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Josephine Louise Wilcox Strain
16 Nov 1861 – 17 Dec 1928
| Birth | 16 Nov 1861 |
| Death | 17 Dec 1928 |
| Cemetery | Cottonwood Cemetery Burwell , Garfield County , Nebraska , USA |
| Added by | Lizzie on 06 Dec 2022 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/152477952 |
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Funeral Rites for Mrs. Josephine Strain - Burwell, Neb., Jan. 3, 1929 Funeral services for Mrs. Josephine Strain, whose death occurred Dec. 17, at the Soldiers' Home in Grand Island, were held from the Methodist church here Monday afternoon, Rev. W. W. Gettys officiating. Burial was in the Burwell cemetery. Josephine Wilcox was born Nov. 16, 1860, in Harden county, Ia., being aged 68 years at the time of death. She married Joseph W. Winans in Iowa November 22, 1874 (she was 14 and he was 26) and lived with her parents and husband in Antelope County, Nebraska. Joseph died in 1892. She was married to Marion Bliss about 1885, and to this union five children were born, two of whom died in infancy. The surviving children are Mrs. Fannie Swartz, of Cozad, Mrs. Ena Anderson, of Norfolk, and John Bliss, of Olympia, Wash. Mr. Bliss died in 1899. In the early 1900s she married a man by the last name of Smith. One daughter was born to this marriage, Eva. It is unknown what happened to Mr. Smith and how the relationship ended. Either death or divorce. By the time Josephine married David Strain, Eva was using Marion Bliss' last name and no longer the last name Smith. In 1909 she was married to David Strain, who passed away Nov. 1, 1927. A niece, Mrs. W. E. Rice, resides at Burwell. Mrs. Josephine L. Strain, 67, died at the Soldier's Home hospital at 7:30 o'clock Thursday evening, of hardening of the arteries and senility, after more than a year's illness. Mrs. Strain, a resident of Nebraska for forty years, was admitted to membership at Burkett in 1919 from Niobrara, in Knox county. Her husband has preceded her in death. Surviving are two sons, M. I. Strain, White River, S. Dak., A. M. Strain, Canning, S. Dak., and two daughters, Mrs. J. A. Post, Carter, S. Dak., and Mrs. Belle Sawyer, Winner, S. Dak. Arrangements for the funeral are incomplete. --------------------------- Note: David Strain's obituary mentions that he married "Mrs. Josephine Smith". They were married April 26, 1909 in Bon Homme Co., South Dakota. Both were shown as widowed. She was shown as age 48 and David as age 68.
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Siblings
- Oscar Wesley Fritzgallon Wilcox 1840–1925
- Elizabeth Wilcox Case 1842–1913
- Marquis De Lafayette "Lafayette" Wilcox 1842–1914
- Fanny Elvira Wilcox Dinnel 1844–1912
- Arista Wilcox 1856–1913
Children
- Sylvia Pearl Bliss 1889–1889 FaG
- John William Bliss 1892–1949 FaG
- Marie Bliss Swartz 1894–1930 FaG
- Eva Fern Smith Schofield Anderson Beckworth 1901–1982 FaG
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