John Wilcox

1782 - 1842  (60 years)

• Name	John Wilcox  [1, 2]
  Birth	1782	Amherst County, Virginia, USA   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	7 Oct 1842	Princeton, Caldwell, Kentucky, USA   [1, 2]
  	Cause: Executed for murder
  	Hung for murdering a neighbor's son, James Rogers. Some say he was framed.
  Person ID	I30738	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	Sophia White,   b. Abt 1785, Kentucky, USA d. Princeton, Caldwell, Kentucky, USA
  Marriage	Abt 1813
  Family ID	F13780	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 1782 - Amherst County, Virginia, USA Death - Cause: Executed for murder - 7 Oct 1842 - Princeton, Caldwell, Kentucky, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Biographies and Histories

  Bio-WILCOX John John Wilcox

  
  

• Sources

  [S6810] Find a Grave: WILCOX John 1782-1842, John Wilcox. John Wilcox was the half brother of the famous Rev. Peter Cartwright. They shared the same mother, Christiaan/Christiana Garvin. Christiaan had two sons out of wedlock with Dr. Edmund Wilcox, a wealthy plantation owner in Virginia. Dr. Wilcox did not marry her and eventually married someone else. When Dr. Wilcox died he left funds to Christiaan Garvin for the care of his two sons, however a large court battle ensued and she lost to the wealthy wife of Dr. Wilcox. John was charged with murdering a neighbor's son, James Rogers. Neither John nor the Rogers family were well regarded in the area. John had a drinking problem which had ruined his reputation in the area. Many witnesses said he was so drunk the day James Rogers was shot there was no way he could have walked, let alone held a rifle and shot a man way out in a cornfield. He was found guilty of murder. Most believed he was framed because of his reputation for drinking. He wrote his last Will the day he was hung leaving everything to his wife, Sophia White Wilcox and two children, John Jr., and Nancy. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/88894385/john-wilcox [S12] Ancestry.com, Geneanet Community Trees Index, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT ; Date: 2022;).