George Willcox (b. 1783) married Mary Ann Tyson (b. 1790). Their son, William Penn Willcox (1825-1883), a physician in Carthage, Moore County, N.C., married Ann Eliza Harrington (1830-1872). Joseph D. Willcox, brother of William P. Willcox, lived in Wyatt, Miss., in the 1850s.
William P. and Ann Willcox had a son, William Cyrus Willcox (1855-1932), who married Virginia B. Waddell (1856-1933). Jesse Womble Willcox was the son of William C. and Virginia Willcox.
Jesse W. Willcox was born on 20 September 1879 in Carthage, N.C. He received a Ph.B. degree in 1903 and an M.D. degree in 1906 from the University of North Carolina. He married Meta Vestal Watson in 1907. He practiced medicine in Carthage, 1906-1911, and was resident physician and acting superintendent of the North Carolina State Sanitorium, 1911-1912. He was a physician at Laurel Hill, 1912-1918 and 1920-1922; first lieutenant, United States Medical Corps, 1918-1920; passed assistant surgeon, United States Public Health Service, 1922-1923; and medical director of the Pine Breeze Sanitorium in Chattanooga, Tenn., beginning in 1924. He was superintendent of the Glenridge Sanitorium in Schenectady, N.Y., in 1933.
Mary Vincent, whose autograph book and tintype are in this collection, was born in October 1861 and died in October 1938. She was the daughter of Dolfus Ferdinand Vincent and Mary Shakelford Vincent and was later known as Mary Alvin Vincent Ashburn (Mollie or Polly). She appears to have been a teacher in Manchester, Tenn.
From the guide to the Willcox Family Papers, 1852-1957, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.)
