Chester WILCOX
NOTES: 1. Birthplace may be 'Whitestown, , NY' SOURCES: 1. Ancestral File SOURCES: 1. This family group sheet compiled by Marion Grace Jewell Nicholls, of Gilbert, AZ. 2. Your Ancestors, Mesa, AZ-LDS Lib. 3. 1850 Census 4. IGI-NY Batch 7203307 p. 3-children Nos. 1-6 BIRTHPLACE: Probably Whitestown OR Pompey, NY/CT (husb) NOTES: From Your Ancestors, p. 1646-Descendants of Wm. Wilcoxson: Chester was born in CT; came to town of Camden when a boy, being one of the Pioneers of the Town, making all the roads in the section known as the hillsborough Roads. He was a farmer and a speculator in cattle. He married Rilla Dunbar of Camden by whom he had several children. Chester's father "perhaps John Wilcox" Aurelia Sperry's parents came in 1790's with her brothers and sisters to Camden, NY from Harwinton, CT. From Your Ancestors, p. 1646: Chester and 2 brothers came to Pompey, Onondaga, NY in early 1800's, from MA. Chester was a surveyor and engaged to lay out the town of Camden. The History of Camden credits Chester with Child Polly (Mary Ann) by first wife, but descendants say she was his wife's child by her 1st husband, Samuel Woods and that she married Samuel Scoville. The Sperrys were from Harwinton, CT-several brothers and sisters came to Camden in 1790's. NAMES: Auralia/Rilla (Dunbar) Woods NAMES: Mary Ann (Polly) (Child #3 of Chester and Auralia Sperry) NAMES: Edwin D./S. Ives Wilcox (Child #3 of Chester and Auralia (Dunbar) Woods) NAMES: Frederick Dunbar/Delancy Wilcox (Child #4 of Chester and Auralia) NOTES: Child #5 of Chester and Auralia moved to MI while husband served as a missionary to Indians Child #6 of Chester and Auralia was a cripple, died age 81
SOURCES: 1. This family group sheet compiled by Marion Grace Jewell Nicholls, of Gilbert, AZ. 2. IGI-NY Batch 7203307 p. 3 (husb Andrew) 3. Your Ancestors, Mesa, AZ-LDS Lib.
SOURCES: 1. This Family Group Sheet was compiled by Marion Grace Jewell Nicholls, of Gilbert, AZ. 2. IGI - NY - Batch #7203307 (page 3) 3. Book "Your Ancestors" - Mesa, AZ FHL
He married Aurelia or Rilla Dunbar Woods 20 Jun 1825 at Camden, Oneida, New York . Aurelia or Rilla Dunbar Woods was born at Plymouth, Litchfield, Connecticut 1798 daughter of Seth Dunbar and Jerusha Cowles or cole .
They were the parents of 10
children:
Seth Wilcox
born 16 Sep 1827.
Louisa Aurelia Wilcox
born 30 Aug 1829.
Rosanna Wilcox
born 1830.
Seth Dunbar Wilcox
born 11 Aug 1831.
Andrew Chester Wilcox
born 2 Apr 1833.
Aurelia Wilcox
born 1834.
Seth Wilcox
born 1835.
Edwin Ives or D. Wilcox
born 17 Jul 1837.
Frederic Delancy (Dunbar) Wilcox
born 8 Oct 1839.
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Chester Wilcox died 4 Aug 1862 at Camden, Oneida, New York .
Aurelia or Rilla Dunbar Woods died 13 Sep 1878 at Camden, Oneida, New York .