John Taylor WICKHAM ²

  General Notes:

OH, COUNTY MARRIAGE RECORDS, 1774-1993:
Name: John Wicham
Gender:Male
Marriage Date: 24 Aug 1861 (it appeas "4" was crossed out and "5" written in)
Marriage Place: Noble, Ohio, USA
Spouse:Mary A. Smith
Film Number: 000932524

This family must have moved from OH to MO by 1870, according to the census below.

1870 MO CENSUS, Benton Co, Cole Camp, Aug. 2, 1870:
John Wickham, 31, $125 personal property, farm laborer, b. OH;
wife Mary A., 29, keeping house, b. OH;
son Francis M., 7, b. OH;
son Henry T., 5, b. OH;
son William A., 5/12 (born Dec), b. OH.
Mary's parents and brother are listed next to them on census.

1883 HISTORY OF HENRY MISSOURI, National Historical Co. - page: 811: Fewell, James Henry - b. 1837 near Dukedom, Graves Co, KY; residence Springfield Twp.:
"His death was a sudden and tragic one. On his return home from a neighbor's house, he fell from his saddle dead, from the effects, as was supposed, of poison, secretly administered by another. Mr. Fewell and family, together with some of their neighbors, soon after the burial, suspecting that foul play had been connected with the death of the deceased, began to investigate the circumstances connected with it, and found that a note of $200 had been given in the past, and there was evidence that said note had been changed unlawfully to read $1,200. Subsequent developments strengthened the suspicions against the suspected one, John Wickham, but the matter not being duly investigated from want of evidence, the suspected criminal was never arraigned in time to fasten suspicion upon him. However, in a few months, he suddenly and very suspiciously disappeared, and has never been heard of in the locality of Henry County. The lawful note of $200 has never been presented."
(Note: No proof that this is the same John Wickham. Henry J. Fewell, b. Mar 1837 in KY, d. Jun 27, 1870 and was burled Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Springfield Twp, Henry Co, MO)

INFO FROM GENE WHITE: John T. Wickham was b. Zanesville, OH about 1839. There are a couple of versions of the story about his death that have come down through the family. One is he was hit by a train, while in town. The body couldn't be identified, but was assumed to be him because he didn't return home. Another story was he went on a cattle buying trip and never returned, and it was assumed he was robbed and killed for the money he carried.

FAMILY LORE: John disappeared while on a cattle buying trip in CA between 1872-1876 and was believed to have been robbed and killed.

John married Mary Ann SMITH on 25 Aug 1861 in Noble Co, OH.¹ (Mary Ann SMITH was born on 4 Mar 1841 in pre-Noble Co, OH,⁴ died on 11 Mar 1915 in Windsor, Henry Co, MO ⁴ and was buried in Mt. Olivet Cem, Roseland, Henry Co, MO ⁴.)