARISSA JANE AND LEMUEL NIXON WILLCOX BIRTHS IN CARMI, WHITE, ILLINOIS.
14 JAN 1824 TWELFTH CHILD JOHN HENRY OWEN WILLCOX BORN IN BENTON, SALINE, ARKANSAS.
ABT 1828 THIRTEENTH AND FOURTEENTH CHILD JAMES AND HAZARD WILLCOX BIRTHS.
16 FEB 1831 HAZARD WILLCOX, JR.'S DIED IN MARION, WILLIAMSON, MISSOURI.


TIMELINE OF JOHN HENRY OWEN WILLCOX

14 JAN 1824 JOHN HENRY OWEN WILLCOX BORN IN BENTON, SALINE, ARKANSAS.
ABT 1828 JAMES AND HAZARD WILLCOX BIRTHS.
16 FEB 1831 HAZARD WILLCOX, JR.'S DIED IN MARION, WILLIAMSON, MISSOURI. (JHO 7 YEARS OLD).
1833 CLARISSA JANE'S HISTORY STATES THEY WERE IN JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI.
NOV 1833 CLARISSA JANE'S HISTORY STATES THEY WERE DRIVEN OUT TO CLAY COUNTY, MISSOURI.
SUMMER 1836 CLARISSA JANE'S HISTORY STATES THEY WERE ASKED TO LEAVE CLAY COUNTY AND THEY MOVED TO RAY COUNTY, MISSOURI AND STAYED ABOUT A YEAR.
1837 CLARISSA JANE'S HISTORY STATES THEY THEN MOVED TO FAR WEST, MISSOURI.
? CLARISSA JANE'S HISTORY STATES THEY MOVED TO QUINCY, ILLINOIS AND THEY STAYED THERE UNTIL SPRING OF 1839.
1838 JHO BAPTIZED BY JOSEPH SMITH, JR. (JHO 14 YEARS OLD)
SPRING 1839 CLARISSA JANE'S HISTORY STATES THEY MOVED TO CHARLESTON, LEE COUNTY, IOWA.
1841 CLARISSA JANE'S HISTORY STATES SEELYE FAMILY FIRST MOVED TO NASHVILLE, MISSOURI.
03 FEB 1846 JHO ENDOWMENT AT THE NAUVOO TEMPLE.
29 SEP 1847 ARRIVED IN SALT LAKE VALLEY.
18 MAR 1848 JHO MARRIAGE TO MARY YOUNG IN SALT LAKE CITY, SALT LAKE, UTAH.
1848-1849 DREW A LOT IN THE SUGARHOUSE AREA. CLEARED, PLOWED, AND PLANTED. LIVED IN A BRUSH "SHANTY". CRICKETS DEVOURED THE NEW WHEAT. MOVED BACK TO OLD FORT TO LIVE WITH HIS MOTHER.
15 FEB 1849 FIRST CHILD HAZARD WILCOX WAS BORN IN SALT LAKE CITY.
1849 CALLED TO GO TO MANTI, SANPETE, UTAH.
13 JUL 1851 SECOND CHILD ELIZABETH WILCOX BORN IN MANTI.

1851 ONE OF 6 FAMILIES SENT TO ESTABLISH FORT HAMBLETON (MT. PLEASANT). WORK IN A SAWMILL ON PLEASANT CREEK.
SPRING 1853 DRIVEN OUT OF FORT HAMBLETON BY INDIANS. MOVED BACK TO MANTI.
1 AUG 1853 THIRD CHILD SARAH WILCOX BORN IN MANTI.
1854 MOVED TO PLEASANT GROVE
1855 BRIGHAM YOUNG SENT THEM TO NORTH OGDEN. STAYED ONLY ONE WINTER (TOO COLD).
10 NOV 1855 FOURTH CHILD JAMES HENRY WILCOX BORN IN NORTH ODGEN.
1856 BRIGHAM YOUNG SENT THEM BACK TO PLEASANT GROVE. STAYED FOR 4 YEARS.
17 JUN 1856 JHO SEALED TO WIFE MARY YOUNG IN THE ENDOWMENT HOUSE.
13 MAR 1858 FIFTH CHILD JOHN CARLOS WILCOX BORN IN PLEASANT GROVE.
1859/1860 BRIGHAM YOUNG SENT THEM TO MT. PLEASANT.
08 NOV 1860 SIXTH CHILD MARY MEHITTABIL WILCOX BORN IN MT. PLEASANT.
20 MAR 1863 SEVENTH CHILD CLARISSA JANE WILCOX BORN IN MT. PLEASANT.
06 OCT 1865 EIGHTH CHILD SABRA ELLEN WILCOX BORN IN MT. PLEASANT.
13 APR 1868 NINTH CHILD HANNAH EMELINE WILCOX BORN IN MT. PLEASANT.
23 JUL 1871 TENTH CHILD MARTHA ANN WILCOX BORN IN MT. PLEASANT.
01 AUG 1874 ELEVENTH CHILD JUSTIN AZEL WILCOX BORN IN MT. PLEASANT.
06 JUL 1909 JHO NAME LISTED ON PIONEER MONUMENT IN MT. PLEASANT.
21 NOV 1909 JHO DIES IN MT. PLEASANT.

