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Charles Wickliffe

Birth
Virginia, USA
Death
27 Sep 1874 (aged 71)
Benton County, Missouri, USA
Burial
Warsaw, Benton County, Missouri, USA Add to Map
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s/o John William Wickliffe Sr and Mary Taylor
married: Barbara Jones

From the Benton Co MO website:
"At an early day a large quantity of the bones of the Mammoth or Mastodon, were found at two places in this County-one on the farm now owned by the Chas. Wickliffe heirs"

Jeffersonian Republic Newspaper, Jefferson City, MO
dated, Nov 12 1842

"At the Wickliffe farm, Mr Case & Mr Redmond took out a large part, perhaps nearly the whole of a large skeleton, shipped it to Cincinnati, and obtained $20,000.00 for it."
"One of it's tusks is said to have been nine feet long."
s/o John William Wickliffe Sr and Mary Taylor
married: Barbara Jones

From the Benton Co MO website:
"At an early day a large quantity of the bones of the Mammoth or Mastodon, were found at two places in this County-one on the farm now owned by the Chas. Wickliffe heirs"

Jeffersonian Republic Newspaper, Jefferson City, MO
dated, Nov 12 1842

"At the Wickliffe farm, Mr Case & Mr Redmond took out a large part, perhaps nearly the whole of a large skeleton, shipped it to Cincinnati, and obtained $20,000.00 for it."
"One of it's tusks is said to have been nine feet long."


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