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Submitted: 6/15/22 • Approved: 6/29/22 • Last Updated: 7/2/22 • R1436633-G0-S3
Confederate States Army
LIEUTENANT COLONEL
Civil War Confederate
May 14, 1936 - March 4, 1886
Husband of Julia Hamilton Wilcox
Granville Wilcox was born on May 14, 1836 to Henry and Sarah P.Pettus Wilcox.
He departed this life on March 4,1886 at the age of fifty.
He was educated at the Ozark Institute and at the Arkansas College at Fayetteville. He graduated from Princeton at the age of twenty and began to study law at home under his father, Henry Wilcox. He was admitted to the bar at the age of twenty-three and served as prosecuting attorney of the Western District of Arkansas one term. He was political editor of the Van Buren Argus for nine years and in 1866 and 1867 was a member of the State Legislature.
He was a man of unblemished reputation and a man of extraordinary legal ability. He was known as the "Little Giant" of Arkansas.
During the war he served in the Confederate army, entering as third lieutenant, and leaving lieutenant-colonel. He was also quartermaster in the Indian Department.
Photo courtesy of Frances Allen Titsworth
Contributed on 6/15/22 by Billsully060
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