Reverend Rev Edmund Garvin Wilcox

1779 - 1836  (57 years)

• Name	Rev Edmund Garvin Wilcox  [1]
  Title	Reverend
  Birth	1779	Amherst, Amherst, Virginia, USA   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Religion	He became one of the leading progenitors of Methodism in western Kentucky.
  Death	23 Dec 1836	Princeton, Caldwell, Kentucky, USA   [1]
  Burial	Wilcox Family Cemetery, Princeton, Caldwell, Kentucky, USA   [1]
  Person ID	I13144	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

  Father	Edmund Wilcox, MD,   b. 1750, Amherst, Amherst, Virginia, USA d. 23 May 1785, Virginia, USA (Age 35 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Christiana Garvin,   b. 1748, Amherst County, Virginia, USA d. 23 Dec 1838, Caldwell County, Kentucky, USA (Age 90 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	Abt 1779
  	Never Married
  Family ID	F8790	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Anna Rawlings,   b. 21 Oct 1792, Bourbon County, Kentucky, USA d. 1823, Caldwell County, Kentucky, USA (Age 30 years)
  Marriage	2 Jul 1809	Millersburg, Bourbon, Kentucky, USA
  Family ID	F4665	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

  Family 2	Sarah wilcox
  Family ID	F4666	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 1779 - Amherst, Amherst, Virginia, USA Marriage - 2 Jul 1809 - Millersburg, Bourbon, Kentucky, USA Death - 23 Dec 1836 - Princeton, Caldwell, Kentucky, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S8762] Find a Grave: WILCOX Edmund G 1779-1836, Rev Edmund Garvin Wilcox. Rev. Edmund Garvin Wilcox was an out of wedlock child of Christiaan Garvin and Dr. Edmund Wilcox, a wealthy man in Virginia. They had another son, John Wilcox also. They never married. Dr. Wilcox left money in his will for Christiaan to take care of herself and their and two sons Two years before Dr. Wilcox died, he married Susanna Bolling. There was a courtroom battle over the will and Christiana lost. Two other people, both men, sued about something else, but lost to Wilcox's wife. Christiana eventually married Peter Cartwright, father of the famous preacher, Rev. Peter Cartwright. Rev. Wilcox married 1st, Anna Rollings and 2nd, Sarah _____. He became one of the leading progenitors of Methodism in western Kentucky. There used to be a marker where his grave is which was placed by his son, Isaac Newton Wilcox. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/88892853/edmund-garvin-wilcox