When Samuel Wilcox was born in 1814, in Green, Kentucky, United States, his father, Ephraim A. Wilcox, was 35 and his mother, Eleanor Martin, was 22. He married Rachel Manerva Rogers on 19 November 1846, in Petersburg, Menard, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Illinois, United States in 1870 and Crane Creek Township, Mason, Illinois, United States in 1870. He died on 22 August 1870, in Easton, Mason, Illinois, United States, at the age of 56, and was buried in Big Grove Cemetery, Mason, Illinois, United States.
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The western part of Kentucky purchased by Andrew Jackson from the Chickasaw Indians in 1818. It became known as the Jackson Purchase. This included land that wasn't originally part of Kentucky when it became a state.
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Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
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.
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