1755 - 1837

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• Birth	13 Mar 1755	Rowan County, North Carolina
  Gender	Male
  Died	16 Jun 1837	Shelby County, Kentucky
  Person ID	I87392	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	04 Jun 2005 00:00:00
  Father	John WILCOXSON, b. 6 Sep 1720
  Mother	Sarah Cassandra BOONE, b. 7 Jun 1724, Chalfone, New Britain Twp., Bucks County, Pennsylvania
  Family ID	F29781	Group Sheet
  Married	Oct 1780	Bryant's Station, Boonesborough, Shelby County, Kentucky
  Family ID	F38149	Group Sheet

• Notes

  Daniel Wilcoxson was born March 13, 1755 in Rowan County, North Carolina, a son of John Willcockson and Sarah Boone Willcockson. He was the nephew of the famed Daniel Boone, His mother being a sister to Daniel. Many accounts are written of his adventures, the following is taken form "The Draper Manuscripts": a reminiscent written in 1898 by a lady when she was past 80 years old, in which she states what her grandmother said regarding the Girty attack on the fort, and tells what her grandmother said regarding another incident, " When plowing time came Daniel Wilcoxson and brother were in the fields, Daniel was plowing and his brother sitting on a log picking the flint of his gun ( one would plow and the other watched for Indians), when an Indian slipped up and tomahawked the one on the log. Daniel ran, the Indian after him. The Indian was so near that when Daniel was on the top of the fence the Indian was at the bottom. His mother, Aunt Sarah Wilcoxson was so excited she went out of the fort gate and would Hollar Run, Daniel, Run, and let him in at the gate and then she followed." Daniel Wilcoxson served as a lieutenant in the Revolutionary War, both in defense of Bryan's Station and in General Clark's expeditions. He volunteered in Rowan County, North Carolina, September 1778, and was discharged in the fall of 1783. He married Sarah Faulkner (Faulconer, Falconer) in October 1780 at Bryan's Station, Fayette County, Kentucky. They lived for a lon period of time in Woodford County, Kentucky where their children were born, and where also, the parents of Sarah, John Faulconer and Joyce Craig Faulconer, lived. Later he moved to Shelby County, Kentucky, Where he died June 16, 1837. Sarah Faulkner was born July 15, 1760 in Virginia, and died August 10, 1831 in Kentucky.