Horace H. Wilcox, Concordia Parish, Louisiana Submitted by Mike Miller ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** ****************** Horace H. Wilcox, one of the successful and popular planters of L'Argent, Concordia parish, La., claims Mississippi as his native soil, his birth occurring in Jefferson county in 1851. His parents, Hon. Gustavus H. and Jane B. (Wiggington) Wilcox, were natives, respectively, of Connecticut and Virginia, the father born in 1810 and the mother in 1811. The elder Wilcox was not favored with the best educational advantages, but notwithstanding many drawbacks and discouragements, he received a thorough education, all the result of his own exertions. When quite young he moved from his native state to Ohio with his parents, and from there to Kentucky, where he was married in 1833 to Miss Jane B. Wiggington, daughter of James and Winnifred Wiggington. After marriage, or about 1835, Mr. Wilcox moved to Rodney, Jefferson county, Miss., began practicing law, the study of which he had pursued in Kentucky, and for many years he ranked among the prominent legal lights of Mississippi. He was a thorough student, was concise but logical and forcible in manner, was a careful and accurate adviser, and an earnest and conscientious advocate. He was not an office-seeker, but was once chosen to represent his district in the state senate. Politically he was a whig and opposed to secession, fighting against it to the last. To his marriage were born seven children, four of whom survive at the present time: James 0. (of New Orleans), David B. (of Mississippi), and Charles A., (also of Mississippi). Horace H. Wilcox, the youngest of the children living, attended school a short time at Louisville, Ky., but most of his education was received by his own efforts. He began for himself, at the age of sixteen years, as a clerk in a store, and subsequently held other positions, but in 1871 he came to Louisiana. In 1885 he located on his beautiful plantation on Lake St. John and there he has resided since. He was chosen a member of the police jury in 1889, and has held that position ever since. He was married in 1874 to Miss Susan E. Brown, daughter of Harvey M. and Susan (Wallace) Brown, the father a native of Ohio and the mother of Kentucky. Mr. and Mrs. Wilcox's union has been blessed by the birth of two daughters, Mary E. and Jane B., accomplished and cultured young ladies. Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 456. Published by the Goodspeed Publishing Company, Chicago, 1892.