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Not sure when John Wilkerson died. I think he was adopted.

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It's difficult for anyone to help with just first and last name..  Add anything that would help locate the correct John Wilkerson that you might know.

Location:  Country  > Province/Region/State  > city, town of b, m, d.

Timeframe:  Dates/approximate dates of b, m, d.

Names of any parent, spouses, siblings, children.

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Answer 1

https://familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=20&query=%2Bgivenname%3AJohn~%20%2Bsurname%3AWilkerson~%20%2Brecord_type%3A(2)

Here are over 62,000 results of John Wilkerson death records,  Adjust the search criteria and maybe you can figure out which one is him