AMES, Allie J. (Wilcox) 1858-1932

AMES, WILCOX, SMITH, BURNHAM, HINMAN

Posted By: S. Ferrall - IAGenWeb volunteer
Date: 5/20/2025 at 12:38:53

Allie Jane Wilcox, the daughter of Hiram and Dorlesca Hinman Wilcox, was born on July 14th, 1858, at Great Valley, Cattaraugus County, New York, and departed this life on Thursday, February 25th, 1932, at eleven o'clock P.M. at the age of 73 years, seven months, and eleven days.

On June 21st, 1879 she was united in marriage at Monona, Iowa to Frank W. Ames. To this union was born one daughter, Mrs. M.E. Smith, who, with the bereft husband, survives her.

Mrs. Ames united with the Methodist Church when a girl, and, despite ill health most of her life, never forsook or forgot the faith of her childhood, as the noble and wholesome lives of husband and daughter so eloquently attest.

She was a thoughtful and devoted mother, taking seriously the business of housekeeping, and performing the duties of family life so far as she was physically able to do so, leaving this testimony: "She hath done what she could."

There remains to mourn her passing, beside the husband and daughter above mentioned, one brother, George Ames, Castlewood, South Dakota, and an uncle, J.M. Wilcox, of Great Valley, N.Y., one step-brother, Mr. H.C. Burnham, Waukon, Iowa, one step-sister, Mrs. W.E. Hinman, Clearbrook, Minn., besides a host of other relatives and friends.

Funeral services were held at her home near Hardin on Sunday afternoon February 28th, 1932 at two o'clock by Rev. Louis H. Joslin of Monona. Interment was made in Hardin cemetery, at Hardin.
~Monona Leader, Thursday, March 3, 1932; pg 1

Notes:
-Her husband was also her step-brother.
-See obit of her mother Ann D. (Hinman) Wilcox, Ames, Burnham:
https://iagenweb.org/boards/allamakee/obituaries/index.cgi?read=904856