Person:William Wyckoff (4)

1840 Warren Co., OH, census, p.211, Deerfield Twp., line 18, WILLIAM C. WIKOFF [near his father, Garrett] 11002 / 11011; 2 M & 1 F 20-30 (b. 1810-1820; unknown male, William, Sidney); 1 F 15-20 (b. 1820-1825; unknown female); 1 M & 1 F 5-10 (b. 1830-1835; unknown boy & girl); 1 M & 1 F under 5 (b. 1835-1840; unknown boy, Ada); 7 total [should read 8], 1 engaged in agriculture [should probably read 2].

1850 Hamilton Co., OH, census, p.425A, Symmes Twp., August 1, 1850, N. Brownell: 73/74 Wm. C. WYKOFF, 38 M, merchant, OH; Sidney, 36 F, OH; Therese A., 12 F, OH; Lawrence V.C., 9 M, OH. Therese and Lawrence attend school. 73/75 Mary JONES, 78 F, $3500 real, NJ; Sarah, 40 F, OH; Reason, 38 M, farmer, OH; Elizabeth 34 F, OH; Marion [Reason and Sarah's nephew], 3 M, OH.

ca. 1854-1860, William Cox WYCKOFF of Hamilton Co., OH, md. Elizabeth JONES [this marriage took place after Feb. 19, 1853, and before July 9, 1860]. --LDS IGI [Film 455108 has marriage date of ca. 1831; Film 2034690 has ca. 1835; both dates are incorrect].

1858 April 5, William C. WYKOFF was in Fountain Co., IN, and witnessed the will of Reason L. JONES, son of his wife's brother, Isaiah JONES.

1860 Hamilton Co., OH, census, p.265A, Symmes Twp., Montgomery P.O., July 9, 1860, H. McKown: 896/894, W.C. WYCUFF, 48 M, farmer, [blank] real, $500 personal, OH; Elizabeth, 49 F, OH; Theresa, 21 F, OH; L V E, 19 M, farm hand, OH, attends school; p.265B, Clara WHITTEN [who is this?], 9 F, OH; Samuel ARBUCHEL [who is this?], 71 M, retired farmer, $10,000 real, $1000 personal, PA; Mary, 66 F, PA.

1860 Hamilton Co., OH, census, p.270A, Symms Twp., P.O. Montgomery, July 11, 1860, H. McKown: 956/952, R. JONES, 52 M, farmer, $3500 real, $400 personal, OH; Sarah, 62 F, OH; Marion [Reason and Sarah's nephew], 13 M, OH.

1862 April 20. William Wyckoff wrote his brother-in-law Joel L. Jones: "Dear Brother / After my respects to you and yours I will inform you that we are all well at present. hoping when you receive these few lines you may be enjoying the same blessing. we have had a very wet backward spring. we have had only one week of good weather this spring for farming. we are not done sowing our oats yet. we have a fine prospect of fruit of all kinds. wheat look[s] very promising. we would like to come out and see you but I cannot at this time as Verner is in the army and there is no one to do anything for me but myself. I received a letter from Verner last week. they were all well. he says he is well sati[s]fied. He is in the 4. O. V. Cavarly [sic], Col. Kennet, Lieutentant Col. Henry Birdsell. They are in Mitchells Division of the Army in Alabama. the last account they were at Huntsville. Verner says there is quite a strong union Feeling in that section of the country. he think[s] they can whip them after a while but they are so treatrous [sic] you can tell but little by their talk. I hope the war will soon end. But if a majority of our Democratic friends had their wish it would never end until South would whip the North. I am sorry to say that you and I have got relitives that are Strong Southern Sympathyser and it is the failing of most of the Democrats. we have written several times to your son but I have got no answer. if you have heard from him rit[e] and let us know for we are anxious to hear from him. I hear the rgt [regiment] he joined was at the Battle at Pittsburg. they are a bringing a great many of the wounded soldiers to camp Dennison near Mamusville located on the Lands of Buckingham and Price near Kuglers Mills. write us soon as this come to hand and tell us how you are at getting along and what your opinion of the Crises is. I would like to have a talk with you as its results. Rite and give me your opinion. I must close. It is near night rite soon. give my love to the children. no more at present, but remain your affectionate brother. / [signed] Wm C Wyckoff" [note on back from Joel's sister:] "Dear Brother / We have not forgotten you. we often think about you and wish we were nearer to you. how often I would visit you and your little family Joel. I think you had better sell off your property and come into this country. perhaps it would be better for you and your children. Tighlman wanted you to do so. come and see us. perhaps you will be better sati[s]fied. the times are hard. we all work hard and that is about all we get in its ___. soon let us hear from you. we are all well. hope you are the same. write soon. I must close. / [signed] Sarah Jones."

