Wilcox, Helen Lucy (Bishop) - 1840 - 1910

WILCOX, BISHOP, SMITH, MAJOR

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 2/23/2013 at 13:26:13

Source: Plain Dealer January 14, 1910, Lead Page

Mrs. O. V. Wilcox passed away Wednesday morning at the home of her son James Smith, of Howard Center Twp. Her funeral will take place at the home Saturday afternoon at 1 o’clock.

Transcribed from a newspaper clipping submitted by Janice Sowers.

Transcriber’s Note: Mr. Wilcox’ obituary indicates Mrs. Wilcox was Helen Bishop. Cemetery records show Helen was born in 1840.

Source: Twice-A-Week Plain Dealer Jan. 28, 1910, FP, C2,3

WILCOX.
Lucy Helen Bishop was born Sept. 4 1840 near Plymouth, Marshall county, Ind., and passed to the life immortal Jan. 12, 1910, from the home of her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. James Smith near Lime Springs, Iowa.
She was married to O. V. Wilcox of LaPorte county, Ind., Feb. 18, 1858. The children of this union are C. S. Wilcox of Excelsior Springs, Mo., and L. Oneita Smith near Lime Springs, Iowa. They removed from Indiana to Howard Center, Howard county, Iowa, in February, 1878, where they lived until Jan. 9, 1895, when he passed on to the great beyond. For the past ten years she has been in failing health and has spent most of the time with her daughter and family.
She united with the Door Village Baptist church of LaPorte county, Ind., in April, 1868, and soon after coming to this county united with the Baptist church at Cresco. Mrs. Wilcox was a rare character; one of God’s noble women. Was esteemed by all her neighbors, because of her gentle manners and kindness of heart, and was a benediction in her home. To know her was to love her. It was ever her manifest desire to use her influence for the cause of righteousness, and her memory will ever be cherished by those who knew her in her active life.
She has left, besides the two children, seven grandchildren, two brothers and a sister. Albert Bishop of Seattle, Wash., Horace Bishop of Cresco. Iowa, Hattie L. Major of Chicago, Ill.

Transcriber’s Note: Her gravestone in Howard Center Township Cemetery shows her name as Helen L

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