Obituary: Rock County, Wisconsin: John W. HENDRICKS ************************************************************************ Submitted by Ruth Ann Montgomery, February 2007 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ Old Resident Of Rock Co. Passes Away John W. Hendricks, a resident of Rock county for the past sixty years, died Friday afternoon at his home here. While Mr. Hendricks had not been in good health for several months, his rather sudden death came as a shock to his many friends throughout Rock county. He was born at Auburn, New York, April 13, 1843, and came to Rock county in 1856, locating in the town of Porter, where he lived until 1903, when he moved to Evansville and resided here until his death. He was married to Ellen Montgomery, of this city, on March 12, 1874, who survives him. Besides his widow he leaves to mourn his death, two sons and one daughter, Claude J. Hendricks, who formerly practiced law in Janesville, now of Milwaukee; John F. Hendricks, of Blue River, Wis.; and Mrs. Mary Ellen Hollister, of Henderson, Minn. One son, Fred, died a few years ago, just as he was arriving at manhood's estate. Funeral services were held at St. Paul's church at 10 o'clock, Monday morning. Interment was at Maple Hill cemetery. Rev. W. P. Mcdermott, who conducted the services said, in part: "John Hendricks was a good citizen. And by a good citizen I mean one who was good to his state, to the community in which he lived, not perhaps by the great things accomplished during his life, but by the ordinary things of every day life. "There are many men who in our day are called good citizens; men who serve the state, but who serve it merely for the good they can derive from it-- their service is a selfish service. These men are not good ciitzens. We need men who are prepared to give to the state of themselves, their futures and their lives if need be--not for what they can gain thereby, but for the good that will come to the community. When I say, therefore, that John Hendricks was a good citizen, I mean that he was a man who gave to the state a personal service, not perhaps in great things, but a service none the less that has been of advantage to his state. He was a good citizen." April 20, 1916, Evansville Review, p. 1, col. 1, Evansville, Wisconsin