Walter Eli WILCOX

                   SOURCES:  1. This Family Group Sheet compiled by Marion Grace Jewell
               Nicholls, of Gilbert, Arizona.
            2. Walter Eli Wilcox - Temple Book.
NOTES:    1. Walter Eli, ordined Seventy 8 October 1844. Ordained High
               Prist on 8 May 1898.  Married - By Phineas Richards, Maria's
               Father. Witnesses - Brigham Young, Heber C. Kinball, Doctor
               Willard Richards, Maria's Uncle. Sealed in the Temple - By
               Brigham Young-9 May 1860. Heber C. Kimball and Edward
               Stevenson were witnesses.
            2. Child #7, Charles Frederick Wilcox as Pres. of 57th quorum of
               Seventies,(like his father). He was a Missionary in England
               1880 to 1882. He graduated 1890 from the Medical Department
               At the University of New York.
            3. Walter Eli, was a set-apart temple worker in Salt Lake Temple
               held this calling for 15 years, beginniand in 1897. At his
               death, he was survivied by his 5th wife, Amanda, 13 sons,
               6 daughters, and 150 Grand children and Great Grand children.
            4. On page 74 Walter Eli Temple Book, it says that Walter Eli
               Wilcox and Maria Wealthy Richards were first sealed, but not
               over an alter. Heber C. Kimball and Elizabeth Hawkins were
               witnesses. He recorded also that they had been married first
               on 10 Dec. 1844 in Nauvoo. His second sealing to Maria was
               on 9 May 1860 by Brigham Young in same place with same
               witnesses.