Burial was in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery here. Pallbearers were six grandsons and great grandsons.
The daughter of Enos Heath and Thankfull Etta Razey, Henrietta Elizabeth Billick was born December 9, 1852 at Black Brook, Clinton County, New York. She came to Wisconsin and later to Iowa when a young girl, finally settling in Madison township, Poweshiek county. It was there at the home of her uncle Henry Drummond, that she was married to George Billick January 10, 1869; Dr. I.N. Bushby read the ceremony.
With the exception of a few years spent in Scott county, near Clinton, Iowa Mr. and Mrs. Billick maintained their home in Madison township until 1884, when they moved to Brooklyn.
January 10, 1939, this couple celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary at the house in Brooklyn, which had been their home for 55 of those years. Where Mr. Billick passed away. (This is the same house where his father Charles lived and passed away). Surviving are all but one of their Children, Thankful Etta Graham, having passed away in 1917. The five remaining are Mrs. Cora Bell McAninch, Mrs. Sarah Deborah McAninch, Mrs. Loella Mabel Ahrens, Charles Benjamin Billick, and George Weaver Billick, all of Brooklyn. 15 grandchildren, 18 great grandchildren, and 4 great-great grandchildren also survive.
Mrs. Billick was a member of the Woman's Relief corps and Grac Grace Methodist Church, Booklyn.
Burial was in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery here. Pallbearers were six grandsons and great grandsons.
The daughter of Enos Heath and Thankfull Etta Razey, Henrietta Elizabeth Billick was born December 9, 1852 at Black Brook, Clinton County, New York. She came to Wisconsin and later to Iowa when a young girl, finally settling in Madison township, Poweshiek county. It was there at the home of her uncle Henry Drummond, that she was married to George Billick January 10, 1869; Dr. I.N. Bushby read the ceremony.
With the exception of a few years spent in Scott county, near Clinton, Iowa Mr. and Mrs. Billick maintained their home in Madison township until 1884, when they moved to Brooklyn.
January 10, 1939, this couple celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary at the house in Brooklyn, which had been their home for 55 of those years. Where Mr. Billick passed away. (This is the same house where his father Charles lived and passed away). Surviving are all but one of their Children, Thankful Etta Graham, having passed away in 1917. The five remaining are Mrs. Cora Bell McAninch, Mrs. Sarah Deborah McAninch, Mrs. Loella Mabel Ahrens, Charles Benjamin Billick, and George Weaver Billick, all of Brooklyn. 15 grandchildren, 18 great grandchildren, and 4 great-great grandchildren also survive.
Mrs. Billick was a member of the Woman's Relief corps and Grac Grace Methodist Church, Booklyn.
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