Wilcox, Orrin Virgil 1831 - 1895

WILCOX, BISHOP, SMITH

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 2/23/2013 at 13:18:41

Source: The Howard County Times January 15, 1895, Page 4

Death of O. V. Wilcox

After long months of suffering Mr. O. V. Wilcox passed quietly away at his home in Howard Center township last Wednesday. His funeral obsequies took place on Friday, Rev. S. H. Mitchell, pastor of Cresco Baptist church, preached the funeral discourse. He was laid to rest in Howard Center cemetery under the auspices of the Masonic fraternity of which he was a member. The ever beautiful ceremony of the order being rendered by Past Master Robert Thompson. Wm. Wilbraham, J. L. Bowman, Jas. Wilson, W. G. Fish, F. P. Howlett, S. S. Culver, M. M. McPherson, B. Offen, Andrew Schein, M. R. Ling, H. C. Burgess and others formed the Masonic procession, who laid the sprig of acacia upon his coffin with deep and reverential acceptance of the lesson it typifies.

Orrin Virgil Wilcox was born in New York in the year 1831. His parents moved to LaParte county, Ind., when he was but six years of age, where he grew to manhood and was married to Miss Helen Bishop in 1858. In the spring of 1878 he moved to Howard County, Iowa, and located one mile north of Howard Center, where he resided to the evening of his death, Jan. 7th, 1895. He leaves a wife, a son, Mr. Chas. Wilcox, and a daughter, Mrs. Oneita Smith, to mourn his loss.

No reproach ever rested upon the conduct of Mr. Wilcox – he went in and out among his fellows through a long series of years and was always manly, kind, conscientious and true. His quiet unpretentious manner concealed from the casual observer a wealth of thoughtful intelligence, which those who knew him intimately enjoyed and appreciated. In all the years of his life he rightly adorned the tenets of his profession. To him distress never preferred it suit in vain because his heart was expanded by benevolence, and he reveled in the thought of the Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. His faith is lost in sight and his spirit has winged its flight to the everlasting hills of Zion city of our God.

Transcribed from a newspaper clipping submitted by Janice Sowers.

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