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- Description:
- George B. Willcox sitting at office desk
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- Lyman George Willcox Papers
- Description:
- portrait
- Date Issued:
- 1893-09-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- Lyman George Willcox Papers
- Description:
- Azubah (Bingham) Willcox in gardens at home
- Date Issued:
- 1899-07-04T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- Lyman George Willcox Papers
- Description:
- sitting on porch of house
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- Lyman George Willcox Papers
- Description:
- Dear Sister It is with an aching Heart that I know Sitdown to write to yow Thare shall I find words to exspress the Grief I now feel I feel that the Hand of the Lord is Severe with me in afflicting He has Sevred from me the dearest object of my Heart. He has taken from me my companion He has taken the Wife of my She in whom the joy of my Heart was Sentered. She has gone to that Being in whom she Trusted and left me with three Infants to mourn the Loss of an affectionate Wife and a Mother. About the twentieth of July last she was seized with the Acute Rheumatism with Which She suffered all the distress and pane that Human Nature could endure for Several weeks when She recovered from this disseaze So far as to be able to doe some light work until four weeks Since When She took a cold and fell into a state of relaps which defied all the power of meiein and baffled all the Skill of her of her physicians. She sffered great distress through her whole illness yet She bore it with great patience and resignation, until Thursday Evening last at about nine oclock Her Struggles became to hard for for human Nature to bare and the Bandace of Mortality Ware Berst asunder and then Immortal Spirit, took its flight to the arms of that Jesus In whom She trusted a few moments before She exspired She paired her hands and exclaimed I am almost there yes said she there is Glory In Heaven I can see it I shall soon be there Yesterday at one oclock I followed Her Remains to the grave
And now Dear Sister I know not what to do on which way to turn When you read this you will view me left alone in a strange Land and among Strangers with three Small children the two eldest one twin boys three years and a half old and the youngist a girl seven months old Without a Brother or Sister near me or any other Relatives (except by Marage) to cosole my aching Heart In this hour of trial Dear Sister It would be an unspeakable Satisfaction to me if you could see it right and feel looking to come and Live with me and help me take care of my little motherless Children It would be the greatest thing you could due for them and me while we remain in In this friendly world. Hopey often requested me dureing her illness to write for one of my Sisters to come and live with me being Satisfied She Should never recover I Cannot bare the Idea of giving up my Children and have them Scattered abroad
If on the recit of this your Scircumstances and engagements would permit and you should think proper to come I think there would be no danger in crossing the Lake if you could get to Buffaloe by the twentieth of this Month for it is altogether touberable it will be Safer Crossing the Lake for a month than it has been for any part for what ouer exspence you might be he in getting here I Will make up to you. You may be asuned you Shall never loose anything by coming
Remember me to Sister Angelina if you know where she is also to all enquireing friends. It is twelve at Knight and I must leave to [bid] Adieu
Rochester November 3d H Willcox Lyman J. Willcox
[1833 in a later hand]
It will not proberablely cost you more 3 or 4 dollars to cross the lake I live in Rochester 25 Miles North of Detroit. Doe not fail to Write me as Soon as you Receive This Whiher you come or not
- Date Issued:
- 1833-11-03T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- Lyman George Willcox Papers
- Description:
- probably Minnie B. Willcox, daughter of Lyman George
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- Lyman George Willcox Papers
- Description:
- Lyman George Willcox
- Date Issued:
- 1888-02-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- Lyman George Willcox Papers
- Description:
- Oriskany Dec 7 1833
Dear Brother I have just perused your letter and learn to my great dissipointment and sorrow that you are bereft of your nearest and dearest friend is it possible she is gone and shall I never behold her who was so dear to you. I have indulged the idea that I should at some future time see you and your wife and children but my hopes are blasted. My dear brother to whom shall we look for comfort and support in the hour of adversity but to him who sustains and keeps us in existence he and he alone can comfort us in the time of greatest trouble we know he does not willingly afflict the children of men but our light afflictions which are but for a moment work out for us a far more exceding and eternal weight of glory no affliction for the present seemeth joyous but grievious nevertheless it afterwards yieldeth the peacible fruits of righteousness to them that are exercised thereby yes if we are rightly excercised by our afflictions they will tend to our everlasting good and we can say with david it was good for me to be afflicted for before I was afflicted I went astray. Dear Brother do not mourn for your wife but consider by your loss is her infinite gain if she trusted in her Savior as I humbly hope she did she is gone to dwell in his presence forever. She is far from the world of sin and sorrow and I am certain you cannot wish her to return again to this troubblesome world. Remember the Seperation is but short you must soon follow her and if you trust in the God who was her support in the hour of death you will then enjoy he society through a blissful Eternity I do take warning by this event to prepare for death. Life is the time to serve the Lord do not procrstinate the day of repentance death may soon come and in an hour that we think
Dear brother you may think I am insensible to your sorrow if I refuse to come and help you take care of your babes but I think it is a long journey for a female to undertak to go alone and I think that mother would not consent to have me go so far from home I should be very glad to see you and assist you in your trouble if I could. I wish you could come to this part of the country if you do not I do not know that I shall ever see you I am now at work at the taylors trade in Oriskany and I enjoy good health and that is one of the greatest of blessings Anjelina returned home to Watson in August and I have not heard from her since
This from your Sister H Willcox
I hope you will not forget to write often
- Date Issued:
- 1833-12-07T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- Lyman George Willcox Papers
- Description:
- Close-up of memorial inscription
- Date Issued:
- 1925-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- Lyman George Willcox Papers
- Description:
- House at 22 E. Jefferson, Ann Arbor, where George B. WIllcox probably resided as student
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- Lyman George Willcox Papers