1863 July 22, "At Home" [Symmes Twp., Hamilton Co., OH]. Ada Wyckoff wrote her cousin Tighlman Jones: "We have had some very exciting times here within the past week. As our arch enemy the horse thief John Morgan visited us. He did not get as far up as our house. But such a skedadling among the men and horses you never seen. Every man took his horses and run / After it was all over it was kind of laughable to hear those grumble that had such strong sympathies with the south. Ha ha."

1863 July 26. Receiving permission to enter Kentucky but instructed not to cross the Ohio River, General John Hunt Morgan crossed over into Indiana and moved into Ohio, skirting Cincinnati which went into a panic. Pursued by cavalry and militia, he was captured near New Lisbon, OH, July 26, 1863. <http://www.civilwarhome.com/morganbio.htm> See contemporary articles reproduced from Harper's Weekly, including one datelined Cincinnati, July 23, 1863, the day after Ada's letter to Tighlman. <http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1863/john-morgan-raiders.htm>

1863 Dec. 13, Mason, Warren Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff wrote her cousin Tighlman Jones: "Oh! Tighlman have you seen Pa yet / he is at Bridge port [Alabama] or was the last time we heard from him / he is with the Sutter of the ninth Kentucky* regt. / Find him if you possibly can / he will be so glad to see you / Those that have seen him lately say he is looking so well / better than he ever did. So find him if possible."

• The 9th KY Cavalry was mustered out of service Sept. 11, 1863. The 9th KY Infantry was mustered out of service Dec. 15, 1864.

1864 Jan. 21, Mason, Warren Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff wrote her cousin Tighlman Jones: "We got a letter from Pa last week / he said he was looking for you to see him. I don't know why it is he don't get hardly any letters from us and I write regular every two weeks. He thinks we don't write to him but I do / so does ma and a great many of his friends do too."

1864 April 4, 16 Mile Stand, Hamilton Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff wrote her cousin Tighlman Jones: "Pa looks better since he came home than he has for several years."

William Cox Wyckoff appears to have enlisted for 100 days but there's no record of his service; he has not been found, any spelling, with either OH or KY regiments in the Civil War records at Ancestry.com or other Internet sources. Although Ada wrote on Dec. 13th that he was with the 9th KY, he was more likely with the 9th OH in the 2nd Battalion that formed at Camp Dennison near the Wyckoff home, Nov. 6, 1863.

1864 July 12, Cedar Villa, Hamilton Co., OH: Ada Wyckoff wrote her cousin Tighlman Jones: "Uncle Reason and Pa are pulling flax this morning. We had a flax pulling* Saturday evening, but they did not get it quite all pulled. I do wish you could have seen us, we had the gayest time imaginable. I never saw any flax growing untill this."

• Pulling flax through large hetchels (also known as hatchels or heckels) to separate the fibers followed harvesting the plants, soaking them to soften the stems (usually in a nearby creek or stream), then putting them through a flax break to begin the process of separating the fibers, all of which was hard, difficult work that men had to do. Only after the flax pulling that Ada refers to, could the women begin working with the flax by pulling it through smaller and finer hetchels to begin the process of turning it into yarn for knitting or linen thread for weaving. Ada's statement that she'd never seen flax plants grown before 1864 suggests a reference to the shortage of cloth during the Civil War.

1866 Dec. 16, Sunday Morning. Ada Wyckoff wrote her uncle Joel L. Love: "I am in the store a great deal since we moved up here. Pa and Loney are neither of them so closely confined now, as they can both leave at once, and I can attend the store, / Pa says to tell you they are doing a very fair business."

