Wilson Maddox
1810 ~ 1883

  According to the family Bible, Wilson was born June 11, 1810.  Was he named after Mr. Wilson with whom his father did business/land transactions in Fleming Co., KY?  I am not aware of any other Wilsons in this family in earlier generations.

     Wilson was fifteen when his father died in 1825 Lewis Co., KY. 

     He was living with his mother in the 1830 census of Clermont Co., OH.  Where did he go after this?

     There was an interesting situation that arose in Stoddard Co., MO, in 1883.  Grant Maddox, grandson of Wilson's brother, William who was still living, moved to Stoddard Co. shortly after this time.  An Ann Maddox was appointed guardian of her minor children, Millie, Jefferson and Alonzo Maddox, who had to have been born 1869 or after.  Her deceased husband was John W. Maddox of "Brackenridge" County, KY.  [Source:  Stoddard Co., MO, Estate Record 473C]  

     Because of the spelling, researchers have been unsure whether the clerk meant Bracken Co., KY, where Wilson's brother William had raised his children, or Breckenridge Co.   There was no John Maddox in Bracken Co. after 1850; he ~ William's son ~ reappeared in Douglas Co., IL, where his father had moved to, and may have been killed in the Civil War. 

     Apparently the John in Breckenridge Co., KY, was also called Wilson.

     The 1850 census of Breckenridge Co., KY, listed Wilson Maddox, 43, b. VA, with wife Betsy [Hall} in HH 625.  This would make him born about 1807.  The family Bible is a little bit off on dates, so this would be close enough.  His children were:

Mildred A. 14 (b. 1836)
Edmonia 13 (b. 1837)
Mary 11 (b. 1839)
Henry 10 (b. 1840)
Martha E. 7 (b. 1843)
Laura 5 (b. 1845)
Nancy 2 (b. 1848)
Jane O. 6/12 (b. 1850)
William P. Hall, 20
Sarah Hall, 28

In Household #630 nearby is Ludwell Foote who would be appointed executor of John W. Maddox's estate in 1883.

     The 1860 census of Breckenridge Co., KY, listed Jno W. Maddox, 53, b. VA, with wife Elizabeth [Hall] in HH 592.  These were his children:

Laura 15 (b. 1845)
Nancy 11 (b. 1849)
James 10 (b. 1850)
John 8 (b. 1852)
Sarah 30 (b. 1830)
William Carwyle, 24

     The 1870 census of Breckenridge Co., KY, listed Jno W. Maddox, 64, b. VA, with wife Elizabeth [Hall].  His only child was Fanny 8 (b. 1862).  John had died.   Millie, Jefferson and Alonzo would have been b. after 1869.  Perhaps Elizabeth died and he remarried to Ann.  I have been unable to find this family anywhere in the US in the 1880 census.

     I believe John Wilson Maddox's son, Alonzo Maddox, was born July 7, 1881 in Kentucky, married Mabel Sar, and died December 1968 at Grants Pass, Josephine Co., OR.  Wife Mabel died 1975 in Multnomah Co., OR.