Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Luick, Maria Louisa (Wilson) 1924
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Belding Banner-News, 16 Apr 1924

Pioneer Woman Passes Quickly After Her Fall.

Wrote Own Obituary In 1913 with Orders To Have It Printed.

One of the real pioneer women of Otisco township passed out of existence Friday
night at about ten o’clock, when Mrs. John Luick, aged 91 years answered the
last summons and died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. James H. Parks, on W.
Ellis avenue.  While her mind had been practically that of a child for a few
years back, Mr. Luick’s health had been fairly good until she fell out of bed a
short time ago and this is supposed to have been the cause of her death, her
extreme old age making it impossible for her to withstand the shock of falling.

Maria Louisa Wilson was born February 22, 1833 in Nunda, Livingston county, New
York, and moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan with her parents in 1843.  She was
married to John Luick, January 22, 1849 and to this union eleven children were
born; her husband and three sons and three daughters having preceded her in death.

Those who have died in recent years are:  Mrs. Levi Tuttle, Mrs. Emma Brown and
Frank J. Luick and those who are left to mourn their mother are:  David Luick,
of Pontiac; Mrs. Jas. H. Parks and Henry H. Luick, of Belding, Mrs. Etta Riker,
of Montague and Mrs. Jas. Gore, of Lansing, also twelve grand children and
sixteen great grand children.

Her father, Stephen Wilson, took up from the government, the old homestead three
miles west of Belding, which later her husband bought and where her children
were born.

In 1895, owing to failing health her husband gave up farming and bought the home
on S. Pleasant street where they lived until his death in 1907.  For the past
six years she has made her home with Mrs. Jas. Parks.

Hers was a long, beautiful life of faithful service and self sacrifice – a
devoted wife and mother, a loyal friend, loved and respected by all who knew her. 

In December 1918, Mrs. Luick wrote her own obituary, giving it to her son Frank
J. Luick, the then editor and publisher of the old Belding News with
instructions that he publish it as she had written it.  Mr. Luick died last year
but when he realized he was going to pass out of this life before his mother
did, he forwarded the obituary to the editor of the Banner-News with
instructions that the writing be kept until after his mother’s death and then
published.  This we have done and story of this pioneer’s life as she had
written it is hereby published even though it is practically a reproduction of
the foregoing.
	“Louisa Maria Wilson, born February 22, 1833, in Nunday, Livingston Co., N.Y. 
Came with her parents to Mich. in 1845.  They took up government land in Otisco.
 After her mother’s death she kept house for her father until Jan. 1849, when
she married John Luick.  He owned land adjoining her father’s and he build a log
house right in the woods.  Later they bought the father’s farm so they could get
out to the road and have more land and a larger farm with orchards and plenty to
feed and school a large family of children, 5 boys and 6 girls, all born on the
farm.  Little Laura R. Luick, born Nov. 8, 1851 was the first one to pass away,
Jan. 6, 1854.  Fred A. Luick, born Nov. 28, 1856, died Sept. 18, 1865.  Willie
A. Luick, born March 28, 1855, died Apr. 20, 1879.  Katherine L. Luick, born
Nov. 10, 1858, died in Belding, April 9th, 1918 and John Luick, my husband, born
Jan. 27, 1829, in Germany, died March 20, 1907 in Belding.  They are all buried
in the Otisco cemetery and I am waiting patiently my appointed time.”

Funeral services were held from the house Monday afternoon with Rev. H. S. Ellis
officiating and burial was in Otisco cemetery by the side of those who have been
waiting for her so long on the other shore.

Relatives from away who were here to attend the funeral were:  Mr. and Mrs.
James Gore and daughter, Leona, of Lansing; David F. Luick of Pontiac, Mrs. Etta
Riker, of Montague; John Riker and wife, Addo Riker and wife and Harry Tuttle
and family, of Greenville; Levi Riker and Royal Riker and wife, of Grand Rapids,
and Mrs. Charles Wendlandt, of South Bend, Indiana.


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