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Author: MRS. WILTON PHILIP COBB
The Willcox Family.

  The Willcox family of Dodge County descended from John Willcox, Sr., of North
Carolina, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. His wife was Rebecca
Butler, and they were the parents of: Elizabeth, who married Lewis Barger; John,
who married Mary Lea; Jane, who married James Allston; Thomas, who married a
McSwain; James, who married, first, Winnifred Talley, and second, Margaret
McMullen; George, who married, first, Mary Tyson, and second, Margaret Martin;
Rebecca, who married James Willcox.

  John and his wife, Mary Lea, came to this section about the time that Telfair
County was created, 1807, and settled on the Ocmulgee River, near Temperance, a
few miles from Rhine. He was a boat builder in the days of pole boats and
established a boat yard near his residence. He built and operated pole boats on
the river, and during the war of 1812-1815 was employed by the army to transport
army supplies from Hartford to points along the Ocmulgee and Altamaha Rivers. He
was also a planter and mechanic. He was the father of a large family, his
descendants being scattered over the counties of Dodge, Telfair and Wilcox.
Following is as near a complete list of his descendants as we were able to
obtain: John, who married, first, Mary Daniel, and second, Louise Connor; Mark
Lee, who married Sarah Ann Elizabeth Coffee; Mitchell G., who married Martha
Swain; Woodson, who married Susan Swain; James Lea, who married Bettie McDuffie;
George, who married Sallie Daniel; Thomas, who married Abbie McDuffie; Lewis
Barges, who married Sarah McDuffie; Clark, who married, first, Jane Fuller, and
second, Sudie Reid; Joseph.

  Mark Lee, son of John, was an Indian fighter and became a General. He also
served his county in the Legislature, and the county of Wilcox was named in his
honor. He married Sarah Ann Elizabeth Coffee, daughter of General John Coffee,
and they were the parents of: Andrew Jackson, who married Gertrude Rogers; John
C., who married Lizzie Swain; Tom Pete, who married Susan Coffee; Ann, who
married Seaborn Burch; Polly, who married Tom Adams; Susan, who married Dr.
William E. Burch; Jane, who married Wright Collins; Virginia, who married Wright
Carswell; Rebecca, who married Yancey Griffin; Mittie, who married Allen Deen; a
daughter, Lewis, who married George Adams.

  John, son of John and Mary Lea, married, first, Mary Daniel, and they were the
parents of: Nancy, who married, first, Hendley Harrell, and second, Noah Cobb;
Sallie, who married John J. Ryals; George, who was killed in the War Between the
States. John married, second, Louise Connor, and they were the parents of:
Wilson, who was killed in the war of the sixties; Lewis, who married Martha
Julia Willcox; Mittie, who married Levi Harrell; Harriet, who married William
Harrell; Rebecca, who married John Boney.

  Mitchell G., son of John, the pioneer, married Martha Swain, and they were the
parents of: Thomas S., Jr., who married Sarah Hamilton; James, who married Ann
Brown; George M., who married Leila Calhoun; Mattie, who married Lewis Willcox;
Melcina, who married Wool Clements; Elizabeth ("Tack"), who married Levi Evans;
Joe, who married Eliza Hamilton; John S. ("Trick"), who married Mollie Hamilton;
Nannie, who married Norman Doster; Sallie, who married Frank Haskins; Mary, who
was the first wife of Wiley J. Williams; and Rebecca, who became the second wife
of Wiley J. Williams; Susanna, who married William Campbell; Lewis.

  Clark, son of John, the pioneer, married Jane Fuller. His second wife was
Sudie Reid, and they were the parents of: W. A., who married Ida Marchant; R.
L., who married Effie Burch; John, who married Mollie Clark; Sudie; Mary, who
married John Doster; Nannie, who married Mike Brophy; George R., who married,
first, Rebecca Campbell, and second, Melcina Hamilton.

  Andrew Jackson, son of Gen. Mark Lee Willcox, married Gertrude Rogers, and
they were the parents of Mary Helen, who married James M. Arthur.

  Thomas S., Jr., son of Mitchell G., married Sarah Hamilton, and they were the
parents of: Joe; Hamilton, who married Mae Cook; Anna, who married T. 0.
Bozeman; Mae, who married Ben G. Harrell; Louise.

  Joe, son of Mitchell G., married Eliza Hamilton, and they were the parents of:
John Mitchell, who married Mary Causley; Maggie, who married John M. Clark;
Mattie, who married E. W. Millican; Joe Lee, who married a Heath.

  George M., son of James and his wife, Bettie McDuffie, married Nannie Daniel,
and they were the parents of: J. Y., who married, first, Lydia Humphrey, and
second, Lillie Bowen Thompson; Jack, who married Beckie Harrell; W. C., who
married Lula Harrell; Clark, who married Alice Lowery; N. H., who married,
first, Maggie Bowen, and second, Nettie Harrell; G. M., who married Fannie
Kirkland; Sophronia, who married S. B. Daniel; Gallic, who married L. A.
Harrell; Sadie, who married John Land; Bettie, who married J. S. Bohannon.

  N. H., son of George M., married Maggie Bowen, and they were the parents of:
Jim Buck, who married Mattie Thompson; Bessie, who married L. T. Thompson; Mary,
who married Tom Bryant; Nannie, who married Charlie Cheek; Johnnie T.

  Lewis, son of John, the third, married Martha Julia Willcox, and they were the
parents of: Robert Lee, who married Mamie Ross; Mitchell, who married Willie Mae
Mann; J. K., who married Margaret Rebecca Coffee; James C., who married Stella
Daniel; Lewis, who married Edna Mitchell; Stella, who married Dr. P. D. Hicks;
Ruth, who married H. H. Odum; Grady.



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DODGE COUNTY

COPYRIGHT    1932
By MRS. WILTON PHILIP COBB

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