Patsy, Thank you for replying but so far I have not come accross any of the names you mentioned. I have only found my GGrandfather Thomas Wilcox in Keokuk County, IA and Grundy Co.,IL but that doesn't mean he didn't come North from the South. I have no information on who his parents or siblings are and only found this one piece of information referring to WILCOX name in my Grandmother's album scrapbook. Thomas Wilcox was killed May 1900 in Braceville, IL. and my grandmother never talked about him or about her childhood. Joanne Reno,NV