THE WALTER WILCOX STORY
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My grandparents, Walter M. and Lucy Wilcox, came to Iowa from Illinois about 1892 and settled on a farm two and one-half miles south of where Lytton was later started. They had four sons --- Oscar, Norman, Charles, and Bert, and three daughters --- Sally Minder, Mary Bancroft and Ursula Bancroft. Also, two brothers of grandpa's and one half-brother came; Alonzo and Charles Wilcox and John Sharp. Some of them had families and moved them to Calhoun County and lived near my grandparents. Grandfather Wilcox was not a minister, but filled the pulpit many times, especially at the little church in Sac County at the Cedar Cemetery. Grandpa felt the need of a church near, se he gave some land east of thier home, on the same section where my folks, the George Davises, lived. The church was there for many years. When the town of Lytton started in 1900, the church building was moved, pulled by horses to a location in Lytton.
Soon after 1900, my grandparents and most of their family moved on. Grandpa Wilcox went to Garden City, Clark County, South Dakota. Grandma died there in 1905 and Grandpa came back to Iowa. He bought a house in Rockwell City, just west of the Milwaukee depot.
Later he married his cousin's widow from Wisconsin. They lived in Rockwell City many years. Around 1917 they moved to Tabor, Iowa to be near a church group called the Faith Home Church.
Grandpa Wilcox was a Civil War veteran. He died at the age of 97. His wife, Mary passed away a few months later. They are buried in the Tabor Cemetery.
Submitted by thier grandaughter Ruby V. Beswick - to Calhoun County History
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