Elizabeth Gertrude (Curwen) Wickes

CURWEN, WICKES

Posted By: Lisa Walden (email)
Date: 7/31/2020 at 16:33:50

WICKES. At Lamoni, Decatur county, Iowa, March 18th, 1883, of consumption, Sr. Elizabeth Gertrude, wife of Bro. Charles A. Wickes; aged 20 years, 2 months, 17 days.

Sr. Wickes was the second daughter of Bro. William H. and Sr. Martha Elizabeth Curwen, and was born at Chicago, Illinois, January 1st, 1863; was a young woman of fine natural endowments, a graduate of the Plano High School, and of more than ordinary culture and promise.

She was married to Bro. Charles Wickes January 1st, 1881, and leaves her young husband in the shadow of sadness and disappointment by her early death.

She was buried from the Lamoni Chapel, March 20th, Elder Joseph Smith preaching the funeral sermon; and her remains deposited in the cemetery west of the village, to wait the wakening summons from the dead.

Source: The Saints' Herald [The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints] - volume 30 (1883) pg. 207