Washington
Henry
Adcock
Born in Neshoba County, Mississippi
Ancestors 
Son of Henry Adcock
and Sarah (Swilling) Adcock
Brother of
Joseph Valentine Adcock, George William Adcock, Martha Jane (Adcock) Kea, Henrietta (Adcock) Kea, Mary Susan (Adcock) Barrett, Samuel Lee Adcock, Nancy (Adcock) Barrett, John Frank Adcock and Emma Adcock
Husband of
Daisy (Strickland) Adcock
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Claude Lawrence Adcock, Allie Lavada (Adcock) Culpepper, Ethel Estell (Adcock) Passon, John Willie Adcock, Virgie Dee (Adcock) Stimek, Lloyd Ferrel Adcock and Charles Leeroy Adcock
Died
at age 93
in New Iberia, Iberia Parish, Louisiana
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Biography
The youngest child of Henry Adcock and Sarah "Sally" Swilling, Washington Henry "Wash" Adcock was born in Neshoba County, Mississippi on September 18, 1879. Little is known about Wash's childhood, except that near the time of Wash's birth, his father Henry left the family. Wash lived with his mother and siblings until his mother's death in 1899; although, Wash was known to have visited his brothers Joseph Valentine and George William in Yell County, Arkansas for extended periods during his early teen years.
After Wash's mother died, he lived with his sister Mary Susan Adcock-Barrett, until he married. Although the exact date of his marriage is uncertain, Wash Adcock married Daisy Strickland of Neshoba County, Mississippi sometime between July, 1900 and early 1903. Wash and Daisy settled along what is today known as "Benson Road", named after Lloyd Adcock's best friend Joe Benson.
The Adcock home was located down the unpaved Benson Road about a mile from the Pine Grove Church. [Note: The church is located just outside Dixon, Mississippi at the junction of old Benson Road and County Road 127.] Wash and Daisy lived their entire married lives there, raising seven children on the property.
Wash was a cotton farmer, and managed to build a strong reputation in the community as an honest and fair man, for which he earned great respect.
When Daisy died of cancer in 1959, Wash, who had never learned to drive, had difficulty managing life on his own. Sometime around 1960 or 1961, Wash moved in with his son Rev. Claude L. Adcock and Claude's second wife, Pearl.
Not long after, Wash's youngest son Lloyd F. Adcock and his wife offered to help care for Wash. Lloyd lived in Iberia Parish, Louisiana, which seemed far away at the time. However, Claude accepted and soon they developed a regular pattern. Claude & Pearl would care for Wash for the first six months of the year; then, Lloyd and his wife would care for Wash during the last six months of the year.
This arrangement continued until June of 1969, when, on June 14, 1969, Claude died of a massive heart attack. From that point on, Wash lived with Lloyd in Louisiana until Wash's death on February 11, 1973.
Wash and his wife Daisy are buried in the cemetery next to the Pine Grove Church of God near Dixon, Mississippi, where they were members, and where Daisy's parents and many relatives are buried.
Sources
- Ancestry.com. Web: Mississippi, Find A Grave Index, 1798-2012 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry Operations, Inc., 2012. Original data: Find A Grave. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi: accessed 18 January 2013.
- Headstone: Photo taken by David Adcock October 19, 2010.
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Washington Henry "Wash" Adcock was my grandfather. After his wife's death in 1959, Wash did not live alone very long. Soon, he moved in with his oldest son, Claude Lawrence Adcock, a Church of God minister in Philadelphia, MS. He lived a number of years with Claude, until Claude and my father, Lloyd Adcock, agreed to share the responsibility of caring for their aging father. Sometime in the early 1960s, the arrangement was made that during the first six months of the year, Wash would live with Claude in Mississippi, and the latter six months of the year he would live with Lloyd in Louisiana. This arrangement continued until Claude's death in June of 1969. From that time onward until his death in 1973, my grandfather Wash lived with us in our home on Hopeland Plantation, outside of New Iberia, Louisiana.
My favorite memory of my grandfather during those later years involved the two of us walking to the family mailbox, over a tenth of a mile down the road from our home in rural south Louisiana. Wash would walk to the mailbox at least once each day until he fell and broke his hip in late January, 1973. He never recovered and died February 11, 1973. He is buried just outside of Dixon, Mississippi in the Pine Grove Church of God Cemetery.
posted 21 Aug 2015 by David Adcock
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- David Adcock
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David Adcock :
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Linda Swilling :
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Jeanette (Hester) Brewer :
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Anyway, Wash lived about a mile or so from the Pine Grove Church of God on what is today known as Benson Road. The church was located at the corner of Benson Road and today's county road 127. At the time, there were no paved roads in the area. Benson Road still is unpaved today.
Wash explained that the night was very dark, and as he rode his mule through the "holler" (a big dip in the road which is still there today), a mountain lion in one of the trees above screeched, frightening his mule. Wash held on for dear life as his frightened mule rushed on toward the church. Wash chuckled and then said, "You were lucky that cat didn't get me, cuz you might not be here today if it had!"