Husband of Julia Ann Allred
Miner Wilcox was born in Ohio in 1834. He lived for several years in Nauvoo, Illinois and then came to Utah in 1847 when he was 12. Miner married Julia Ann Allred in Mt. Pleasant, Utah in 1860. They were called by LDS church leaders to help settle Bear Lake Valley. They traveled by covered wagon settling in Paris, Idaho in June 1864. The first year they lived in the covered wagon. Then Miner built a one room log cabin. A stranger came to the valley who was very sick. No one seemed to want to care for him, but Julia Ann said, “He is human being and has to have a place to stay and someone to care for him.” She and Miner gave him their bed and they took their babies and slept in the wagon. Julia Ann took care of him until he died. He was the first person buried in Paris Cemetery. In their first years in Paris, ID they had problems with the Indians lead by Chief Washakie. They had to careful watch their children as the Indians said they were after a white child before they left Bear Lake Valley. Miner participated in the Walker Indian war in 1855 and the Black Hawk war in 1856. He was active in Church serving as a member of the first High Council organized in Bear Lake County. He was a farmer.
They had many other trials in their lives. In 1882, Miner was called on an LDS Church mission to Tennessee. He was only able to serve 18 months because he contracted malaria. Because he was very sick, Julia Ann and a friend would wring bed sheets out of cold water and wrap him in them until his fever broke. Another trial was when their son Isaac was accidentally shot and killed while hunting ducks. The shock was so great on Julia Ann, who was pregnant, that she had to remain bedridden until she gave birth. In the fall of 1919, Miner and Julia Ann traveled to Nampa, ID to stay with one of their children for the winter. While there, he took sick and died in February 1920. His body was brought back to Paris for his funeral and burial.
Source: History of Bear Lake Pioneers, article by Ethel Findlay Jensen
Husband of Julia Ann Allred
Miner Wilcox was born in Ohio in 1834. He lived for several years in Nauvoo, Illinois and then came to Utah in 1847 when he was 12. Miner married Julia Ann Allred in Mt. Pleasant, Utah in 1860. They were called by LDS church leaders to help settle Bear Lake Valley. They traveled by covered wagon settling in Paris, Idaho in June 1864. The first year they lived in the covered wagon. Then Miner built a one room log cabin. A stranger came to the valley who was very sick. No one seemed to want to care for him, but Julia Ann said, “He is human being and has to have a place to stay and someone to care for him.” She and Miner gave him their bed and they took their babies and slept in the wagon. Julia Ann took care of him until he died. He was the first person buried in Paris Cemetery. In their first years in Paris, ID they had problems with the Indians lead by Chief Washakie. They had to careful watch their children as the Indians said they were after a white child before they left Bear Lake Valley. Miner participated in the Walker Indian war in 1855 and the Black Hawk war in 1856. He was active in Church serving as a member of the first High Council organized in Bear Lake County. He was a farmer.
They had many other trials in their lives. In 1882, Miner was called on an LDS Church mission to Tennessee. He was only able to serve 18 months because he contracted malaria. Because he was very sick, Julia Ann and a friend would wring bed sheets out of cold water and wrap him in them until his fever broke. Another trial was when their son Isaac was accidentally shot and killed while hunting ducks. The shock was so great on Julia Ann, who was pregnant, that she had to remain bedridden until she gave birth. In the fall of 1919, Miner and Julia Ann traveled to Nampa, ID to stay with one of their children for the winter. While there, he took sick and died in February 1920. His body was brought back to Paris for his funeral and burial.
Source: History of Bear Lake Pioneers, article by Ethel Findlay Jensen
Family Members
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Julia Minetta "Nettie" Wilcox Neibaur
1861–1955
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Isaac Francis Wilcox
1863–1889
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Eliza Jane "Janie" Wilcox Sparks
1866–1969
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Annie Elizabeth Wilcox Findlay
1868–1957
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Mary Volona Wilcox
1873–1923
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George Elmer Wilcox
1876–1968
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William Asa Wilcox
1879–1974
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Ernest Wilcox
1883–1966
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Elnora Wilcox Hymas
1889–1973
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