Alice Hewitt was born in Bedford County, Virginia, and remained in that place until, as a child, she accompanied her parents to Lynchburg, in the same state. There she lived until she reached young-womanhood when, in 1888 she came to Puget Sound to visit her sister, Mrs. Frank Hancock, (Now deceased) of Stanwood, Washington. Here she met and married Mr. Samuel E. Hancock and ever since she has made Whidby Island her home.

For the past year Mrs. Hancock has been an invalid and confined to the house, having been afflicted with hardening of the arteries, for which affliction medical skill, as yet, has been unable to find a remedy. About two week ago she fell, while slowly walking across the room and since that time she has failed rapidly. She passed away without suffering last Friday evening at seven o'clock. A few moments before death her attendants went into her room and noticed she was breathing stertorously, but she lay very quiet and to all appearance was sleeping. Five minutes later she had slept her earthly life away. Her last words, as she was turned in bed a few hours before death, were, "Lord, have mercy on me."

The deceased was a kind and gentle lady with an ear (and heart) ever open to the cry of distress, and always dispensed ready smiles and pleasant words to whomever came her way, not alone to friends, but to strangers as well. She was a faithful wife, a model homekeeper and hospitality personified. Altho she had no offspring of her own, so motherly was her heart that she assisted in the bringing up of two or three children. To Mrs. Lloyd Pearson whom she took into her home at the age of three years, she was as tender and devoted as is any mother to her own daughter. And her foster child repaid her in her last illness with as untiring love and care as an own daughter could have given. She was a consistent and conscientious Christian gentlewoman, and was for more than thirty years a zealous member of the First Congregational Church of this place. She will be greatly missed not alone by a large circle of church friends but by many others whom she held dear and to whom she had endeared herself by her generous and self-sacrificing disposition, and they will ever cherish her remembrance with love and esteem.

She leaves to mourn her loss her husband, Samuel E. Hancock, her foster-daughter, Mrs. Loyd Pearson, both of this place; two brothers, Ambrose and George Hewitt, of Clarkesville, Missouri, and Douglas, Alaska, respectively, and a large number of nieces and nephews both in the East and on the Sound. Funeral services were held for the deceased friend in the Congregational Church last Sunday afternoon, Rev. E. S. Ireland officiating. A crowed (sic) church and many unusually beautiful floral pieces, brot by loving hands to adorn her shrouded bed and final resting place, attested the respect and affection of her friends and neighbors.

--From the (Coupeville) Island County Times of January 26, 1923