----Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook Collection, Marshfield News Herald 02/18/1956

Wilcox, Hesper Lillian (1866 - 1956)

GREENWOOD, CLARK COUNTY--Mrs. Bert Wilcox, former Greenwood resident, died at 1:30 a.m. today, Feb. 18, 1956 at the home of her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Forest Chadwick, at Conewango Valley, N.Y., where she had lived since last spring. The 89-year-old woman suffered a stroke on Friday.

Serices will be held at Conewango Sunday and on Tuesday the body will arrive here for final rites and burial that day. As yet now definite time or place for the local rites has been set. The Rev. Ethel Nulton, pastor of the Methodist Church, will officiate and interment will take place in the Greenwood Cemetery.

Mrs. Wilcox was born Hesper Lillian Bigelow Oct. 28, 1866, in McHenry County, Ill., and was married to Mr. Wilcox at Woodstock, Ill., On Dec. 24, 1885. They came to Clark County in 1911 and settled on a farm near Tioga, living there for six years before moving to Greenwood in 1917. They observed their 60th wedding anniversary here in 1945.

Since her husband's death in Oct. 1948, Mrs. Wilcox had spent the winter months with her children and the summer at her home here until she went to New York last spring.

In addition to her daughter, Mrs. Pearl Chadwick, she is survived by seven other children, Mrs. Emil (Maude) Siemer, Denver, Colo. Clarence Wilcox, Prairie du Sac Waite Wilcox, Syracuse, Kan. James Wilcox, Randolph, N.Y. Clark Wilcox, Elkhorn Homer Wilcox, Cattaraugus, N.Y. and Mrs. Floyd (Helen) Christie, Greenwood.

Also surviving are a brother, John Bigelow, Minnesota and 36 grandchildren .(the rest of my copy was cut off)