Brief Life History of James Albert
When James Albert Wilcox was born in 1836, in Bath, Bath, Steuben, New York, United States, his father, Elijah Wilcox, was 26 and his mother, Sally Ann Cummings, was 23. He married Jane Agnes Spraker on 28 May 1857, in Bath, Bath, Steuben, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 30 June 1864, in Chattanooga, Hamilton, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 28, and was buried in Chattanooga, Hamilton, Tennessee, United States.
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- James Wilcox in household of Elijah Wilcox, "United States Census, 1850"
- James Wilcox, "Find A Grave Index"
- James Wilcox in entry for George Edward Wilcox and Mary Bellinger, "New York, County Marriages, 1847-1848; 1908-1936"
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1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1846
Tennessee was known as the Volunteer State because during the Mexican War the government asked Tennessee for 3,000 volunteer soldiers and 30,000 joined.
Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Flintshire): variant of Wilcock , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This form of the surname is based on the pronunciation.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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