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Size | 0.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 35 items) |
Abstract | 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). |
Creator | Willcox (Family : Willcox, William Penn, 1825-1883) |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Kristin Soya, November 2001
Encoded by: Kristin Soya, November 2001
Updated by: Nancy Kaiser, January 2006; Kathryn Michaelis, November 2009
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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.
Jesse W. Willcox was born on 20 September 1879 in Carthage, N.C. He received a Ph.B. degree in 1903 and an M.D. degree in 1906 from the University of North Carolina. He married Meta Vestal Watson in 1907. He practiced medicine in Carthage, 1906-1911, and was resident physician and acting superintendent of the North Carolina State Sanitorium, 1911-1912. He was a physician at Laurel Hill, 1912-1918 and 1920-1922; first lieutenant, United States Medical Corps, 1918-1920; passed assistant surgeon, United States Public Health Service, 1922-1923; and medical director of the Pine Breeze Sanitorium in Chattanooga, Tenn., beginning in 1924. He was superintendent of the Glenridge Sanitorium in Schenectady, N.Y., in 1933.
Mary Vincent, whose autograph book and tintype are in this collection, was born in October 1861 and died in October 1938. She was the daughter of Dolfus Ferdinand Vincent and Mary Shakelford Vincent and was later known as Mary Alvin Vincent Ashburn (Mollie or Polly). She appears to have been a teacher in Manchester, Tenn.
Back to TopThe collection consists of letters, deeds, receipts, autograph albums, a tintype, and other papers of the Willcox family of North Carolina and Mississippi. Letters are dated 1852-1933, most of them addressed to William P. Willcox in North Carolina during the 1850s. In them, his brother Joseph D. Willcox of Wyatt, Miss., and others discussed 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 physician 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 Vincent.
Back to TopThe collection consists of letters, deeds, receipts, autograph albums, a tintype, and other papers of the Willcox family of North Carolina and Mississippi. Included are 15 pages of typed transcriptions of most of the letters. Researchers should use their own discretion regarding the accuracy of these transcriptions. The letters are dated 1852-1933, most of them addressed to William P. Willcox in North Carolina during the 1850s. In them, his brother Joseph D. Willcox of Wyatt, Miss., and others discussed the health of friends and family, politics and the railroad, farming, cotton, teaching, and slaves. Family matters are discussed in two more letters and a letter fragment written by Annie, Mollie Willcox, and Sallie M. Willcox. An 1870 letter from C. Harrington to William Willcox gives news of a farm in Mansfield, La., and describes a plan for hiring hands from North Carolina for planters in Louisiana. There are two letters, 1879 and 1880, from Willcox's legal counsel regarding debt collection and payments related to an estate settlement. Another 1880 letter is from a firm in New York to W. C. Willcox, about money he was to receive because of his lease of the Henly Hill Gold Mine. A 1904 letter states that P. A. Willcox was willing to pay for his cousin, Jesse W. Willcox, to go to the University of North Carolina. A letter from Billy to Pat, 25 November 1933, on letterhead of the Glenridge Sanitorium, Schenectady, N.Y., scolds Pat for urgently requesting money to buy a class jacket.
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. There are also two receipts: one from a Philadelphia bookstore in 1867; the other from a Fayetteville, N.C., dry goods store in 1867.
Other papers include a 1920 United States Army discharge for Jesse W. Willcox, a 1957 newspaper clipping about him, and three sheets of handwritten Willcox family genealogy.
Also included are three small volumes: two autograph albums and a 1903 students handbook from the University of North Carolina that was published by the Young Men's Christian Association of the University of North Carolina and used by Jesse W. Willcox as a cash account book. One autograph album belonged to Mary Vincent, who was a teacher in Tennessee. The majority of the autographs in it are from Tennessee, 1884-1886. The other autograph book belonged to Patricia Alvinne Louise Willcox. The majority of these autographs were collected in Custer, S.D., where she went to high school, 1928-1929. The collection also contains a tintype of Mary Vincent.
Folder 1 |
Letters, 1852-1933 |
Folder 2 |
Typed transcriptions of letters |
Folder 3 |
Deeds and receipts |
Folder 4 |
Autograph album, 1884-1886 |
Folder 5 |
Autograph album, 1928-1929 |
Folder 6 |
Cash account book, 1903 |
Folder 7 |
Miscellaneous |
Special Format Image SF-P-5052/1 |
Tintype of Mary Vincent |