HAZARD married SARAH SEELEY on 14 Oct 1801. SARAH (daughter of AUGUSTUS SEELEY and MARY (SARAH) BRISBIN (BRISBANE)) was born on 16 Nov 1780 in ALBANY, ALBANY, NY; was christened on 17 Dec 1780 in ALBANY, ALBANY, NEW YORK; died on 9 Nov 1856 in MANTI, SANPETE, UT; was buried in Nov 1856 in MANTI, SANPETE, UTAH. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

!CENSUS 1851AUGUSTUS SEELEY TIME LINE

BORN IN NEW ENGLAND

9 APR 1760 JOINED THE NEW YORK PROVINCIAL TROOPS IN QUEEN?S COUNTY NEW YORK DURING THE FRENCH AND INDIAN SEVEN YEARS WAR. LISTED HIS OCCUPATION AS A HATTER. HIS SON JOSEPH LATER STATED THAT HIS FATHER HAD SERVED UNDER JEFFERY AMHERST DURING THE SEVEN YEARS WAR AND IN THE CORPS OF CAPT. JAMES CAMPBELL DURING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. ?AUGUSTUS WAS ON THE UNITED LOYALIST LIST FOR LANCASTER TWSP IN UPPER CANADA AND WAS CALLED GUSTUS.? ROBERT SEELEY, OTTAWA, CANADA.

1760/1 MET AND MARRIED MARY BRISBIN WHO WAS BORN IN IRELAND.

2 JUNE 1761 MUSTERED IN NEW YORK PROVINCIAL TROOPS IN ALBANY COUNTY NEW YORK.

FIRST CHILD, MARGARET BORN IN ALBANY CO. IN 1801 LISTED IN THE ELIZABETHTOWN CENSUS AS MARGARET WICKWIRE WITH LABRORIS AND FOUR CHILDREN: PHILIP, MARY, LABRORIS JR AND JANE. IN 1804 CENSUS LABRORIS WAS MISSING.

LISTED IN LOYALISTS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AS LIVING IN SARATOGA

CARRIE BORN IN ALBANY CO. THERE IS NO EVIDENCE CARRIE CAME TO CANADA. NOTHING MORE IS KNOWN ABOUT HER.


JAMES BORN IN ALBANY CO. LISTED IN 1801 CENSUS AS SPOUSE OF ELIZABETH (MANHARD) WITH 4 CHILDREN: DAVID, MARY, JANE & ROBERT. JAMES SERVED WITH AUGUSTUS DURING REVOLUTIONARY WAR. AT AGE 16 HE ENLISTED AS A PRIVATE IN ROGERS CORP, IN HIS FATHERS OLD UNIT. (AUGUSTUS WOULD HAVE BECOME ACQUAINTED WITH COL. ROGERS DURING THE FRENCH & INDIAN WAR). RECEIVED LAND IN LANCASTER ALONG WITH SIR JOHNSON AND HIS SCOTS. HOWEVER HE SETTLED IN ELIZABETHTOWN. MRD 1ST ELIZABETH MANHARD - CHILDREN: DAVID, MARY, ELIZABETH, JAMES JR, JANE, LEWIS, MRD 2ND MARY POLLY - CHILDREN: MARGRETT, JOSEPH, PHILIP, AUGUSTUS, ANNA & PEET. SERVED IN WAR OF 1812 IN THE MILITIA, WAS TAKEN PRISONER AT THE BATTLE OF LUNDY?S LANE, DECLARED HE WAS A CRIPPLE BECAUSE OF SEVERE COLD CAUGHT WHILE ON HIS ESCAPE FROM THE U.S.

RUTH BORN IN ALBANY CO. IN 1801 CENSUS LISTED AS SPOUSE OF SAM JUDSON WITH THREE CHILDREN: LEWIS, SAMUEL & ABIGAIL. BY 1807 THERE WERE OTHER CHILDREN SILUS, LABEUS, ANNA & REBECCA.

