Family of Tilman Wilcoxen

Tilman & Matilda Wilcoxen, with their children
at the family home in Glen Flora, Texas,
 about 1917
(contributed by Carolyn Wilcoxen)

Tilman Wilcoxen
b. July 26, 1868, near Gessie, Vermillion County, Indiana
m. February 24, 1889, to Matilda Ella Ellen Dunivan/Dunavan at home by Rev. J. H. Martin, minister of the Gospel Church of Christ--Tilman Wilcoxen of Danville, Illinois, and Matilda Ellen Dunavan of Georgetown, Illinois, in Georgetown, by Eld. J. H. Martin in the presence of E. H. Dunavan and F. M. Breezeley (her brother & brother-in-law).
See marriage record here.
d. December 22, 1923, 3 miles east of Wharton, Wharton County, Texas

Matilda "Ella" Ellen Dunivan/Dunavan
b. December 22, 1865, 1/2 mile south of Lowe's Chapel Church, 7 miles   from Georgetown, Vermilion County, Illinois
d. March 21, 1947, in an El Campo, Texas, hospital, buried in Wharton, Texas

See family Bible records here.

CHILDREN of Tilman Wilcoxen and Matilda Ella Ellen Dunivan:

All of this generation, except child #10, were born on the same farm, bought the second year after Tilman and Matilda married in 1890. They lived there continually except one year when they lived on a neighbor's farm. In the fall of 1909 they sold the farm, and in March 1910 moved the whole family to El Campo, Wharton County, Texas, because Tilman suffered from rheumatism and the cold climate aggravated the condition. They lived west of Pierce on Pierce Estate in a house known as Brown house (but it was white), the first year in Texas. In 1911 started in rice farming north of Pierce, Pecha community.

1.     Elsie Golden Wilcoxen
b. December 14, 1889, on a farm near Perrysville, Indiana
m. December 14, 1915, Wharton County, Texas, to Arthur Allen Benner
d. October 25, 1978, buried El Campo, Wharton County, Texas

2.     Emma Gertrude Wilcoxen
b. July 30, 1891, on a farm north of Cromerville School, aka Lower Coalbranch
d. July 10, 1923, 3 miles east of Wharton, Texas, buried Wharton, Texas beside her parents

3.     Frankie Wilcoxen
b. January 21, 1893 (a twin, male)
d. July 21, 1893 (of dysentery), buried in Niccum cemetery, 7 miles east of Georgetown, Illinois

4.     Fannie Wilcoxen
b. January 21, 1893 (a twin, female)
d. July 23, 1893 (of dysentery), buried in Niccum cemetery, 7 miles east of Georgetown, Illinois

5.     Minnie Jane Wilcoxen
b. January 25, 1894
m. February 5, 1913, Wharton County, Texas, to Samuel Robert Shutte
d. October 20, 1973, buried El Campo, Wharton County, Texas

6.     Orten Bryan Wilcoxen
b. May 10, 1896
m. October 13, 1926, Wharton County, Texas, to Bessie Mae Brown
d. October 20, 1980, buried El Campo, Wharton County, Texas

7.     Arthur John Wilcoxen
b. February 12, 1899, Perrysville, Indiana
m. February 23, 1928, to Ivy Ethelyn Frankum
d. January 2, 1976, Gladewater, Texas, buried Wharton, Texas
See marriage record here.
See photos here.

8.     Anderson "Bill" Drexel Wilcoxen
b. February 21, 1901
m. September 28, 1929, Wharton County, Texas, to Mildred Danielson
d. November 17, 1987, Orange County, California (CDH)
Occupation:  vineyard keeper 

9.     Mildred Ann Wilcoxen
b. March 7, 1904
m. (1) September 18, 1922, to John Conrad Merritt
m. (2) to L. C. Barnhart
d. December 9, 1991

10.    Tilman Leo Wilcoxen
b. March 16, 1906, Perrysville, Indiana
m. September 1, 1927, to Gladys Morgan Salley
d. April 7, 1975, buried El Campo, Texas, ODHS Cemetery
Occupation:  worked for an oil company. At one time, lived in Brazil.

11.    Nina Ellen Wilcoxen
b. December 13, 1908
m. July 30, 1926, to Theodore Henry Lurker
d. January 17, 1966, Wharton County, Texas