When Ruth Wilcox was born on 31 December 1818, in Chenango, New York, United States, her father, Job Willcox, was 36 and her mother, Elizabeth Phillips, was 33. She married Ezekiel G Scott about 1840. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Fremont, Sullivan, New York, United States in 1855. She died on 3 January 1904, in Gering, Scotts Bluff, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 85.
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With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
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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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