JANE BORN IN ALBANY CO. 1801 CENSUS LISTED JOHN & JANE ELLIOTT WITH JOHN JR. BY 1807 THERE WERE THREE MORE CHILDREN: JANE, SARAH AND CLARINDA.

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20 OCT 1774 MARY BAPTIZED IN SCHAGHTICOKE PROTESTANT DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH. IN 1801 CENSUS SHE IS LISTED AS SPOUSE OF JOSEPH FAULKNER FOUR CHILDREN. INTERESTINGLY, THE CHILDREN'S NAMES WERE ELEANOR, WILLIAM, AUGUSTUS AND MARY - HIS PARENTS/HER PARENTS.


5 FEB 1776 ELIZABETH BAPTIZED IN SCHAGHTICOKE PROTESTANT DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH. MARRIED SAMUEL NICHOL.

14 SEP 1777 WHILE LIVING AT OLD SARATOGA AUGUSTUS AND SON JAMES WERE HIRED ALONG WITH SEVERAL OTHER LOYALISTS TO HERD GENERAL BURGOYNE?S CATTLE AT THE BATTLE OF SARATOGA.

16 OCT 1777 GEN. BURGOYNE, REALIZING THE LOYALIST TROOPS WERE SURROUNDED AND ADVISED THEM TO ESCAPE AS HE WAS GOING TO SURRENDER THE NEXT DAY. MANY DID ESCAPE BUT AUGUSTUS & JAMES DECIDED TO STAY AS MARY AND THE GIRLS WERE TOO YOUNG OR WEAK FOR THE HAZARDOUS TRIP NORTH. AUGUSTUS & JAMES WERE CONFINED TO A CAMP BUT ESCAPED AFTER TWO WEEKS.

AUGUSTUS, ALONG WITH SEVERAL OTHERS PETITIONED THE CROWN FOR LAND IN LANCASTER, GLANGARRY, UPPER CANADA. IT IS LIKELY THE GROUP HAD KNOWN EACH OTHER DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. BESIDES AUGUSTUS AND JAMES THE LIST INCLUDED JAMES YOUNG, THOMAS BAIN ROSS, JACOB SNYDER AND JOHN SNYDER.

14 APR 1779 ANNIE BAPTIZED IN SCHAGHTICOKE PROTESTANT DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH. PROBABLY BORN IN SARATOGA. LISTED IN 1802 CENSUS WITH SPOUSE DAVID LAKEN.

16 NOV 1780 SARAH BORN IN ALBANY CO. THERE IS NO EVIDENCE THAT AUGUSTUS LIVED IN SCHAGHTICOKE SO IT MAY BE ASSUMED ALL OF THE CHILDREN WERE BORN IN SARATOGA. IN 1801 CENSUS SHE AND JOSEPH WERE LIVING WITH AUGUSTUS AND MARY. SHE WAS MISSING FROM 1802 CENSUS WHICH ESTABLISHES MARRIAGE DATE TO HAZARD WILCOX JR WAS 1801 OR 1802.

21 MAY 1783 JOSEPH BAPTIZED IN SCHAGHTICOKE PROTESTANT DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH. GRANTED LAND NEAR LAKE GANANOQUI. HE LIVED AT HOME WITH AUGUSTUS AND MARY UNTIL 1807 WHEN HE WAS LISTED IN CENSUS LIVING WITH SISTER ANNY, HER HUSBAND DAVID LAKINS AND THEIR 2 CHILDREN.
DURING THE WAR OF 1812 HE WOULD BE TRIED FOR DESERTION & TREASON. HE TALKED HIS WAY OUT OF THE CHARGE BY TELLING OF HIS FATHER?S HIGH VALUES ON LOYALTY. HE SAID THAT NO MEMBER OF THE FAMILY WOULD EVEN THINK OF ANYTHING BUT LOYALTY TO THE CROWN. HE STATED THAT HIS LOYALTY WAS INSTINCTIVE, INSPIRED BY THE ATTACHMENT OF FAMILY. HE RECEIVED A CONDITIONAL PARDON MILITARY C SERIES: C166 P 53 APR 1814, LETTER LT. GEN DRUMMOND TO N. FLEET. SEE ALSO " MCMILLAN DICTIONARY OF CANADIAN BIOGRAPHIES BY S. STEWART WALLACE.


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14 JUN 1784 SARAH BAPTIZED IN SCHAGHTICOKE PROTESTANT DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH.


AUGUSTIN LISTED IN THE ELIZABETHTOWN CENSUS. OTHER SELEE (SIC) HEADS OF FAMILIES WERE JUSTUS AND PEET. ALSO LISTED WAS WICKWIRE (MARGARET) & FALKNER (MARY).

