City: Elizabethton<\/p>\n
WILCOX, David Powell<\/strong>, minister of the gospel; born Unicoi Co., Tenn., June 8, 1830; Scotch-Irish descent; son of John and Letitia (Silson) WILCOX<\/strong>; paternal grandparents James and Mary (Doan) WILCOX<\/strong>, maternal grandparents Steven and Mary (Pierce) SILSON<\/strong>; received common school education and in early youth was a saddler and harness maker; married Lucy Janes LUTTRELL<\/strong> Dec. 25, 1849; wife was descendant of Randolph and Lee families, Va.; Democrat; at one time made the race against Hon. A. A. TAYLOR<\/strong> as Democratic nominee for Congress; was Postmaster under Andrew Johnson and has formerly held the offices of Marshal, Alderman and Mayor of Elizabethton; was at one time Justice of the Peace and Tax Assessor; entered the Union army in 1861 as private, wounded in 1863, promoted to First Sergeant, then First Lieutenant, then Captain of Militia; formerly engaged in merchandise and trading and is now a minister of the gospel of the M. E. church, South.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City: Elizabethton WILCOX, David Powell, minister of the gospel; born Unicoi Co., Tenn., June 8, 1830; Scotch-Irish descent; son of John and Letitia (Silson) WILCOX; paternal grandparents James and Mary (Doan) WILCOX, maternal grandparents Steven and Mary (Pierce) SILSON; received common school education and in early youth was a saddler and harness maker; married Lucy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,4415,814,4419],"tags":[1322,1323,448,1321,150,1108],"class_list":{"0":"post-2520","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-carter","7":"category-surname-w","8":"category-unicoi","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-doan","11":"tag-luttrell","12":"tag-pierce","13":"tag-silson","14":"tag-taylor","15":"tag-wilcox","16":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15317,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520\/revisions\/15317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}