1868 Dec. 29, Sixteen Mile Stand, Hamilton Co., OH. Ada Hopkins wrote her uncle Joel L. Jones: "Well uncle if you were here this evening you would see rather a small family gathered around the fireside, just uncle Reason and I here by ourselves / now I expect you begin to wonder where Aunt Sarah is and how it happens uncle and I are here by ourselves. This fall uncle Reason, aunt Sarah and I moved down here on the farm / left Pa and Ma up at (?)Mutontown / it was too hard for uncle to go back and forth this winter and the house work was too hard for aunt so I came with them. Two weeks ago I took a severe cold which made me very sick and I had to go home / while I was there aunt Sarah exposed herself too much and took a severe cold and distress in her back and shoulders, so Ma came down and took her home and left uncle some four days all alone / I am better so that I came back yesterday but I am not able to do very much / I am weak yet, but I can be company for uncle, and attend to the cooking, / Aunt Sarah is a great deal better / she wanted to come home yesterday but we think she had better stay another week, / Pa and Ma will come back in the Spring as Mr Baxter has sold the property and gives possession the first of March / I don’t know what business Pa intends going into when he quits there."

1870 Hamilton Co., OH, census, Symmes Twp., p.734, P.O. Montgomery, June 28, 1870, James I. Ross: 48/49, William WIKOFF, 56 M W, clerk, $2100 real, OH; Elizabeth, 59 F W, keeps house, OH; Ada W. HOPKINS, 30 F W, seamstress, OH; Reason JONES, 64 M W, retired farmer, OH; Luella JONES, 18 F W, at school, IL; William S. PERKINS [Luella's nephew], 10 M W, at school, TX. Luella, William attend school. [Marion was in Putnam Co., IN.]

1870 Nov. 30, Will of Francis M. JONES filed March 13, 1871, Hamilton Co., OH, Box 25, Case 15194 --In the name of the Benevolent Father of all I FRANCIS M JONES of the Township of Symmes County of Hamilton and State of Ohio do make and Publish this my last will and testament First it is my will that my just debts and all Charges be Paid out of my Estate item I give and devise All the Residue of My Estate to ELIZABETH H WIKOFF My Aunt To be to her and her heirs for Ever Provided that She Sees My unckle REASON L JONES is Properly Provided for during his Natural life item I appoint and Make unckle WM. WIKOFF Executor of this My last will and testament in testimony hereof I have hereunto Set My hand and Seal this the thirtieth day of November 1870 [signed] FRANK M JONES { seal } Signed and Acknowledged by said FRANCIS M JONES as his last will and testament in our Presence and Signed by us in his Presence [signed] Helen W HARPER [signed] LUELLA JONES

1880 Hamilton Co., OH, census, p.572B, Symmes Twp., June 8, 1880, W.B. Cunningham: 101/102, William WIKOFF, W M 68, md., farmer, OH NJ NJ; Sydney,* W F 65, wife, md., keeping house, OH England, NJ; Ada HOPKINS, W F 41, dau., widowed or divorced [column checked but not specified], at home, OH OH OH; Resin JOHNS, W M 72, brother-in-law, single, retired, OH OH OH.

• The appearance of this name is very strange because SYDNEY JONES was WILLIAM's first wife; she died ca. 1853-1860 when her children were young, and WILLIAM md. her sister, ELIZABETH JONES, who raised SYDNEY's children.

"16 Mile Stand / Sept 25th [1886] / Dear Cousin Jane / With a sad heart I will try to write a few lines. Ma and I are alone in the world. Dear Pa went to rest the 11th of this month / He was only sick three days / Just a general prostration of his whole system and he had been troubled for several years with something like Brights disease / all together worked on an already feeble constitution. / Oh Jane I cant write any more / I cant write any more / I cant think it was so sudden so unexpected to us. But we have this assurance / He is happy in his Fathers home above / Write soon / Love to Lillice and yourself. / As ever / Ada W Hopkins" Correspondence from the family letters and papers of Jane Love and her cousin, Lillice Jones Harper, courtesy John, Danny, and Dave Harper in 2001 and 2004, transcribed by Brenda Boyer

A group photograph believed to be Ada Wyckoff Hopkins, her aunt and step-mother, Elizabeth Jones Wyckoff, Ada's father, William C. Wyckoff, and Ada's uncle, Reason L. Jones at http://hometown.aol.com/chloeqcumber/Jones-Love2.html

1. ↑ LDS IGI (International Genealogical Index)
   Film 447839, ref. 87965.

   William Cox WYCKOFF b. Feb. 2, 1812, of Warren Co., OH, son of Garret P. WYCKOFF and Phebe COX

2. ↑ Union Cemetery records, Symmes Township, Hamilton Co., OH
   Section 2, Lot 53, Space 2.