Willcox Family Papers, 1852-1957

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Willcox Family Papers, 1852-1957

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The Willcox family of North Carolina and Mississippi included William Penn Willcox (1825-1883), a physician in Carthage, Moore County, N.C., and Jesse Womble Willcox (b. 1879), who attended the University of North Carolina and was a physician in North Carolina and superintendent at several sanitoria, including the North Carolina State Sanitorium, 1911-1912. The collection consists of letters, deeds, receipts, autograph albums, a tintype, and other papers of the Willcox family. Letters are dated 1852-1933, most of them addressed to William P. Willcox in North Carolina during the 1850s. Topics include the health of friends and family, politics and the railroad, farming, cotton, teaching, and slaves. Later letters concern hiring hands in North Carolina for planters in Louisiana, estate settlement, and personal financial matters. Deeds are dated 1868-1936. The two earliest are from Lafayette County, Miss. The rest are from North Carolina, five from Moore County, N.C., 1921-1936. Other papers include a 1920 United States Army discharge for Jesse W. Willcox; a 1957 newspaper clipping about him; three sheets of handwritten Willcox family genealogy; a 1903 students handbook from the University of North Carolina that Jesse W. Willcox used as a cash account book; an autograph album, 1884-1886, belonging to Mary Vincent, a teacher in Tennessee; an autograph book, 1928-1929, belonging Patricia Alvinne Louise Willcox, with autographs collected in Custer, S.D., where she went to high school; and a tintype of Mary Alvin Vincent Ashburn (1861-1938).

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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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. ...

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