Hi Brian, Your information sounds so much like mine that I can't help but think they might possibly be connected somehow. My illusive WILCOX is my ggrandfather, John Dennis WILCOX. He was born about 1819 (don't know where). He married Elisabeth S. ROCKWELL in Lorain Co., OH in 1852. They had four children: Marion Reiley "Minnie" ( the Reiley could be a clue to a family name), Sallie Maria (b. Knox Co., IN), Helen Virginia - my gmother (b. Parke Co., IN) and Harry S. (b. near Evansville, IN). John Dennis died in Vincennes, Knox Co., IN in 1869, and the family migrated to Kalamazoo Co., MI. Could my John Dennis WILCOX possibly be a brother to your Abel WILCOX? Tom Miller Vicksburg, MI