1 SEP 1797 AUGUSTUS RECEIVED HIS 3 LOTS IN LANCASTER.

AUGUSTUS, MARY, JOSEPH AND SARAH LISTED IN ELIZABETHTOWN CENSUS. OTHER SELEE HEADS OF FAMILIES INCLUDED JOSEPH, JUSTUS AND JARED.

16 JULY 1804 AUGUSTUS SOLD LOT 20 IN LANCASTER TO JACOB SNYDER AND LOT 21 TO JOSEF SNYDER.

16 APR 1807 AUGUSTUS SON JAMES SOLD LOT 25 IN LANCASTER TO JOHN MCLENNAN.

1804 CENSUS LISTED ?FAM NO? 272, MARY SELEE AND JOSEPH SELEE.

1808 ELIZABETHTOWN HEAD OF HOUSE CENSUS LISTED MRS SEELY LIVING ALONE NEAR JOSEPH SEELY, JOSEPH FALKNER, AND DAVID LAKEN,

AUGUSTUS DIED IN ELIZABETHTOWN, UPPER CANADA.

OCT 1873 PROXY BAPTISM BY JOHN HENRY WILCOX. ENDOWMENT HOUSE, (GS SER. NO. 183385), BOOK D, PG. 377, #17314.




















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APRIL 2001
STATE OF UTAH

!HISTORY

SARAH ?SEELEY? WILCOX
BORN 16 NOVEMBER 1780
DIED 9 OCTOBER 1856

?RELIC OF HASSARD WILCOX?

BY
ALBERT ANTRELL

CORRECTIONS BY KARL L. WEILER AS NOTED
A THIRD GREAT GRANDSON



NOTES FOR SARAH SEALEY

1 JAN 1980 PAGE1

BIRTH-BUR-DEATH: AFN:1CTF-X0; MANTI CEMETERY RECORDS; FAMILY HISTORY OF SARAH? THE LIFE OF A PIONEER WOMAN FROM HER 21ST TO 76 TH YEARS, BY
ALBERT ANTREL.

HISTORY: THE FOLLOWING IS THE HISTORY OF SARAH BY ALBERT ANTREL.


IT IS NOTHING IN NEW ENGLAND OR ANY OTHER PART OF THE ORIGINAL 13 COLONIES TO FIND CHURCHYARD HEADSTONES DATING BACK TO THE 18TH CENTURY. BUT THEY ARE CONSIDERABLE LESS ABUNDANT IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN AND GREAT BASIN WEST, NEITHER OF WHICH WAS VERY SETTLED BEFORE THE 1840?S AND 1850?S (THE 19TH CENTURY).

THIS WAS ONE OF THE REASONS THAT I FOUND THE MARKER OF SARAH WILCOX SO REMARKABLE IN THE CEMETERY AT MANTI, SANPETE, UTAH. SARAH?S GRAVE LOOKS COMMON ENOUGH AMONG ALL THE REST OF THE PIONEERS. NOTHING TO BE EXCITED ABOUT; A SIMPLE COLITE STONE, PEELING BADLY IN LAYERS AFTER 124 YEARS. (NOTE KW1: IN 2001 THE STONE IS GONE AND A SMALL FLAT MARKED STONE HAS REPLACED IT.) SARAH DIED ON OCTOBER 9, 1856. THE STONE READ; SARAH WILCOX, RELIC OF HASSARD WILCOX, BORN NOVEMBER 16, 1780, DIED OCTOBER 9, 1856.

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SHE WAS 76 YEARS OF AGE AT HER DEATH. NOTHING SO UNUSUAL THERE EITHER, EXCEPT THAT IN HER DAY, AVERAGE LIFE EXPECTANCY WAS PROBABLY 40 YEARS LESS. BUT THERE WAS SOMETHING ABOUT SARAH THAT REACHED BEYOND THE COMMON, THE ORDINARY. GEOGRAPHY AND A PARADE OF MEN AND EVENTS OF 1780 BEGAN CROWDING AROUND HER GRAVESTONE.

INEVITABLY, SARAH WILL BE 200 YEARS OLD ON NOVEMBER 16, 1980, AND POSSIBLY THIS MAKES HER THE OLDEST WHITE RESIDENT OF UTAH, ALIVE OR DEAD! BUT THERE WAS MORE TO IT THAN A LOCAL RECORD.

IN THE YEAR OF HER BIRTH, 1780 THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION WERE MUDDLING ALONG, TRYING TO GOVERN 13 UNRULY, JEALOUS ATURE 34 YEARS OF AGE WHEN THE TREATY OF GHENT ENDED THE WAR OF 1812 ON CHRISTMAS EVE 1814.

