Some families know a great deal about their roots while others know very little. This site is an attempt to record what I've learned about our family history. In these modern times, families tend to be scattered all over the country, if not the world. One of the goals of this web site is to help our family stay connected even though we live far apart. If you are visiting this site please sign our guest book and let us know if you would like to add anything.
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My name is Terry Lee Wilcox. I am the son of Rosalee Hicks and Raymond Wilcox.
My grandparents are John Ed /Josie Blanche Leech Hicks and Robert Guy /Dolly May Doonan Wilcox. My great-grandparents include Stephen Nelson /Annie Frances Foster Hicks and Samual Chester /Amanda Belle Mercer Leech. My great-great-grandparents are Andrew E. /Rebecca Ellen Lasley Hicks and John F. /Nancy Jane Haines Leech.
My great-great-greatgrandparents are Stephen /Hannah Grey Hicks and Samual /Elinor Irons Leech.

Much of the research my wife and myself have done is on the Hicks and Leech lines and the familys which connect to.

My roots include Bosley, Bright, Cox, Doonan, Foster, Fritz, Gray, Haines, Hicks, Irons, Kuntz, Lasley, Leech, Mercer, Peyton, Rouseau, Ryan, Tallman, Underwood, Wilson, Wilcox

Page heading is by family names, there you will find pictures and other information.

Most of this information was obtained from talking to living relatives and from researching public records. In the course of doing this research, I've discovered that I have many more relatives than I ever thought possible!
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This is a work in progress, so please contact me if you have any information or photos to contribute.

Please check below for a list of Acknowledgments.
If you have contributed thank you very much.

Acknowledgments: The first think you is to the love of my life, my wife Nancy Ann who with me spent hours in the libraries and court houses of north Missouri coping down records and talking to people. A Thank You also to many people including:
Jane Ponce, who is the grand daughter of William Leech contributed most of the information of ancesters of Samual Leech. Russell and Betty Hicks are the people who helped me get started. At Russell's home in the early 1980s we had a genealogy meeting to share information and photos. There I meet Gene Bruner who contributed much of the Hicks, Fincher and Bruner information as well as pictures of his ancesters. Evelynn Hicks, Marian Pratt and Cheryl Hicks supplied the information from the Hicks famlies on the west coast. Linda Leech, Tonya Hunter, Karen Vasquez, gave me info and pictures of what they found on their quest. From people I have talked to this include Gurney Horton, Ruby Hicks, Zelme White Brown, my mother and uncles Jim, Bill and Richard. Many other people that have contributed are not mentioned but know I thank you one and all. I wish to think the Librarys in Putnam, Schyler and Scotland counties.
Also I must note the court house attendants in Schyler county went out of their way to help me. I spent like several days pouring over wills, probate records, and marriages there.
Also I want to mention the Fabious cemetery west of Downing, Missouri. A thank you to the fine folks who take care of this cementery. It is the best kept cementery in the country. Much work has been done on restoring the old
tombstones and make it the nice place for our ancesters to call home.
As a side bar to this, while looking for my ancesters in one cementery I fell into an open grave. The place was so over grown with weeds and brush one could not see where one was about to step. I would guess that the grave was dug and when the family of the deceased seen the condition of the cementery they changed their mind on the burial.