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Benjamin Carroll Wilks - Harriet Young Family Texas Pictures

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Benjamin Carroll Wilks (1827-1919), wife Harriet Young Wilks (1841-1911), with son Wm. Wesley Whiteside Wilks & daughter Annie Wilks (Mayfield), Chalk Mtn. Community, Somervel Co., TX

	Benjamin Carroll Wilks served in General John Bell Hood's Texas Brigade of the Army of Northern Virginia, Confederate States Army, 26 Aug 1861, Peoria, Hill Co., TX -10 Apr 1865, to surrender at Appomattox, VA. He said he walked all the way there, and all the way back. Hood's Brigade participated in 22 battles, including Antietam, Sharpsburg, MD, 17 Sep 1862 (the day 23,000 soldiers died); Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania Co., VA, 11-15 Dec 1862 (18,000 casualties); and Gettysburg, PA, 2 Jul 1863 (when 50,000 troops died). B. C. Wilks' name and three of his brothers-in-law (officers H. W. Young and C. N. Brooks, privates B. C. Wilks and Henry Young,) are engraved on the Hood statue on the East Drive of the Texas State Capitol in Austin. Their descendants are eligible for membership in Hood's Texas Brigade, Reactivated, formerly Hq. at Hill College, Hillsboro, TX; now at U. N. TX, Denton. See also the Confederate collection in the Texas Civil War Museum in Fort Worth. His brother-in-laws Wesley and William Young also served in a different Brigade.

They had thirteen children, though three* died in infancy:

1. Martha Ellen Wilks was born 11 NOV 1857 in Peoria, Hill Co., TX, and died 26 NOV 1857 in Peoria, Hill Co., TX. *
2. John Henry Wilks was born 01 DEC 1858 in Peoria, Hill Co., TX, and died 18 DEC 1858 in Peoria, Hill Co., TX. *
3. Samuel Theodore Wilks was born 16 JUN 1860 in Peoria, Hill Co., TX, and died 03 JUL 1929 in Wichita Falls, TX.
4. Benjamin Franklin "Frank" Wilks was born 02 SEP 1862 in Peoria, Hill Co., TX, and died 1935 in OK.
5. George Clinton Wilks was born 20 OCT 1864 in Peoria, Hill Co., TX, and died 08 DEC 1951 in Walnut Springs, Bosque Co., TX.
6. Alicie Anna Wilks was born 20 APR 1866 in Peoria, Hill Co., TX, and died 26 MAR 1924; md. John A. Mayfield.
7. James Edward "Ed" Wilks was born 28 JUL 1869 in Peoria, Bosque Co., TX, and died 02 DEC 1944.
8. Nora Geneva Wilks was born 05 SEP 1872 in Peoria, Hill Co., TX, and died 18 JAN 1937; md. James Aycock.
9. Philip Leonidas "Lee" Wilks was born 02 JAN 1874 in Peoria, Hill Co., TX, and died bet 1931-1932.
10. Claude Rivers Wilks was born 16 AUG 1876 in Peoria, Hill Co., TX, and died 09 SEP 1951 in Comanche, Comanche Co., TX.
11. Rufus Washington Wilks was born 14 AUG 1878 in Peoria, Hill Co., TX, and died AFT 08 DEC 1940.
12. Bessie Pearl Wilks was born 29 SEP 1881 in near, Stephenville, Erath Co., TX, and died 03 OCT 1882 in near, Stephenville, Erath Co., TX. *
13. William Wesley Whiteside Wilks was born 01 APR 1884 in near Walnut Springs, Bosque Co., TX, and died 26 NOV 1946 in on the farm near, Dublin, Erath Co., TX.

See p. 16, Descendants of Benjamin Carroll Wilks

12 Jan 1912 ~ Samuel Theodore Wilks and wife Euna Herring Family: Presley, C. T., Euna Opal, P. L., Beryl, Martha Fay, La Fawn, and Freddie Wilks	Alicie Anna "Annie" Wilks Mayfield, abt 1890?

Nora Geneva Wilks Aycock	Edmond "Ed" Wilks & a neighbor boy	Claude Rivers Wilks

Rufus Washington Wilks	ca 1906 ~ George Clinton Wilks	ca 1907 ~ Wm. Wesley Whiteside Wilks, abt 23

Roland L. Wilks, son of Uncle Ed ~ Nov 1978 at Myrl's	Karl Glyn Wilks (son of W. W.) and cousin Ruby Mayfield Jones (daughter of Annie Wilks Mayfield), in Beaumont, Nov 1978

Benjamin Carroll Wilks and wife Harriet Young Wilks are buried in Chalk Mountain Ceme., Somervell Co., TX

Regrettably, no pictures available for Uncle Frank or Uncle Lee Wilks

SEE Wilks/Wilkes DNA Project Results