John had great love for his family and wrote a lengthy letter to share those feeling and his love for the gospel of Jesus Christ with his family shortly before he died. Here are a couple of short excerpts:
To my children, grand, and great grandchildren... for I wish to leave my blessing with them and my testimony concerning the great plan of the Gospel of our Father in Heaven and the part our Elder Brother took in carrying it to fruition....
I wish to express some of my feelings toward my children, including all of my posterity. I feel that they are a heritage from the Lord to me. I feel thankful that they are as good as they are, not one abnormal so far among them, but all perfect in body and sound in mind, that is possessing intellects capable of being educated in all the knowledge of the world and in the sciences pertaining to it, and also the knowledge of the universe and its variants, but most of all the knowledge of God, the framer of the world on which their lot has been cast, ... All these things are within their reach ... And it is my earnest prayer and hope that not one of them will fail to make good and win the prize and reach the goal they set out for.
This is how he wished to be remember -- a man who loved God and his family, and wished to be with all of them throughout all eternity.
John had great love for his family and wrote a lengthy letter to share those feeling and his love for the gospel of Jesus Christ with his family shortly before he died. Here are a couple of short excerpts:
To my children, grand, and great grandchildren... for I wish to leave my blessing with them and my testimony concerning the great plan of the Gospel of our Father in Heaven and the part our Elder Brother took in carrying it to fruition....
I wish to express some of my feelings toward my children, including all of my posterity. I feel that they are a heritage from the Lord to me. I feel thankful that they are as good as they are, not one abnormal so far among them, but all perfect in body and sound in mind, that is possessing intellects capable of being educated in all the knowledge of the world and in the sciences pertaining to it, and also the knowledge of the universe and its variants, but most of all the knowledge of God, the framer of the world on which their lot has been cast, ... All these things are within their reach ... And it is my earnest prayer and hope that not one of them will fail to make good and win the prize and reach the goal they set out for.
This is how he wished to be remember -- a man who loved God and his family, and wished to be with all of them throughout all eternity.
Family Members
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Malinda Wilcox Cook
1838–1888
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Lucy Wilcox
1840–1840
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Sarah Jane Wilcox Austin
1841–1931
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Asenath Viola Wilcox Passey
1845–1927
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Adam Wilcox
1847–1917
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Samuel Allen Wilcox Jr
1850–1908
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Joseph Wilcox
1851–1936
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Silas McCaslin Wilcox
1854–1917
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Phoebe Roseltha Wilcox Berrey-Christie
1857–1925
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Boyd Extine Wilcox
1859–1895
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David Almearn Wilcox
1862–1946
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Anna Laura Wilcox Calton
1874–1948
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Margarett Maren Wilcox Brems
1875–1967
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James Alfred Wilcox
1877–1949
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Bertha Charlotte Wilcox Fjelsted
1879–1925
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Martha Cordelia Wilcox Stephens
1881–1970
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Mary Inger Wilcox Calton
1884–1969
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Ross Ernest Wilcox
1886–1963
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Helen Mar Wilcox Yates
1888–1968
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Ole Abel Wilcox
1890–1914
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