This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wilcox, Gates, Cooper, Chamberlain, Dorland, Rice, Madden, Savage, Passwater, Jones Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DWB.2ACE/116 Message Board Post: History of Hardin Co., Ohio Warner, Beers & Co. 1883 Pages 864-865 Biographical Sketches: BLANCHARD TOWNSHIP. H. N. WILCOX, farmer and stock-raiser, P. 0. Silver Creek, was born in Ross County, Ohio, July 3, 1825, and is the son of Thomas and Hannah (Gates) Wilcox, natives of Ohio, both of whom are buried in the Yelverton Cemetery. The former was born in 1800 and died in 1853, having been preceded by his wife in 1845. Our subject came with his parents to Hardin County at the age of eight years, and was educated in the common schools. His grandfather, John Wilcox, was a native of Pennsylvania and of German parentage. On November 11, 1846, our subject was married to Elizabeth Cooper, widow of Reuben Chamberlain and daughter of Justus and Hannah Cooper, natives of Now Jersey and Pennsylvania respectively. Ms. Wilcox was born in Hamilton County, Ohio, August 23, 1819, and had two children by her first marriage - Phoebe S., wife of Joseph Dorland, and Hannah M., wife of Thomas Rice, and formerly the widow of Calvin Rice (deceased). Mr. and Mrs. Wilcox are the parents of eight child! ren, viz., Elizabeth S. (wife of M. Madden), Thomas E., Amos and Mary M. (deceased), Amanda Jana (wife of James Wilson), Martha A. (wife of J. Madden), Curtis A. and Ada F. Mr. Wilcox and his wife have been members of the Methodist Episcopal Church for upward of twenty years, and be has been Class Leader, Steward and Trustee for many years. He has filled the public offices of Township Trustee, Supervisor and School Director for many years. He resided in Sauk County, Wis., for two years, and since then has been a resident of Hardin County. His son, Curtis A. Wilcox, was born June 3, 1861, in Taylor Creek Township, in the log house be now occupies, and which was erected in 1846. He was married, November 23, 1882, to Lavinia L., daughter of Enoch J. and Almeda (Savage) Passwater. The latter died in September, 1861. Mrs. Wilcox was born in McLean County, Ill. Her father re-married, taking for his second wife, Anna Jones.