Wilcox, Missouri

Immediately after this, Mr. Terhune put up a frame structure for both a grist and saw mill. In the fall of 1852, after the mill was running several months, there came a freeze, mush ice drifted down the Nodaway, and lodged above the dam, the river rose on account of the gorge, and washed out eighty feet around the end of the dam, the water running in the new channel eight feet deep. Mr. Terhune worked all winter, and stopped the wash around so that the mill run again, and was in excellent order. Mr. Terhune sold out his mill in 1853 to Rankin Russell, who was the founder of Quitman.

Passage source: The History of Nodaway County, Missouri, Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, Etc., Biographical Sketches of Its Citizens, published 1882.

Mr. Terhune then removed to Andrew County and went on to his large farm. He remained there three years, and then moved near Maryville, and bought a farm of eighty acres, formerly owned by James Ray, for $1,200. Foity acres were under cultivation. The eastern portion of Maryville now extends on to this farm. He then bought in i860, 500 acres adjoining Maryville on the southeast. He kept this farm until 1878. When Mr. Terhune came to the county in 1856, he brought a steam saw mill and put it up on the One Hundred and Two River two miles and a half east of Maryville. After this he kept store and tavern in Maryville and handled live stock.

Passage source: The History of Nodaway County, Missouri, Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, Etc., Biographical Sketches of Its Citizens, published 1882.

The town of Wilcox is located on the Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railroad, six and three-tenths miles by railroad, and eight miles by wagon road northeast of Maryville. The town was named in honor of B. S. Wilcox, who owned about two hundred acres of land where the town is situated. Mr. Wilcox lives in Hamden Junction, Ohio. The town is finely located on high rolling prairie land, on the divide between the headwaters of Clear Creek, running northwest, and the sources of Sand Creek and Florida Creek, running southwest, and those of the White Cloud running south. The Western Improvement Company of Missouri, composed of W. H. Blodgett, N. F. Grover, and J. G. Anderson, laid out the town in the fall of 1879. The Town Company bought of Mr. Wilcox eighty acres of land at ten dollars an acre. They platted about twenty-five acres in town lots. The town is located on the southeast quarter of the northeast quarter of section 32, township 65, range 36, and the southwest quarter of the northwest quarter of section 33, township 65, range 36. The section line running north and south between Polk and Nodaway Townships coincides with second street, the town lying in both townships. The lots have been disposed of at private sale. The first lot, lot 2, block 5, was sold to Bickett & Stanhope, February 1, 1880, at twenty-five dollars.

Passage source: The History of Nodaway County, Missouri, Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, Etc., Biographical Sketches of Its Citizens, published 1882.

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Read the whole chapter on Polk Township - it names this place 2 more 2 times.