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John Dingman Wilcox

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John Dingman Wilcox

Birth
Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, USA
Death
19 Jun 1922 (aged 79)
Archer, Madison County, Idaho, USA
Burial
Archer, Madison County, Idaho, USA Add to Map
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Oldest son and fourth child of Samuel Allen Wilcox and Martha Bolton Parker, John Dingman was a valiant pioneer along with his wife Mary Theodocia Savage, whom he married in Paris, Bear Lake, Idaho on 23 August 1865. Their children: John Elbert, David Oswell, Samuel Orris, Lucy Abigail, Martha Elnora, Joseph Ezra (infant), Adam Vernile, Mary Malinda, and Leo Boyd Wilcox (infant).

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.
Oldest son and fourth child of Samuel Allen Wilcox and Martha Bolton Parker, John Dingman was a valiant pioneer along with his wife Mary Theodocia Savage, whom he married in Paris, Bear Lake, Idaho on 23 August 1865. Their children: John Elbert, David Oswell, Samuel Orris, Lucy Abigail, Martha Elnora, Joseph Ezra (infant), Adam Vernile, Mary Malinda, and Leo Boyd Wilcox (infant).

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.

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