THERE IS A LITTLE CONFUSION IN THE RECORDS WHERE SHE WAS BORN, WHETHER IN EXTER, RHODE ISLAND OR IN ALBANY, NEW YORK. WHICHEVER IS TRUE, SARAH?S FEET FIRST PLODDED WESTWARD THROUGH THE MOHAWK VALLEY IN 1801, HAVING MARRIED HAZARD WILCOX JR. IN ALBANY. IN THE MOHAWK VALLEY IN 1801, THERE WERE STILL SOME ECHOES OUT OF THE REVOLUTION AND EVEN A FEW OUT OF THE EARLIER FRENCH AND INDIAN FRACAS OF HER FATHER?S DAY.

LYING BESIDE SARAH IN FAR-OFF UTAH IS HER OLDEST DAUGHTER AND FIRST-BORN, MARY WILCOX LOWRY. MARY WAS BORN IN ?OSSEWAGOTCHA?, (SAYS THE INSCRIPTION ON HER STONE) COUNTY IN ?UPPER CANADA? IN 1802. OBVIOUSLY, SARAH AND HAZARD HAD EMIGRATED TO CANADA THROUGH THE MOHAWK VALLEY TO THE NIGRA RIVER AND INTO WHAT IS NOW SOUTH-EASTERN ONTARIO.

ALBANY IS SOUNDLY LOCATED GEOGRAPHICALLY AT THE CONFLUENCE OF THE MOHAWK AND HUDSON VALLEYS, AND IN 1801 IT?S 3000 PERMANENT RESIDENTS PROBLY STILL SAW OCCASIONAL CHARACTERS IN? LEATHERSTOCKINGS?. UP THE MOHAWK LAY THE IROQUOIS CONFEDERATION AND ENGLISH CANADA. MUST THERE BE ANY QUESTION THAT IN 1801 SARAH AND THE MOHAWK AND THE SENECA, THE ONADAGA THE HURONS ON HER MIND? ONE MAY WELL WONDER WHETHER EVEN THE NAME TECUMSEH WAS NOT KNOWN TO HER.

IN THE CASE OF SARAH AND HAZARD, THEY WERE LOOKING FORWARD TO A GRANT OF LAND IN CANADA, GIVEN TO THEM BY THE BRITISH FOR SERVICES RENDERED TO THE CROWN BY HAZARD?S FATHER, HAZARD WILCOX SR. (NOTEKW2: COPIES OF THIS LAND GRANT IS ENCLOSED). THE SENIOR WILCOX WAS A CAPTAIN IN BRITISH-AMERICAN LOYALIST MILITIA, AND HE WAS KILLED IN THE BATTLE AT WHITE PLAINS, NEW YORK IN 1776, WHILE IN PURSUIT OF THE REBEL GENERALS, WASHINGTON AND MCDOUGAL. HAZARD SR. IN OTHER WORDS WAS A ?TORY?, AND NOT ONLY A ?REDCOAT?, BUT A CAPTAIN OF ?LOBSTERNECKS?. (NOTEKW3: THIS IS
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DOCUMENTED IN THE BOOK NT WHEN HIS FATHER DIED IN BATTLE FOR THE CROWN, AND HE NEVER KNEW HIM. HAZARD, JR., WAS A FARMER, AND LIKE MANY FARMERS IN THE 13 STATES, HE WANTED GOOD , NEW LAND TO START HIS MARRIED LIFE ON, A DESIRE TO BE REALIZED IN UPPER CANADA, THANKS TO GREAT BRITAIN.

SARAH BORE FIVE CHILDREN IN UPPER CANADA, HER FIRST-BORN BEING MARY, AND ALL FIVE WERE BORN IN ERNESTTOWN, OSSEWEGATCHIE COUNTY. THE WILCOX?S REMAINED FRONTIER CANADIANS FOR 10 YEARS, BUT ON THE BRINK OF THE WAR OF 1812, HAZARD WILCOX MADE A DECISION. HE REMOVED HIS FAMILY BACK INTO AMERICAN TERRITORY AND EMIGRATED FARTHER WEST TO MARION COUNTY, MISSOURI. FOUR MORE CHILDREN WERE BORN THERE. IN 1820, FOR VAGUER REASONS, HAZARD AND HIS FAMILY MOVED AGAIN THIS TIME TO CARMI, WHITE COUNTY, ILLINOIS. A SET OF TWINS HAD BEEN BORN AND DIED IN MISSOURI, AND A SECOND SET WAS BORN IN CARMI, OF WHICH ONE DIED AT BIRTH. SHORTLY THEREAFTER THE WILCOX?S MOVED ONCE MORE. THIS TIME TO BENTON, SALINE COUNTY, ARKANSAS. HERE IN 1824, HAZARD DIED AT THE AGE OF 49, LEAVING SARAH WITH FIVE CHILDREN SHE HAD BORNE HIM IN ALL (KW4: PROBATE WILL SHOWS HAZARD DIED IN 1831) SARAH GAVE BIRTH TO HER LAST CHILD, JOHN HENRY OWEN WILCOX, AND SHE SAW HER FIRST-BORN, MARY, MARRIED TO A KENTUCKIAN, JOHN LOWRY, SR. ONE OTHER DAUGHTER, HER NAMESAKE, SARAH, HAD ALSO MARRIED, LEAVING HER WITH SABRA, AGE 14, AND TWO SMALLER CHILDREN, THE ONE A CHILD OF THREE NAMED CLARISSA JANE, AND THE OTHER THE RECENTLY-BORN BABY, JOHN HENRY OWEN.

