Q. M. Sgt. Vernon O. (C) Wilcox

Q. M. Sgt. Vernon O. (C) Wilcox

       From the 1860 Census #720/4823
Name - Vernon Wilcox
Aged - 24 Years
Born - New York
Home in 1860 - Plato, Kane Co., Ill.
Occupation - Farmer

       From the Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Illinois

Co. B       36th Ill. Dragoons

Re-Designaged as,

Co. K       15th Ill. Cav.

Clinton's Rangers

   Enlisted, Aug. 17, 1861.

        Notice: Sept. 11, 1861 issue Elgin's Weekly Gazette.
   With the Fox River Regiment, in camp below Aurora, all our readers are well acquainted.  From the moment of its conception to the present hour it has gone right on to a full and complete success.  It is now 1200 strong and will, no doubt, be ordered to St. Louis in a few days there to be equipped and put into the Grand Army.

   Residence, Plato, Ill's.
   Mustered In, Sept. 23, 1861 as a Sgt.
   Remarks, Transferred to V.R.C. April 1863.

8th Veteran Reserve Corps

      Known Actions;
 Ft. Henry, Tenn.,       Feb. 7, 1862
Ft. Donnelson, Tenn.       Feb. 11, 1862
Shiloh, Tenn.       April 7, 1862
Briton's Lane       Sept. 1, 1862

       From the Post #49 Files
   Joined GAR Veteran's Post #49 April 8, 1898

       Obit: May 28, 1919 issue The Elgin Daily Courier.

   Funeral services of the late Vernon O. Wilcox will be held tomorrow afternoon at 1:30 o'clock in the Sternberg apartments in Main street, Dundee.  Services at the home will be in charge of the Rev. B.M. Will of Dundee and the G.A.R. Post of Elgin.  The Elgin Masonic lodge, No. 117, will have charge of the services at the grave at Bluff City cemetery.  Masons are invited to attend the service in a body.

       From the 1956 Kane Co. Honor Roll

Buried at Bluff City Cemetery in Elgin, Ill.
Location - Lot 179, Section 3
Issued a Gov't Headstone

       From the Warner Co. Ledgers
   Head Stone ordered July 7, 1919 from the Warner Monument Co. of Dundee.

Used with permission Dan Mallett

 Many members of Post #49 sewed watch faces to their ribbons to show they were from Elgin.