Chester WILCOX
NOTES: 1. Birthplace may be 'Whitestown, , NY' SOURCES: 1. Ancestral File SOURCES: 1. This family group sheet compiled by Marion Grace Jewell Nicholls, of Gilbert, AZ. 2. Your Ancestors, Mesa, AZ-LDS Lib. 3. 1850 Census 4. IGI-NY Batch 7203307 p. 3-children Nos. 1-6 BIRTHPLACE: Probably Whitestown OR Pompey, NY/CT (husb) NOTES: From Your Ancestors, p. 1646-Descendants of Wm. Wilcoxson: Chester was born in CT; came to town of Camden when a boy, being one of the Pioneers of the Town, making all the roads in the section known as the hillsborough Roads. He was a farmer and a speculator in cattle. He married Rilla Dunbar of Camden by whom he had several children. Chester's father "perhaps John Wilcox" Aurelia Sperry's parents came in 1790's with her brothers and sisters to Camden, NY from Harwinton, CT. From Your Ancestors, p. 1646: Chester and 2 brothers came to Pompey, Onondaga, NY in early 1800's, from MA. Chester was a surveyor and engaged to lay out the town of Camden. The History of Camden credits Chester with Child Polly (Mary Ann) by first wife, but descendants say she was his wife's child by her 1st husband, Samuel Woods and that she married Samuel Scoville. The Sperrys were from Harwinton, CT-several brothers and sisters came to Camden in 1790's. NAMES: Auralia/Rilla (Dunbar) Woods NAMES: Mary Ann (Polly) (Child #3 of Chester and Auralia Sperry) NAMES: Edwin D./S. Ives Wilcox (Child #3 of Chester and Auralia (Dunbar) Woods) NAMES: Frederick Dunbar/Delancy Wilcox (Child #4 of Chester and Auralia) NOTES: Child #5 of Chester and Auralia moved to MI while husband served as a missionary to Indians Child #6 of Chester and Auralia was a cripple, died age 81
SOURCES: 1. This family group sheet was compiled by Marion Grace Jewell Nicholls of Gilbert, AZ. 2. IGI-MI-Batch 8109611 p.49 - Levi S. Wilcox - Isabella Lambie - marriage - p.15 - son Chester G. 3. Ancestral File 4. 1997 Ordinance Index - nil 5. Your Ancestors Mesa, AZ - LDS Lib 6. DAR - Vol 57 p.11 - references - p.1646
He married Aurelia Sperry 1815 at of New York . Aurelia Sperry was born at Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut 1795 .
They were the parents of 5
children:
Levi Sheldon Wilcox
born 3 Dec 1819.
Mindwell Wilcox
born Abt 1820.
Dorcus Mindwell Wilcox
born 12 Dec 1816.
Charlotte Aurelia Wilcox
born 3 Apr 1822.
Blocked
Chester Wilcox died 4 Aug 1862 at Camden, Oneida, New York .
Aurelia Sperry died 24 Feb 1824 at Camden, Oneida, New York .