Iowa
Old Press
Jackson Sentinel
Maquoketa, Jackson County, Iowa
March 10, 1892
DIED
MRS. JOHN WILCOX died at her home on Second Street, Maquoketa,
Iowa, March 7th, 1892. The health of our sister had been poor for
some years, but she kept about her work until recently, gradually
failing, until Monday evening she “fell asleep.” The
deceased was born in Plattsburg, Clinton County, New York,
removed to Canada and subsequently to Jackson County, Iowa. The
latter journey was begun February 15, 1840, and accomplished in a
wagon without delay or accident. Mrs. Wilcox was the mother of
eight children, five boys and three girls, six of whom, with
their aged father, survive to mourn their loss. Yet they mourn
not as those without hope: at the age of nineteen she made a
public profession of faith in Christ, uniting with the Baptist
Church, a relation that has been continued until she was called
above. Especial sympathy is felt for father Wilcox, now
eighty-four years old, having lived most happily with this the
wife of his youth, since January 4, 1835. The funeral took place
at the Buckhorn Church, near their former home and interment at
the cemetery near the church. Rev. M. J. Sigler conducted the
services.
DIED - GOODENOW
At his residence, south of Maquoketa, Friday morning, February 4,
1892, at the age of 63 years, Hosea Goodenow passed away and was
laid to rest in Mt. Hope Cemetery, Sunday afternoon, in the
presence of a large concourse of relatives and friends.
Mr. Goodenow was born in Queensbury, Warren County, New York,
December 3, 1829. When twenty-six years of age, he was married
May 10, 1857, to Miss Salina Haviland, who like himself is a
native of New York State. He settled with his bride at the old
homestead and here they have since sojourned. Hosea Goodenow,
formerly president of the Jackson County Bank, is recognized as
one of the oldest citizens of the Hawkeye State, to which he came
in 1846-the year it was admitted into the Union as a State. They
journeyed overland with the teams from Warren County, New York to
Schenectady, where they boarded a canal boat, by which they
reached Buffalo, and from there proceeded by a Lake steamer to
Chicago. From that point they traveled with teams across the
State of Illinois to this county-then a wild prairie with few
inhabitants save the denizens of the prairie and forest. At that
time the greater part of the land was the property of Uncle Sam
and most of the settlers had located within a radius of
twenty-five miles along the river.
For years he had been a great sufferer from a cancer in the face
and last fall he went to Chicago to have it removed having a
portion of the jaw out away with it. Returning to his home he
improved for a short time but the insidious disease again
fastened itself upon him and he succumbed as before stated. He
leaves a wife, one son and one daughter and a large circle of
relatives and friends to mourn their loss.
[transcribed by K.W., June & July 2009]