Our Family Tree

in hh 3-3 as W. B. M. P. H. Nickleson, Age: 34, Male, Mechanic, $100, TN; Eliza, Age: 26, Female, TN; Mary E. E., Age: 6, Female, IL; John G.W., Age: 3, Male, TX; J's H. C.,, Age: 6/12, Male, TX; Sarah Young, Age: 16, Female, IL; Harriett Young, Age: 8, Female, IL; Mary J. Young, Age: 1, Female, TX.

"He [Benjamin Carroll Wilks] met and married Miss Harriet Young in the year ’56. They were at a camp meeting when they met. When they married she was fourteen and he was twenty-eight. She owned 300 acres of land, had a few horses and a big bunch of cattle. They had thirteen children. He named the first one John for his father John. He died with bold hives when he was eight days old. Then a girl Ellen. She also died of bold hives when she was two weeks old. Then the third child was Samuel Theodore. He had pretty brown hair blue and brown speckled eyes, short and rather potty. The next as Benjiman Franklin. He mad a short stocky man with brown hair and dark blue eyes. Then five was George, who was small with brown hair and hazel eyes. A girl Anne came next. She was medium size with black hair and dark brown eyes. Then (7) Edmon who was medium tall with blue eyes and sandy hair rather fat. A girl (8) Nora, small, with reddish brown hair and blue eyes. A boy (9) Lee who was medium tall with black hair and real dark brown eyes, handsome. A boy (10) Claud Rivers, tall brown curly hair and blue eyes. A boy (11) Rufus Washington, tall, brown hair and real blue eyes, or deep blue eyes. A girl (12) Bessie, who died with whooping cough when she was 13 months old. Last (13) a boy William Wesley, short, brown hair and hazel eyes.

in hh 15-15 as BENJAMIN C. Wilks 45 farmer $800-$200 AL, HARRIET E. 28 IL, Samuel T. 10 TX, Benjamin P. 7 TX, George Clinton 5 TX, Allsey A. 4 TX, James E. 1 TX; Louisa Caver 24 MS; p. 377

in hh 514-514 as Wilks, Benjamin F., Head, White, Male, Born: Sep 1862, Age: 37, Single, TX AL IL, Farmer, Home: owner, free, farm# 527; Benjamin C., Father, White, Male, Born: Aug 1827, Age: 72, Married: 41 yrs, AL MO Ireland; Martha, Mother, White, Female, Born: Aug 1841, Age: 58, Married: 41 yrs, Children born: 13, Children living: 10, IL TN TN; Claudie, Brother, White, Male, Born: Aug 1876, Age: 23, Single, TX AL IL, Farmer, Home: farm# 528; William, Brother, White, Male, Born: Aug 1884, Age: 16, Single, TX AL IL, At school: 5 mo. All could read write & speak English.

in family 54 as B.C. [Benjamin Carroll] Wilks, Head, White, Male, Age: 82, Married, AL KY KY; Harriate [Harriet], Wife, White, Female, Married, Age: 66, IL TN TN; C.R. [Claude Rivers], Son, White, Male, Age: 34, Single, TX AL IL; W. W. [William Wesley], Son, White, Male, Age: 25, Married, TX AL IL; Erica [Erie], Daughter-in-law, White, Female, Age: 28, Married, KY KY KY; Carl [Karl Glynn], Son [Grandson], White, Male, Age: 3 , Single, TX TX KY; Vane, Son [Grandson], White, Male, Age: 10 mo, Single, TX TX KY.

on farm near Oden Chapel

tombstone inscription: Thy Will be Done; Harriet; Wife of; B.C. Wilks; Born; Aug. 14, 1841; Died; Mar. 29, 1911; of such is the; Kingdom of Heaven; WILKS.