In Whitestown, Oneida Co., N. Y., Dec. 10, 1853, of paralysis, Reuben Wilcox, in the 92d year of his age.
Mr. Wilcox was born at Middletown, Ct., in 1762. During the Revolutionary War, he was called into service a short time, for which he received a pension. In 1792 he removed from Middletown to Whitestown, N. Y. Passing through the present city of Utica, which had then only one framed house, he found his way by the aid of marked trees to the place where he spent the last sixty-one years of his life, and where he died.
As a religious man, Mr. Wilcox was distinguished for conscientiousness and tenacity of what he considered to be Bible truth. During a revival meeting among the Congregationalists at Middletown, in 1779, he became a subject of Divine Grace, though he did not at the time make a public profession of religion. Soon after his removal to Whitestown, he became a Baptist in principle, and a few years later a Sabbath-keeper. About thirty years ago, he was baptized and joined the First Seventh-day Baptist Church in Brookfield of which he remained a member until his death. He received baptism at the hands of Eld. Wm. B. Maxson, by whom his funeral sermon was preached.
