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Calloway County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Martha A. Taylor Wilcox in Henry County, Tennessee, on September 18, 1859. Father of R.F. Wilcox and Lillian Wilcox. Attended school in Calloway County, Kentucky, in 1850. Farmer in Calloway County in 1860. Owned three enslaved persons in Calloway County in 1860.

Details

Sex: Male
Race: White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Calloway County, District 2, p. 403A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Calloway County, p. 212.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Calloway County, p. 229A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Tennessee, Henry County, District 5, p. 254B.

Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, TN, Henry County, May 1898 - Aug 1929: Marriages 3, p. 99.

Tennessee, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1779-2008, Tennessee County, District and Probate Courts, Henry County Administrators Letters, 1899-1968, p. 191.

Citation

Wilcox, John S.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32197451 (November 12, 2026).

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Wm M. Starks et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette

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