Jerry Wilcox Called

Jerry Wilcox, well-known and for over fifty years a resident of this county, passed to the great beyond at his home east of Tekamah on last Sunday.

Deceased was bout sixty years of age and came to county from Illinois with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wilcox, when but a mere child of perhaps five or six years.

He is the last of the family of children to go, the father having died several years ago. He leaves to mourn him a wife and several children and the aged mother who made her home with him. Jerry Wilcox was a good, conscientious man and had many friends in the neighborhood where he formerly resided and grew to manhood.

About two years ago he left the old home place about eight miles south of Blair, where he had spent the major part of his life and moved up on the Arizona bottoms east of Tekamah, where he has been engaged in farming.

The funeral services were held in Tekamah this morning at ten o’clock and the body was brought to Blair where it was met by many of the old friends and neighbors in this locality who followed it to its last resting place in the Blair Cemetery, thus showing their last respect for their neighbor who had preceded them to the great beyond.

#2-Published in the Blair Democrat March 8, 1917

Death Claims Jerry Wilcox at Tekamah

The remains of the late Jerry Wilcox were brought down from Tekamah yesterday afternoon and interred in the Blair Cemetery.

Mr. Wilcox died Saturday, March 3, 1917, of pneumonia at his farm home nine miles northeast of Tekamah after an illness of but a week. He was born in Hancock County, Ill., about sixty-six years ago, and in and early day came to this county with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Wilcox, and resided on a farm about nine miles south of Blair up to three years ago, when he sold the old place and moved to Blair, spending a year here, then moving to the farm where he died near Tekamah. He is survived by his wife, three sons, Preston, Marshall and Walter, and two daughters, Bertha and Goldie, the latter being Mrs. Clyde McDonald, of Tekamah. His mother also survives him.

Obituaries courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska. FindaGrave 203566654