SARAH WAS ESPECIALLY CLOSE TO HER DAUGHTER, MARY WILCOX LOWRY, AND WHEN MARY AND JOHN LOWRY JOINED THE MORMON CHURCH IN 1833, THERE IS NO CLEAR RECORD OF ANY OBJECTION ON SARAH?S PART. IN FACT, IN TIME THE TWO YOUNGEST OF SARAH?S CHILDREN WERE ALSO BAPTIZED INTO THAT DENOMINATION. AS FOR SARAH IN 1833 SHE WAS 53 YEARS OLD, BOTH BAPTIZABLE AND MARRIAGEABLE AS A WIDOW, BUT SHE SHOWED NO INCLINATION FOR EITHER. (KW5: NAUVOO TEMPLE RECORDS SHOW SARAH COMPLETED HER ENDOWMENTS. I BELIEVE SARAH JOINED THE CHURCH WITH HER CHILDREN.)

WHETHER BEFORE 1847 SHE HAD JOINED THAT CHURCH OR NOT, HOWEVER, SARAH WENT ALONG WITH THE LOWRYS ON THEIR LONG TREK TO UTAH. SHE WOULD BEEN 67 YEARS OLD ON HER LAST WESTWARD MOVE.
SOMETIME AROUND 1850 WHEN SARAH WAS ABOUT 70 SHE ARRIVED IN THE SANPETE VALLEY OF CENTRAL UTAH TO BE WITH MARY W. LOWRY. HER SON WAS MARRIED IN 1848 IN SALT LAKE CITY. IT IS LIKELY THAT HE AND HIS WIFE ACCOMPANIED SARAH TO THE? SANPETE FORT? (MANTI), BUT DID NOT REMAIN THERE. THOSE ARE THE ?BARE FACTS?. THEY ARE RECORDED OR SURMISED FROM GENERAL HISTORIC BACKGROUND.

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NOT MUCH IS KNOWN ABOUT SARAH PERSONALLY; ABOUT HER APPEARANCE, HER PERSONALITY OR HER TEMPERAMENT WE KNOW NOTHING. THERE ARE GROUNDS, HOWEVER, TO ASSUME HONESTLY THAT SHE WAS AT LEAST STRONG, HEALTHY AND PATIENT. A FEW VITAL FACTS ALSO KNOWN FROM RECORDS, CAN BE ADDED.

HER FATHER?S NAME WAS AUGUSTUS SEELEY, OR ZIEGLY, AND ALTHOUGH FROM EXETER, RHODE ISLAND HIMSELF, HE SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN OF GERMAN EXTRACTION. HER MOTHER WAS MARY BRISKIN, OF BRITISH DESCENT. ACCORDING TO THE CRUMBLING INSCRIPTION ON HER GRAVESTONE, SARAH WAS THE DIED OF ?PARALYSIS?, AND THAT IN HER LAST MOMENTS SHE WAS ATTENDED BY HER DAUGHTER, MARY WILCOX LOWRY. THE NAME OF ?JOSEPH WILCOX? HAS SOMEHOW, MYSTERIOUSLY, MADE IT INTO THE MANTI CEMETERY RECORD WITH NO OTHER INFORMATION OTHER THAN A BURIAL PILOT NUMBER(UNIDENTIFIED BY ANY MARKER) THERE IS NO OTHER INFORMATION ABOUT ?JOSEPH WILCOX?. ONE OF SARAH?S TWINS, BORN IN MISSOURI IN 1814 WAS NAMED JOSEPH, BUT FAMILY RECORDS SHOW HE DIED THE YEAR HE WAS BORN.

