Rock County, Nebraska; Biography, George Johnson Wick & Bessie May Sybrant Wick

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Biography extracted for the NEGenWeb Archives by 
Bev Hopkins, yellowhawk_51@webtv.net 

Title: Rock County, Nebraska, Centennial, 1888-1988.

Published by Centennial Book Committee - 1987
Copyright 1987 by Rock County Centennial Book Committee and Rock County 
Historical Society

 Biography of George Johnson Wick and Bessie May Sybrant Wick

 Bessie May Sybrant was born at Guys Mills, Pennsylvana May 29, 1869 to
 David and Lucretia Sybrant.  She married George Johnson Wick in 1888.
 She and her husband came to Rock County, Nebraska in 1898.  They
 purchases land 22 miles south of Bassett, making their home in a sod
 hous.  There were 5 children born to George and May : William (Bill) G.,
 Jesse M, Leanno K., Floyd R. and Herbert L.

 May and her husband operated a little country store and cream station
 and the Sybrant Post Office.  They moved to Long Pine for 14 years where
 George carried the mail and May cooked in the North Western Eating House. 
 They then returned to thier home place.  May was a mid-wife to many in
 the area delivering some 78 babies. When her husband passed away , she
 and her son Jesse remained on the home place.  The last 2 years of her
 life she was about helpless and her son Jesse cared for her.  She never
 complained and Jesse was faithful through it all.  She passed away at
 her home, which was her wish, on December 1, 1954.
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