HARRISON WILCOX OLIVER

JOHN married SABRA ELLEN WILCOX on 3 Oct 1883 in FAIRVIEW, SANPETE, UT. SABRA (daughter of JOHN HENRY OWEN WIllcox and MARY YOUNG) was born on 6 Oct 1865 in MT PLEASANT, UTAH, UT; died on 18 May 1914 in MOAB, GRAND CO., UT; was buried in May 1914 in MOAB, GRAND CO., UT. [Group Sheet]

WILLIAM married NANCY FRANCES LOVERN. [Group Sheet]

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)

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

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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

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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]

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!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

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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]