Randolph County AlArchives News.....Newton O. Wilcox dies in Atlanta. June 30, 1949
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The Columbus Ledger June 30, 1949
A 23-vear old Atlantan has been ordered held for “voluntary manslaughter” of his 
father by a Fulton County Ga coroner jury after he attended funeral rites for 
his father in Alabama.
Leonard Wilcox was jailed on “suspicion of manslaughter’’ by Homicide square J. 
A. Preston and H.C. Newton. 
The detectives said the altercation occurred Saturday night father and son in 
Atlanta. Newton O. Wilcox Sr 66 a retired cotton mill worker was buried 
yesterday at Providence cemetery Randolph County Ala. 
The coroner’s jury in ordering the son held ruled that testimony brought out in 
the inquest is that the father and son had a fight causing the father to fall 
dying apparently a blow to the head.
An autopsy by the Fulton County physician determined death resulted from a 
hemorrhage Newton Wilcox spent his boyhood days in Randolph County Ala.

Additional Comments:
The Atlanta Constitution Jun 27, 1949:
Funeral services for Newton Ollie Wilcox, 66, retired cotton worker who died 
Saturday night at his home, 312 Harden St., S. E. will be held at 10 a. m. 
tomorrow at the chapel of J. Austin Dillon. The Rev. G. L. Merck will officiate. 
Burial will be in Providence Cemetery, Randolph County, Ala.
Born in Randolph County, Mr. Wilcox lived in Atlanta 15 years. He was a member 
of the Baptist Church, and the Woodmen of the Surviving are his widow; sons. 
Leonard, Newton Ohio, Jr., and Leon Wilcox, of Atlanta, and a brother, Arthur 
Wilcox, of Montgomery, Ala.

The Atlanta Constitution Jul 21, 1958:
The friends and relatives of Mrs. Cora Velvy Wilcox, Mr. and Mrs. Newton O. 
Wilcox, Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Wilcox, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Wilcox. Mr. W. T. Irwin. 
Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Irwin. Mr. L. H. Irwin, eight grandchildren, several nieces 
and nephews are invited to attend the funeral of Mrs. Cora Velvy Wilcox, 
Tuesday, July 22, 1958, at 11 a.m., from Dillon's Chapel. Interment, Providence 
Baptist churchyard. Woodland, Ala. (Florists, 10 a.m.). J. Austin Dillon Co.



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