Sarah (Boone) Wilcoxson (1724 - 1815)

Born 7 Jun 1724 in New Britain, Berks County, Pennsylvania

Ancestors

Wife of John Wilcoxson Sr. — married 29 May 1742 in Pennsylvania

Descendants

Died 18 Jul 1815 at age 91 in Estill, Madison County, Kentucky, United States

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Biography

Sarah (Boone) Wilcoxson is an NSSAR Patriot Ancestor.
NSSAR Ancestor #: P341577
Rank: Patriotic Service

Sarah (Boone) Wilcoxson performed Patriotic Service in Pennsylvania in the American Revolution.

Sarah (Boone) Wilcoxson is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A001440.

Sarah Boone daughter of Squire Boone and Sarah Morgan, Quakers of Berks County, Pennsylvania, was born in 1724 in Pennsylvania. ^[1] She was the elder sister of Daniel Boone, famous frontiersman.

On 29 May 1742, Sarah Boone married married John Wilcockson in Exeter, Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States. ^[2]. John was a "Worldling", not a Quaker, so this union was "Out of Unity" with the Friends of Chalfont,New Britain, Colony of Pennsylvania. It was the first offense of this kind by a member of the Boone family. Eventually Sarah and her parents would sever all fellowship with that Meeting House. She died in the home of her daughter, Elizabeth Cutbirth^[3]

Children and their proof

Sarah bore 15 children to John, including: There is no source, including the Boone Society that agrees with this list. The ones bolded have proof per the source cited.

1. David Willcockson b: October 22, 1742 in Lancaster Co.,PA^[4]
2. Nancy Willcockson b: May 17, 1743 in Lancaster Co.,PA^[4]
3. John Willcockson , Jr. b: September 6, 1744 in Lancaster Co.,PA^[4]
4. Elizabeth Willcocksonb: 1745 in Lancaster Co.,PA^[3][4]
5. Isaac Willcockson b: 1751 in Lancaster Co.,PA^[4]
6. Israel Willcockson b: 1752 in Rowan Co.,NC
7. George T. Willcockson b: January 20, 1754 in Rowan Co.,NC
8. Daniel Willcockson b: March 13, 1754 in Rowan Co., NC^[3][4]
9. Samuel Willcockson b: February 24, 1755 in Rowan Co.,NC^[4]
10. William "Red" Willcockson b: 1757 in Rowan Co.,NC^[4]
11. Mary Willcockson b: ABT. 1760 in Rowan Co.,NC^[4]
12. Sarah Willcockson b: 1769 in Rowan Co.,NC
13. Rachel Willcockson b: 1770 in Rowan Co.,NC^[3][4]

Research Notes

1. See above for issues with children attributed to this family. Please do not add children without a primary source to prove the relationship.
2. Many trees on the internet have her with a middle name of Cassandra. There are no primary sources, nor any amount of research that has proven this middle name.

Greers, Boones and Wilcoxsons by Gary O. Hodges

So who am I? I am your cousin Gary Hodges. I am a Boone/Wilcoxson/Greer/Wilcoxson. I haven’t found any Wilson members in my direct line, but I hope you won’t hold that against me. But I am a Greer. I am a direct descendant of Sarah Boone Wilcoxson, her husband John Wilcoxson and two of their children; Samuel Wilcoxson and his sister Nancy Wilcoxson Greer. It’s through Nancy that I have my Greer blood line.

How is it that I am descended from two of Sarah and John’s children? Well, that is what can happen when second cousins marry. Their grandson Isaiah Wilcoxson married their great granddaughter Frances “Fanny” Greer. Isaiah and Fanny’s son Rev. William M. “Billy” Wilcoxson/Wilcox is my 2nd great grandfather. Through Sarah and John’s son Samuel my Wilcoxson/Wilcox family surname is unbroken to my mother Rosa Jean Wilcox Hodges. Through their daughter Nancy my line takes the Greer twist with their son William Greer and his daughter Fanny Greer.

When I started this article I tried to figure out just what to include. I decided to concentrate on our Wilcoxson and Greer families connection to the American Revolutionary War. Maybe I need to do another article that is more personal to my family line, post Rev. Billy Wilcox, but let’s concentrate on our families participation in the Revolutionary War.

Most of us have four documented Revolutionary War Patriot ancestors through the Boone/Wilcoxson Greer line. If you are a descendant of William Greer and his wife Hannah Cartwright then you have five.

The first Patriot Ancestors I want to talk about are Sarah Boone and her husband John Wilcoxson. Sarah was the first child of Squire Boone and Sarah Morgan. Her brother, Daniel Boone, was Squire and Sarah’s sixth child. But being a sister of Daniel Boone is not why Sarah is designated as a RW Patriot. Sarah and her husband John Wilcoxson were some of the earliest settlers of Fort Boonesborough in Kentucky County Virginia.

The Sarah and John Wilcoxson house in Mocksville, North Carolina in the 1980s, still standing over 200 years old.

She was at the fort when it was attacked in September of 1778 by over 400 Indians allied with the British and 12 Tory Militiamen. Since Sarah was at the fort during this 10 and a half day siege, she has been designated by the Sons of the American Revolution (SAR) and the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) as a Patriot Ancestor. Her designation is “Defender of the Fort”. Sarah’s husband John was not present at the time of the siege. John, a member of the Kentucky County Virginia Infantry, was away fighting Indians allied with the British. John’s designation is as a “Soldier” in the Revolutionary War.

Sources

1. ↑ "Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Births and Baptisms, 1520-1999", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6CTY-Z7C9 : Fri Oct 06 21:51:53 UTC 2023), Entry for Sarah Boone and Squire Boone, 7 Apr 1724.
2. ↑ "Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Marriage Records, 1512-1989", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6CYF-8923 : Thu Nov 30 10:41:02 UTC 2023), Entry for John Wilcockson and Squire Boone, 29 May 1742.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3} The Boone family: a genealogical history of the descendants of George and Mary Boone, who came to America in 1717 : containing many unpublished bits of early Kentucky history : also a biographical sketch of Daniel Boone, the pioneer, by one of his descendants, by Jesse Procter Crump, pages 56-57
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 4.9} Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed December 6, 2016), "Record of Sarah Boone Wilcoxson", Ancestor # A001440.

• ee also https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LBG7-B56
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39781990/sarah-wilcoxson
• Husband's DAR record A126458
• U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935
• Boone Family Genealogy Link
• Stephen Chinn, Family History of Daniel BOONE, web page, (http://www.kansasheritage.org/research/families/boone.html, 25 Mar 1994), "Electronic."
• DAR: North America Family Histories, section on 'The Boone Family' (DOB, DOD, Marriage date, list of 3 children: Daniel, Rachael, Elizabeth)
• Daniel James Duplantis, Brøderbund Software, Inc., World Family Tree Vol. 1, Ed. 1, (Release date: November 29, 1995), "CD-ROM," Tree #1521, Date of Import: Jan 16, 1999. (1995), "Electronic," Date of Import: May 7, 1999.'