Hicks, Frances Hiner

HINER, HICKS

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 12/3/2007 at 17:25:05

Jackson Sentinel
December 1, 1920

Another Old Resident Answers Final Call

Frances Hannah Hiner, daughter of Young I. and Malinda J. Hiner, was born in Rockingham County, Virginia, March 16, 1846. She was one of five children, three daughters and two sons.

In June, 1854, the family started west to make their home in the Mississippi Valley. The journey was made overland and only those who are familiar with country and conditions of sixty-six years ago, can understand the hardships of such travel and the establishing of a home in the Great West. When the family reached Bloomington, Ill., the father became seriously ill and died, leaving the mother with five children in a strange land. Mr. Hiner was buried at Bloomington and the sad news was sent to the wife’s brother, the late Eugenis Enderson. News carried with utmost speed required considerable time. When the brother traveling horseback, reached his sorrowing sister, it was found that one of the horses had died, adding to the discouraging features of the journey. The brother’s horse was hitched to the caravan and the journey finally completed to the home in Brookfield township, Clinton county.

The incidents of the trip west made a deep impression on the little girl of eight years and the experiences of pioneer days were retained vividly in her mind. It was given her to see the changes and growth in Eastern Iowa during sixty-six years.

She was married Feb. 24, 1875, to David M. Hicks. They established their home near Elwood, Clinton county. Iowa had remained there till they moved to Maquoketa April 1915.

Mrs. Hicks was early taught the way of the Christian life and at an early age united with the church. She was a member of the Episcopal church and has since been a member of the same church in Maquoketa, Ia.

Mrs. Hicks is the first of the five children to be called from this life. A half-sister, Mrs. Maria Hicks, died in 1905. Those remaining to sorrow with the bereaved husband are the sisters Mrs. Mary Patterson of Gilletts Grove, Ia., and Mrs. Hettie Boaden of Chamberlain, S. D. and the brothers Mr. E. S. Hiner and Mr. J. A. Hiner of Mount Vernon, Ia.

During the recent years there has been more than the usual uncertainty of life in her case for her physicians were cognizant of organic conditions which would probably result in sudden death. It was thus that death came Friday 11:30 a.m., Dec. 3, 1920.

A faithful loving wife is taken from earthly circles but loving hearts will still hold her in sweet and sacred memory till united in the family circles of heaven. Many friends remain to extend sympathy to the sorrowing hearts.

The funeral service was held Monday, Dec. 6, at 2 p.m., from the home on Prospect street, Maquoketa, Ia. The service was conducted by Edward A Lang, Pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church.