the WILCOX FAmily
by and Sophie wilcox
In this undated photo owned by Eva Linn, are the "By Wilcox and Parrish families." It is Photo 239. No individuals are identified.
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When rural routes opened up in Table Rock, there were two, and one was carried by B. L. Wilcox.
As reported in the June 25, 1901 Nebraska State Journal, "TABLE ROCK, Neb., June 25.--(Special.)--The mail boxes for the two new rural mall routes out of Table Rock arrived yesterday, and are being distributed. These two routes will go into operation Monday. July 1. B. L. Wilcox is the carrier on the north route and J. H. Talbot on the south." |
Photo 648: Carrier Wilcox, undated.
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Byron Wilcox was a Civil War veteran. He fought in Company A of the 137th Pennsylvania Infantry. He belonged to the Table Rock GAR Post, the John N. Gere Post. A news article in the 1930s reported that only seven members were left alive. Byron Wilcox was one of them. The 137th engaged in significant battles including Sugar Loaf Mountain, Antietam, and Chancellorsville.
By Wilcox is briefly described in a 1939 memoir about the rural Bunker Hill neighborhood (often called "North Table Rock"). The memoir by Barry O. Boone talks about the building of their country school. By Wilcox, a GAR man, helped. He was "rather a fragile looking" man at that time:
TABLE ROCK. Neb.. Jan. 13 What is believed by four of the remaining seven members of the John N. Gere Post, No. 120, G. A. R. to have been the last election of officers of the post has been held. The quartet represented the entire attendance at the recent meeting. The four are Fred W. Ault, Peter Gold, Peter Stevens and John H Layman, all of whom are past eighty years of age. Infirmities of age and severe cold kept Edward Wood, another member, from attending the meeting. William Sutton is spending the winter in Texas and the seventh member, Byron Wilcox, Is residing with a daughter in Colorado.
Wilcox did not outlive ALL the GAR men, as Boone remembered. John Layman was the last, but only by a couple of years..
Wilcox did not outlive ALL the GAR men, as Boone remembered. John Layman was the last, but only by a couple of years..
Ernest & addie WILCOX
Ernest Wilcox is on this ball team, Photo 214 (undated), far right. The photo labels him as a young man in the front row, but some of Ernie's grandchildren point out a man in the row behind as Ernie.
Addie Wiar Wilcox is in this pictures of the Junior class in 1910, fifth from the left. The girls are: Ella Beck Smith, Bessie
Hickman Irwin, Ada Mort, Callie Barrett,
Addie Wiar Wilcox, Lila Jobe, Gertrude Glenn Trump, and Hazel Taylor Kuhn
Photo 46 - the Class of 1911. Addie Wiar Wilcox is in the Front row, left, then Lillian Strejc, and Mort Tillman. Back
row: Gertrude Glenn Trump, _____ Jobe, Hazel Taylor Kuhn, Callie Barrett,
and Ella Beck Smith.
Ron Wilcox & his best girl norma lu, who goes by toby. toby shared this in 2019, in honor of their 61st wedding anniversary
Photo 8068, shared by Toby Wilcox in 2019
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PHoto 8068b, Ron & Toby Wilcox celebrating their 56th anniversary, in 2014. Toby's facebook post said that they ran away and got married after having known each other for 3 months!
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