“The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin”, published: Chicago:  
Western Historical Company.   1879.


THOMAS SHILLCOX, farmer, Sec. 10;  P.O. Watertown; born May 13, 
1824, at Milton Mowbray, Leicestershire, England; left in 1843, and 
landed in America in 1844; worked in New York City as gardener, etc., 
till August, 1851, when he came to Wisconsin and located in Watertown, 
Dodge Co., and worked for John W. Cole, one of the first settlers in this 
district, till 1857, when he moved into Jefferson Co. and bought twenty 
acres of land on the Wilder road; he built his house in 1860; now owns 
forty acres of land, and raises all kinds of grain and stock; he was drafted 
twice into the army, and enlisted in Co. A, 51st W.V.I., but did not leave 
the State.  Married Miss Mary Ann Dalton, of Nottinghamshire, 
England, Nov. 14, 1843; have six children – John, born June 4, 1845; 
Ruth, April 15, 1850; Eliza, Dec. 23, 1853; Annie, March 14, 1856; 
Charles, Sept. 20, 1858; William, July 26, 1863.  John enlisted in the 2d 
W.V.C. (Washburn), in 1862, and served three years with them in 
Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, etc.  Members of the Episcopal Church.


Submitted by:  Linda Pingel  (LPingel@worldnet.att.net)