SARAHE INTERTWINED WITH ALL THREE IN SOMEWAY, BUT AFTER 1854 SHE PROBABLY LIVING IN JOHN LOWRY?S HOUSE UNDER THE NORTH WALL OF THE BIG FORT. THE TREELESS VICINITY WAS AS DIFFERENT FROM CANADA, MISSOURI AND ILLINOIS (AND CERTAINLY IN CONTRAST WITH RHODE ISLAND AND NEW YORK) AS A PLACE COULD BE. IT WAS AN ARID LANDSCAPE OF SAGEBRUSH AND BUNCHGRASS. WAGON RUTS WIGGLED AND WOVE THEIR WAY BETWEEN THE SAGE FROM DESTINATION TO DESTINATION WITHOUT DELINEATED STREETS. FOR SARAH THE SANPETE FORT WAS ONLY ONE AND THE LAST OF SEVERAL FAR FLUNG OUTPOSTS IN WHICH SHE SPENT HER LIFE?S BLOOD AFTER LEAVING THE CIVILIZATION OF ALBANY IN 1801.

HER LIFE WAS CHARACTERISTICALLY AMERICAN IN ITS RESTLESSNESS AND IN ITS NEAR-ROOTLESS NESS. THE FARMER?S WIFE, LIKE THE FARMER, MOVED WITH THE TIDE OF WESTWARD AGRICULTURAL EMIGRATION. TO CONTACTS WITH THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WARS OF HER PARENT?S TIME, THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR OF 1812 AND WESTWARD EMIGRATION, IN THE 1830?S, SARAH EVIDENTLY ADDED CONTACTS WITH THE MORMON PERSECUTION AND EVENTUALLY WITH THE MORMON EMIGRATION INTO THE DESERTS OF THE FAR WEST. SHE WAS NOT BAPTIZED, EVIDENTLY, UNTIL 1857, ONE YEAR AFTER HER DEATH, WHEN, OF COURSE, IT HAD TO BE DONE AT THE FOOT OF THE HILL WHERE THE MORMON CHURCH IN 1877, WAS TO ERECT A TEMPLE. IT

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WAS NOT ALTOGETHER UNFITTING OR UNSYMBOLIC THAT SARAH?S COMPANY IN THE GRAVEYARD WAS MORE RED THAN WHITE.

IT IS NOT CLEAR THAT SARAH WAS PERSONAL SECURITY EVEN BEFORE 1801, CONSIDERING THE PROXIMITY OF A PRISTINE WILDERNESS. IF IN HER LIFE SHE WAS NEVER CONCERNED WITH INFLATION, UNEMPLOYMENT, DRUGS AND LUNG CANCER, SHE FACED PROBLEMS OF RAW SURVIVAL DAILY INSTEAD. THERE IS NOW WAY TO CONCLUDE SHE EVER KNEW MUCH COLONIAL GRACE.


HERS WAS NOT COMFORT IN A LEISURELY MOUNT VERNON OR AN INTELLECTUAL MONTICELLO, NEITHER WERE HARVARD AND YALE, VITAL IN HER NEW ENGLAND ANCESTRY. HERS WAS A LIFE THAT FEATURED RIGOROUS PHYSICAL DEMANDS ON MUSCLES AND NERVES IN THE PRIMEVAL.

SHARH HEWED WOOD AND HAULED WATER PROBABLY NOT MUCH LESS THAN THE STONE-AGE SQUAWS IN THE FOREST OR THE MOUNTAINS THAT SURROUNDED HER. SHE MET THE INDIAN FROM THE WYANDOT OF THE GREAT LAKES TO THE UTE OF THE GREAT BASIN. SHE WAS PRESENT IN JOHN LOWRY?S HOUSE, ALONE, WITH HER GRANDDAUGHTER, MARY LOWRY, WHEN
THE ?HAWK-OF THE MOUNTAINS,? WAH-KA-RA, STRODE UNANNOUNCED INTO THE ROOM AND RAPTUROUSLY ASKED THE TEENAGE MARY TO BE HIS WIFE. WHEN MARY REFUSED, AND LIED ABOUT HER REASONS, SARAH WAS STILL THERE AND TENSE, AND POSSIBLY LOOKING AROUND FOR A FIRE POKER OR AN IRON FRYING PAN, (AS SO MANY FRONTIER WOMEN WERE KNOWN TO DO WHEN INDIANS APPEARED SUDDENLY IN THEIR HOUSES), WHEN HE DROVE HIS STEEL TRADING-POST KNIFE ANGRILY INTO JOHN LOWRY?S HOMEMADE TABLETOP.

