Person:Sylvester Wilkinson (2)

1870 Sonoma Co., CA, p.421A, Santa Rosa, P.O. Santa Rosa, July 19, 1870, J.W. Hartman: Sylvester, 22 M W, IA; with his parents and family, 422/405, John and Harriet WILKINSON.

1873 December 24. The Rite of Holy Matrimony Was Celebrated Between S. Wilkinson of Denton, Denton Co. Tex and P.J. Paine of Denton, Denton Co. Tex on December 24, 1873, at W.H. Scotts by J.C. Hawk. Witness Giles ___ (Hammer? or Hammet?). Witness Nerva Wilkinson (probably Sylvester's sister, Minerva). --transcription courtesy Cyd Pierce, e-mail, May 18, 2000

1880 Comanche Co., TX, census, p.102C, 4th District (E.D. 31), June 2, 1880, Thomas O. Moore: 29/29, SILVESTER WILKINSON, M 32, head, farmer, IA USA OH; Pricilla, F 32, wife, keeping house, MO KY USA; Effie, F 5, dau, at home, TX IA MO; Mirtie, F 4, dau, at home, TX IA MO; Lela, F 3, dau, at home, TX IA MO; Walter, M 1, son, at home, TX IA MO; Lina WILKINSON, F 28, sis-in-law, md., keeping house, OH USA USA; Moses, M 36, brother, well boarer, md., IN USA OH; Rufus PAYNE, M 12, st-son, works on farm, TX IL MO; Willie F. PAYNE, M 11, st-son, at home, TX IL MO; Wm. H. SCOTT, M 59, father-in-law, widowed, minester, KY KY KY; EVIN LOVE, M W 30, cousin,** single, laborer, CANADY USA USA.

• • Sylvester and Moses Wilkinson's mother was Harriet Bell Jones, dau. of Evan W. Jones; Evan Love's mother was Bell's sister, Mary Jane; therefore Evan Love and Sylvester and Moses Wilkinson were first cousins.

1889 March 21, son Carl Wilkinson was b. in Decatur, Wise Co., TX.

1900 Washita Co., OK Territory, census, p.73A, Elk Twp., June 1, 1900, Hiram M. West: 9/9, SYLVESTER WILKINSON, head, W M, Nov 1847, 52, md. 26 yrs., IA OH OH, farmer, owns farm free of mortgage, farm schedule #5; Priscilla, wife, W F, May 1848, mother of 12 children, 9 living, MO KY TN; Walter, son, W M, Feb 1879, 21, single, TX IA MO, farmer; John, son, W M, Jan 1881, 19, TX IA MO, farmer; Clytie, dau, W F, July 1885, 14, TX IA MO, TX IA MO, TX IA MO; Len, son, W M, May 1887, 13, TX IA MO, TX IA MO; Carl, son, W M, Mar 1889, 11, TX IA MO, TX IA MO; Belle, dau, W F, June 1892, 7, TX IA MO.

1901 August 1. Homestead Certificate No. 4554 / Application 4034 / Whereas There has been deposited in the GENERAL LAND OFFICE of the United States a Certificate of the Register of the Land Office at Oklahoma, Oklahoma, whereby it appears that, pursuant to the Act of Congress approved 20th May, 1862, "To secure Homesteads to Actual Settlers on the Public Domain," and the acts supplemental thereto, the claim of Sylvester Wilkinson has been established and duly consummated, in conformity to law, for the North West quarter of Section twenty three in Township eight North of Range eighteen West of Indian Meridian in Oklahoma, containing one hundred and sixty acres according to the Offical Plat of the Survey of the said Land, returned to the GENERAL LAND OFFICE by the Surveyor General: / Now know ye, That there is, therefore, granted by the UNITED STATES unto the said Sylvester Wilkinson the tract of Land above described; To have and to hold the said tract of Land, with the appurtenances thereof, unto the said Sylvester Wilkinson and to his heirs and assigns forever. / In testimony whereof I, William McKinley, President of the United States of America, have caused these letters to be made Patent, and the seal of the General Land Office to be hereunto affied. / Given under my hand, at the City of Washington, the first day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and one and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty sixth. / By the President William McKinley / By (difficult to read) F. M. McKeane, Secretary / C. (difficult to read middle initial) Bursh, Recorder of the General Land Office. / Recorded Oklahoma, Vol. 50, Page 212 / This instrument was filed for record on the 13th day of July, 1903, and recorded in book 1, page 248, at 10 50 o'clock, am. --transcription courtesy Cyd Pierce, e-mail, May 18, 2000

