Joseph WILCOX
SOURCES: 1. This family group sheet was compiled by Marion Grace Jewell Nicholls of Gilbert, AZ. 2. IGI 3. Ancestral File - nil 4. 1997 Ordinance Index - nil 5. (F599092) - Maude Allen's Records - Book 3 p.26 6. Your Ancestors - Mesa, AZ, LDS Lib p.71 Descendant of Edward Wilcox 7. IGI-RI-Batch 7211712 p.11 - son George S., Mary, Hannah, Edward - son - Batch 7211712 p.54 - Son-Benjamin F. - Ext - C501891 p.0689 - p.13 - son-Charlie W. 8. Book RG974.5 BEA - Vol 3 p.308 - RI marriages from Gravestones - children born p.343 - Dau-Eliza Ann 9. Book RD974.5R - Vol 2 p.686/687 - Rep. Men and Old Fam. of RI 10. IGI-RI-Ext - M501892 p.0225 - Benjamin F. Wilcox md Elizabeth Green NOTE: Was Called - "one eye Joseph" - This Joseph was called "One eye" to distinguish him from the other Josephs. When he was a baby his father shot and suppposed he had killed a loon. He brought it home and laid it on the hearth of the fireplace. It revived, the baby was crawling on the floor and it stuck him in the eye with its bill and destoyed the sight. See Burdick Gen. p.18
SOURCES: 1. Ancestral File - nil 2. 1997 Ordinance Index
He married Hulda Sherman Abt 1798 at of Washington, Rhode Island . Hulda Sherman was born at Exeter, Washington, Rhode Island 9 Jan 1772 .
They were the parents of 7
children:
George S. Wilcox
born 9 Feb 1799.
Mary Wilcox
born 11 Aug 1801.
Rebecca Wilcox
born 11 Jul 1804.
Edward Wilcox
born 1 Aug 1806.
Hannah Wilcox
born 25 Feb 1809.
Rebecca Wilcox
born 24 Aug 1811.
Nancy Wilcox
born 22 Feb 1814.
Hulda Sherman died 1 Dec 1826 .