Parents are Henry E. Barber Sr. and Lucinda Hines
Wife of Joseph A. Willcox
(Married: Feb. 29, 1880, Milford, Dickinson Co., Iowa, and gives her maiden name as Barber.)
*Note: Joseph's parents are Ransom Robinson Willcox & Katherine Willcox.
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The funeral of Mrs. J. A. Wilcox was largely attended on Tuesday afternoon, and Rev. H. L. Smith delivered an eloquent discourse. The circumstances of her death were peculiary distressing. A child wife, married at the age of 16, having given back, one after the other, the two little ones God loaned to her for a time. Her frail system, with the seeds of consumption already planted in it, could not endure the shock of the last bereavement, of some weeks since, and so she sank away and is to-day safely at rest with the loved ones gone before. As for the poor father and husband, the strongest heart would have ached at the sight of the three graves so close together - wife, children, all gone within three short years. Hackneyed words of comfort are out of place, but of sympathy all heart are full. They are ???, for the mother who has now left of thirteen children, only the oldest son and a little frail boy of ten years.
Obituary is published in the Spirit Lake Beacon, April 27, 1883 (Very faint print).
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*Note: Local library records have her maiden name as Baker, with the birth date of April 5, 1883 and death date of April 23, 1883.
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Wife of Joseph A. Willcox
(Married: Feb. 29, 1880, Milford, Dickinson Co., Iowa, and gives her maiden name as Barber.)
*Note: Joseph's parents are Ransom Robinson Willcox & Katherine Willcox.
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The funeral of Mrs. J. A. Wilcox was largely attended on Tuesday afternoon, and Rev. H. L. Smith delivered an eloquent discourse. The circumstances of her death were peculiary distressing. A child wife, married at the age of 16, having given back, one after the other, the two little ones God loaned to her for a time. Her frail system, with the seeds of consumption already planted in it, could not endure the shock of the last bereavement, of some weeks since, and so she sank away and is to-day safely at rest with the loved ones gone before. As for the poor father and husband, the strongest heart would have ached at the sight of the three graves so close together - wife, children, all gone within three short years. Hackneyed words of comfort are out of place, but of sympathy all heart are full. They are ???, for the mother who has now left of thirteen children, only the oldest son and a little frail boy of ten years.
Obituary is published in the Spirit Lake Beacon, April 27, 1883 (Very faint print).
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*Note: Local library records have her maiden name as Baker, with the birth date of April 5, 1883 and death date of April 23, 1883.
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Parents are Henry E. Barber Sr. and Lucinda Hines
Wife of Joseph A. Willcox
(Married: Feb. 29, 1880, Milford, Dickinson Co., Iowa, and gives her maiden name as Barber.)
*Note: Joseph's parents are Ransom Robinson Willcox & Katherine Willcox.
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The funeral of Mrs. J. A. Wilcox was largely attended on Tuesday afternoon, and Rev. H. L. Smith delivered an eloquent discourse. The circumstances of her death were peculiary distressing. A child wife, married at the age of 16, having given back, one after the other, the two little ones God loaned to her for a time. Her frail system, with the seeds of consumption already planted in it, could not endure the shock of the last bereavement, of some weeks since, and so she sank away and is to-day safely at rest with the loved ones gone before. As for the poor father and husband, the strongest heart would have ached at the sight of the three graves so close together - wife, children, all gone within three short years. Hackneyed words of comfort are out of place, but of sympathy all heart are full. They are ???, for the mother who has now left of thirteen children, only the oldest son and a little frail boy of ten years.
Obituary is published in the Spirit Lake Beacon, April 27, 1883 (Very faint print).
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*Note: Local library records have her maiden name as Baker, with the birth date of April 5, 1883 and death date of April 23, 1883.
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Wife of Joseph A. Willcox
(Married: Feb. 29, 1880, Milford, Dickinson Co., Iowa, and gives her maiden name as Barber.)
*Note: Joseph's parents are Ransom Robinson Willcox & Katherine Willcox.
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The funeral of Mrs. J. A. Wilcox was largely attended on Tuesday afternoon, and Rev. H. L. Smith delivered an eloquent discourse. The circumstances of her death were peculiary distressing. A child wife, married at the age of 16, having given back, one after the other, the two little ones God loaned to her for a time. Her frail system, with the seeds of consumption already planted in it, could not endure the shock of the last bereavement, of some weeks since, and so she sank away and is to-day safely at rest with the loved ones gone before. As for the poor father and husband, the strongest heart would have ached at the sight of the three graves so close together - wife, children, all gone within three short years. Hackneyed words of comfort are out of place, but of sympathy all heart are full. They are ???, for the mother who has now left of thirteen children, only the oldest son and a little frail boy of ten years.
Obituary is published in the Spirit Lake Beacon, April 27, 1883 (Very faint print).
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*Note: Local library records have her maiden name as Baker, with the birth date of April 5, 1883 and death date of April 23, 1883.
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