Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Wilcox, Henrietta (DuBois) (Kelsey) 1909
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Ionia Daily Sentinel, 15 Jun 1909

Mrs. Henrietta DuBois Wilcox died at her home in Ionia township on Thursday 
afternoon, June 10.  The funeral occurred on Saturday, June 12th, at 3 o’clock 
p.m., Rev. Jas. E. Wilkinson officiating.  Dr. Wilkinson’s remarks were based 
on the idea that the vision which led her while young to seek for better 
worldly conditions in the New West, was the same vision that had led her at 
last to her better home in heaven.

Mrs. James I. Williston and Mrs. Harry E. Spencer sang “Nearer my God to Thee,” 
and Beautiful Isle of Somewhere.”  The bearers were: Elmer S. Wolverton, Gordon 
Benedict, Edward B. Hamilton and Major A. P. Loomis, and burial was in the 
Balcom cemetery.

Those present from out of town were:  Mrs. Charles Stanton of Buffalo, N. Y., 
Mrs. Nina Houghtaling and daughter of Pottersville, Harry Brewer of Grand 
Rapids, Frank Stringham of Portland, Mrs. William Ramsey and daughter of 
Mulliken, Mrs. Ormon Brown of Portland, Mr. and Mrs. William Barber of 
Mulliken, Mrs. Dellenbaugh of Portland, and Mrs. Charles Holmes of Lake Odessa.

Harry Leavenworth Stanton of Chelsea being unable to attend, remembered 
deceased with a mass of roses, and Mrs. Lillian Kelsey-Pennell of Ann Arbor 
sent white lilies and ferns.

Mrs. Wilcox was the third daughter of Abram and Sarah (VanVoorhis) DuBois.  Her 
brothers and sisters, five in number, had preceded her to the other world, her 
twin brother, Henry, dying in infancy.

She was born in the town of Cohocton, Steuben County, N. Y., Nov. 4th, 1833.  
The DuBois family were of French extraction, and being Hugenots, they fled from 
persecution in France to Germany, and from thence came in company with other 
exiles, notably the DePeyster, LeRoys, and LeDeux, in 1689, and took up tracts 
of land of considerable extent in lower Dutchess County, New York, in the 
neighborhood of Livingston Manor.

On her mother’s side she was of pure German stock.  Her great-grandmother was a 
VanRennselaer.  With such an ancestry, it is not to be wondered at that she 
possessed some marked characteristics.

She never obtruded her views upon others, but the principles she had imbibed in 
early life she clung to with firmness and independence.  With her there was no 
middle ground.  Right was right and wrong was always wrong.

She was possessed of a patience and courage that carried her unfalteringly 
through the vicissitudes of life.  But what we shall miss most was her cheerful 
temperament.  There was always a smile for others, …[unreadable]… sorrows might 
be.

Although seldom attracted from her home by scenes of pleasure the call of 
affliction ever met from her a quick response.

In childhood she removed with her parents from Cohocton to Avon, N. Y.  In 1855 
she was married to Robert Treat Kelsey, and came soon after to Ionia.  Eight 
years later, without a moment’s warning, death snatched her companion from her 
side.

She was the mother of two children, Nellie, who died while an infant, and 
Robert Treat who passed away at the age of twenty.  In 1879 she was married to 
Addison R. Wilcox, of Fredonia, New York, who survives her.  She is also 
survived by a step-daughter, Myrta Wilcox, who has repaid her motherly care 
with the tenderest devotion.

And so in all the beauty of a perfect June day, kind hands bore her sadly from 
the home that had been hers for fifty-three years to the home that will be hers 
for the ages to come.  With the strains of “God be with you, till we meet 
again,” floating on the air we buried her beneath the beautiful floral tributes 
of her friends by the side of the husband of her youth.


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