THE ONLY THINGS THAT CHANGED FOR SARAH WHEN SHE CROSSED THE PLAINS ON HER BIGGEST TREK OF ALL, ONE OF A THOUSAND MILES FROM COUNCIL BLUFF TO THE GREAT SALT LAKE VALLEY, WERE THE NAMES OF THE INDIAN TRIBES AND THE CLIMATE.

IT APPEALS TO HUMAN COMPASSION, EVEN AFTER 124 YEARS, TO KNOW THAT MARY WILCOX LOWRY, HER FIRST ?BORN AND ONE OF HER ?UPPER CANADIANS,? IS STILL BY HER SIDE, 200-YEAR-OLD MOTHER?S SIDE IN ARID UTAH. MARY SURVIVED HER MOTHER BY ONLY THREE YEARS AND DIED HERSELF IN 1859, AT THE AGE OF 57.

SARAH?S GRAVESTONE CRUMBLED TO THE GROUND LAST SPRING (1980), AND AS THOUGH IN SYMPATHY, SO DID MARY?S. AS SARAH?S IDENTITY PEELS FROM HER STONE COMPLETELY, PEOPLE IN THE FUTURE MAY BOTHER TO WONDER, ?A REAL OLD ONE. WONDER WHY SHE CAME.? UNANSWERED THEY WILL GO BY THE BIRTH DATE ON HER STONE?. THE IROQUOIS? THE REDCOAT BETWEEN UPPER CANADA, MISSOURI AND ILLINOIS, BUT IN 1856, SHE LAY DOWN IN ETERNITY IN AN OLD UTE BURIAL GROUND WITH ONLY ONE OUT OF THE TWELVE TO HOLD HER CALLOUSED, WRINKLED HANDS.

WHEN SARAH WAS BORN THERE WERE STILL ELEVEN YEARS BEFORE THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TOOK OFFICE, AND THERE WERE ONLY 13 STATES, ALL IF THEM EAST OF THE APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS. WHEN SHE DIED IT WAS DURING THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE 14TH PRESIDENT, FRANKLIN PIERCE, AND MR PIERCE WAS PRESIDENT OF 31 STATES, SIX OF THEM INCLUDING CALIFORNIA, BEYOND THE MISSISSIPPI.

THE FRENCH USUALLY HAVE SOMETHING POIGNANT TO SAY ABOUT ALL EARTHLY GAMUTS: TOUT CASSE, TOUT LASSE, TOUT PASSE. ? EVERYTHING BREAKS, EVERYTHING WEARS OUT, EVERYTHING PASSES AWAY.? SOMETIMES THAT IS A CONSOLATION. IT IS ALWAYS TRUE, AND AND IT IS ALWAYS FINAL.

JAMES married ELIZABETH SEELEY on 20 Sep 1828. ELIZABETH (daughter of JUSTUS AZEL SEELEY and MEHITABLE BENNETT) was born on 29 Jul 1807 in STUBENVILLE, STBN., NY; died on 30 Mar 1900 in MOUNT PLEASANT, SNPT., UT; was buried on 31 Mar 1900 in MT. PLEASANT, SANPETE, UTAH, CITY CEMETERY. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

!RECORD TAKEN FROM FAMILY GROUP SHEET SUBMITTED BY ESTHER DAY RFD #1 BOX 266 AMERICAN FORK UTAH

!RECORD TAKEN FROM FAMILY GROUP SHEET SUBMITTED BY ESTHER DAY RFD #1 BOX 266 AMERICAN FORK UTAH
!US CENSUS 1860 AND 1870

ABRAHAM married HANNAH SAWYER on 7 Jan 1806. HANNAH (daughter of ABIJAH SAWYER and MELETIAH GRAVES) was born on 20 Jan 1786 in SWANZEY, CHESHIRE, NH; died in 1818 in PA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

!DOCUMENTATION FROM FAMILY GROUP SHEET SUBMITTED BY ETHEL DAY RUTLEDGE 161 NORTH MAIN, SALT LAKE CITY UTAH. INFORMATION TAKEN FROM NEW HAMPSHIRE CENSUS RECORD N. H. S 7 PG 440.

!DOCUMENTATION FROM FAMILY GROUP SHEET SUBMITTED BY ETHEL DAY RUTLEDGE 161 NORTH MAIN, SALT LAKE CITY UTAH. INFORMATION TAKEN FROM NEW HAMPSHIRE CENSUS RECORD N. H. S 7 PG 440.

STEPHEN married ANN BROOMHEAD. ANN (daughter of A FRENCH OFFICER and LADY MARY HUNLOKE) was born on 10 Jan 1815 in KILLAMARSH, DERBY, ENG; died on 15 Aug 1896 in DERBYSHIRE, ENG. [Group Sheet]