All Stories
The Wilcox Family
1916 – 2026
Bar W Bar Ranch — Horses & Family History
Carrol and Barbara Wilcox, the homes he built, and the horses that made the ranch's name — by Bonny Wilcox Collins.
1817 – 1911
The Wilcox Line — Back to 1817
A Pennsylvania farmer turned lawyer, two orphaned brothers and the sisters they married, Barnum's seven months in the Union Army — in his own signature — and Eveline's 1911 obituary.
1880 – 1968
Ruby Brown Van Sickle Wilcox
Bonny’s book about her grandmother — born on a Porter Township farm, mother of eleven, the only grandparent she remembered. Complete and verbatim.
1940 – 1953
Porky — the Boy from Fruitvale
Paul Brown Jr., the boy the family never forgot — told from The Daily Sentinel's own pages and his parents' remarkable letter.
2014 – 2016
Bonny’s Workshop
Her own project files, complete and verbatim — the hope chests with scripture inlaid in the lids, the Buddy Bench, and the boast: “I dood it.”
2008 – 2016
The Collins Years
Ron and Bonny’s own letters and papers — the Christmas letters with every name on the photographs, a pot-luck notice, and the reading log of a retired woman’s winters.
The Bixby Family
1365 – 1647
The Bixbys of England
Five centuries inside ten miles of Suffolk — a 1459 will, a mother lost in childbirth, and the teenager who sailed for America. By Bonny Wilcox Collins.
1630 – 1801
The Bixbys in America
The crossing, "Get a Minister," Joseph and the widow Sarah — and Boxford's thirty-six-year war over a hymn book. The chapter Bonny left unfinished, presented as she left it.
1638 – 2017
The Bixby Family History
From Joseph Bixby's landing with the Puritans to Victor and Dorothy's Buffalo wedding — and the daughter who married Carrol Wilcox. From Bonny's 105-page book.
The Van Sickles & Ohio Kin
The Benisek Family
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