David Wilcox 

David Wilcox's birthday is debatable depending on the record, but on his headstone is engraved,  "David Wilcox who was born in Dartmouth, Mas, February 11th, 1763." When David was born, his father, William Wilcox Jr, was around 22 and his mother, Sarah Smith, was around 20. 

In 1791, David Wilcox was one of the first dozen settlers of the Palmyra/Macedon area. According to "Writings of James Reeves Palmyra's First Historian" Page 103, on December, 13th 1791, David Wilcox acquired the land and deed to "the creek lot No. 33." He gained 100 acres for 75 dollars. Shortly after he arrived, his wife, Anna Baker Wilcox, and his family, two children at the time, joined him on the newly acquired land. The family worked hard to build themselves a home, and functioning farm. On their land, which would later be next to the Roger's family farm, the Wilcox's built a log cabin. 

Before the Wilcoxes finished their house, David Wilcox helped to build Webb Harwood's house, the founder of Macedon, which was also the first house built in Palmyra/Macedon.

In 1809, David is recorded in the 1809 minutes of the annual town meeting to be one of the Assessors of Taxes; the other Assessor of Taxes that year was Israel Delano who is also buried in the Old Baptist Cemetery.

David Wilcox's profession in the town was a blacksmith and he set up his own shop. As the official Winston Churchill website, states, "The building believed to have been their dwelling was still in existence in 1970, when Anita Leslie, grand-niece of Jennie Jerome, visited Palmyra on a book promotion tour for her life of Lady Randolph Churchill."

David Wilcox died on August 23rd, 1828, in Macedon, New York, United States, at age 67, fifteen years after his only wife, Anna died. David was buried in Macedon, New York in the Old Baptist Cemetery. 

Anna Wilcox

Anna Baker was born on May 29th, 1761, in Sackville, Nova Scotia, Canada. When she was born her father, Joseph Baker, was around 22 and her mother, Experience Martin, was around 21. 

Anna was one of the first woman to settle in the wilderness of Palmyra with her family.  According to "Writings of James Reeves Palmyra's First Historian" page 25, Anna was crucial in the village to those sick from a disease spread rapidly in the year 1793. The entire female population was unwell, but Anna would go down to the creek to help those infected. 

To quote from James Reeves, "Mrs. Wilcox was one of the noblest of the many noble pioneer women, and it was gratifying to know that during the long that followed, the friendship was of that tenderness which suffering and privation only can produce."

Anna was a mother of a confirmed 10 children. (More information on the children below.)

Anna died on December 28th, 1813, in Macedon, New York, at the age of 52, and was buried in Wayne, Macedon, New York, United States in the Old Baptist Cemetery. Her headstone along with David's was moved from it's original position, however, both headstones in present day are next to each other. The Wilcox's footstones are also in the cemetery.