1910 census

1911. Tuck was a representative from Washita County in Oklahoma City. --Cyd Pierce, e-mail, March 3, 2000. Tuck raised sheep and deer. --from Wilene's family notes

1920 Washita Co., OK, census, p.31A, Rainey Twp., ED 194, Jan. 14, 1920, William R. Patterson: 84/90, SILVESTA WILKINSON, head, owns farm free of mortgage, M W 72, md., IA IL IL, occupation, none; Priscilla, wife, F W 71, MO -- --, occupation, none; Jonnie, son, M W 37, single, TX IA MO, salesman, hardware store. Walter, p.1A

Obituary / Sylvester Wilkinson was borned in Iowa on November the 25th, 1847, where he lived until the age of 18 years when he went with his parents to California in the year 1865, making the trip in a wagon, his stay in California was brief leaving there in 1867 [he was enumerated with his parents and family in Sonoma Co., CA, in 1870] coming to Texas where he was married to Mrs. P. J. Paine on Dec. the 24th, 1873, to this union was borned 11 children of whome 7 are still living. He moved from Texas to Washita County Oklahoma in November 1892, settling on his present homestead one mile west of Rocky. / Mr. Wilkinson who was always known to his many friends as Uncle Tuck was a pioneer of Washita County having went through privitations and hard times incident to settleing up a new country. He was kind and generous to all and always ready to help those in need, and his presents will ever be missed by those who knew him. / A Friend. --transcription courtesy Cyd Pierce, e-mail, May 18, 2000

Card of Thanks / We wish to thank our many friends and relatives for their help and loving kindness during the death and burial of our loving Father, S. Wilkinson. We also wish to especially thank the Odd Fellows, Rebekahs and Encampment for the beautiful floral offering. / Mrs. Effie Underwood / Mrs. R. H. Evans / Mr. Walter Wilkinson / Mr. John Wilkinson / Mrs. W. D. Whiteside / Mr. Carl Wilkinson / Mrs. J. C. Ward / Mr. W. P. Payne. --transcription courtesy Cyd Pierce, e-mail, May 18, 2000

My grandfather, Carl, had brothers named Walter and John (I'm not sure how many more). Walt married Aunt Ada, lived and died in Texas. Uncle John, we called "Pedro," he never married and lived his last years with my grandma & grandpa in Colorado. Grandpa had a sister named Clytie, who married a Walter WHITESIDE or WHITESIDES. I think they lived in Oklahoma. His sister, Belle, married a WARD. Belle and her husband, along with my grandpa & grandma homesteaded in Baca County, Colorado, about 1916. --Cyd Pierce, e-mail, February 20, 2000

Mother says that either Grandpa Carl was born in Jack County and brother John "Pedro" was born in Wise County -- or the other way around -- but it was all in the same house. Apparently, they built onto the house and it must have straddled the county line. So one was in one bedroom and the other was in the other bedroom. --Cyd Pierce, e-mail February 26, 2000

Tuck and PJ are buried in Grissom Cemetery, Washita Co., OK. Today, it is overgrown and unaccessible.

See photographs of Sylvester "Uncle Tuck" at http://members.aol.com/wilenesmth/wilkinsonphotos.html

descendant, Cyd Pierce <cydpierce@@voyager.net> descendant, Jack Dennis Ward <papersails-2@@verizon.net>