Obituary: Mary McCullough-Daley
Thursday, June 29, 2006
1956-2006
Shawnee
Mary Patrice McCullough-Daley, 49, of Shawnee, died Saturday, June 24, 2006, at Shawnee Mission Medical Center, Merriam. A mass of Christian burial will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Thursday at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Johnson Drive and Monticello Road. Burial will follow in St. Paul's Cemetery in Delphos, Kan. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at the Alden-Harrington Funeral Home in Bonner Springs. The rosary will be said at 8 p.m.
Mrs. McCullough-Daley was born Sept. 13, 1956, in Denver, Colo., and moved to Goodland, Kan., when she was 11 years old. She graduated from Goodland High School and later received her undergraduate degree from the University of California at Davis and a post-graduate degree from Regis University in Denver. She worked as a clinical psychologist at several mental health facilities throughout her career. She was a Catholic, and enjoyed her educational pursuits as well as writing poetry and reading English literature.
She was preceded in death by her mother, Mary Clare (Hally) McCullough, in 2004. Survivors include her son, Evan Daley, and his father, Dennis Daley, both of Alta Loma, Calif.; her father, Dr. Robert Charles McCullough of Tonganoxie; four sisters, Eileen Mary Brunnemer, Eudora; Maureen Elizabeth Davidson, Tonganoxie; Sheila Anne McCullough, Jetmore, Kan.; and Marie Coleen Janner, Shawnee; three brothers, Kevin Michael McCullough, Goodland; Patrick Joseph McCullough, Las Vegas, Nev.; and Finnian Christopher McCullough, Shawnee.
Arrangements: Alden-Harrington Funeral Home, 214 Oak St., Bonner Springs KS 66012 (913) 422-4074.
MRS. M. WILCOX,
FIRST OF EARLY
SETTLERS , DIESCame to Cloud County with
Her Parents in 1864 Ùv
Was 83 Years
of Age
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Mrs. Matt Wilcox, one of the prominent women of cloud County, and a resident of this vicinity for 64 years died, Friday evening at her home,m521 West Ninth Street, after a long illness. Mrs. Wilcox was 83 years old..
Mrs. Wilcox, whose maiden name was Rosella Honey, was the daughter of Randall and Polly Honey, who were on of the first eight families to settle in Cloud County. Randall Honey and his family came to Cloud County in 1864 from Wisconsin, and they homesteaded on Elm Creek. At that time there was no town of Concordia, and the
nearest post office and stores were 60 miles away. The county was a true frontier, and only the pioneers who braved the hardships of the new land appreciate their lives here. Mrs. Wilcox's father hewed the logs for his own house, and built the house for his family. Indian raids were common, herds of buffalo roamed the prairie, and there were countless other privations and hardships to be endured. Miss. Honey was married in 1865 to W. Mi. Wilcox, at her home on Elm Creek. Mr. And Mrs. Wilcox were the first couple married in the county. Mrs. Wilcox for several terms taught the Elm Creek School, the first district school in the county and her life was closely associated in every way with the development of county history. Surviving Mrs. Wilcox are her husband, and these children: Mrs. D. C. Halley, of Wallace, Ida; Mrs. L. J. Coberly, of Toledo, Wash; Charles W. Wilcox of the home here; Chet Wilcox of Havana, Cuba; Mrs. Hermann, of Oak Park, Ill.; Herman, of Houston, Tex.; and
Vern, of Jamestown. All the children are in Concordia, and were with their mother at the time of death.
Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock from the residence, and internment will be in Ames cemetery.OBITUARY (2)
MRS. MATT WILCOX DIES
Mrs. Matt Wilcox, one of the earliest pioneer women of Cloud County, died at her home on West Ninth street, Friday evening, following an illness of several months. She was 83 years of age at the time of her death.
Rosella Honey, was the daughter of Randall and Polly Honey and was born in Trumble county, Ohio, June 16, 1845. The family moved to Cloud County in 1864 and was one of the first eight families to settle in this county. This was in the earliest pioneer days of this county and the Honey family experienced the trials of the first settlers. Miss. Honey was married to W. M. Wilcox in 1865 at her home in Elm Creek and they were the first
couple to be married in the county. Mrs. Wilcox taught the first district school in the county, the one at Elm Creek.Mrs. Wilcox is survived by her husband and by the following children who were with her at her death: Mrs. D.C. Halley of Wallace, Ida., Mrs L. J. Coberly of Toledo, Wash., Charles W. Wilcox of the home here, Chet Wilcox of Havana, Cuba, Mrs. H.C. Herman of Oak Park, Ill., Herman Wilcox of Houston, Texas, and Vern Wilcox of Jamestown. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock from the residence, and burial was made in the Pleasant Hill cemetery.
tomb stone "ordered by O.S.Morley". Cem search by Wm and Leona Honey.
IGI 23 Aug 1995
CLYDE AREA CENTENNIAL 1866-1966 OFFICIAL SOUVENIR BOOKLET. Hon 1-46a. TOWN OF CLYDE . "In May 1866, a party of five traveled from the 'Elk Creek Settlement'. where Clyde is now situated, to the present town of Washington, then only a log hut. The member of the party we are interested in, is Miss Rosella Honey, who was seeking Mr. Horfine, superintendent of Washington County, for the purpose of taking a teacher's examination. There were no roads, only the paths of buffalo or the dim trail made by an occasional wagon. On this first venture they became lost. The second attempt was successful. The next month Miss Honey began school in what was known as the Elm Creek School, taught in a log house. Among the distinguished visitors during the term was a tribe of Otoe Indians. There was an enrollment of eighteen pupils and for teaching these "young ideas how to shoot", Miss Honey received eight dollars per month. The term was three months in length and the last day was celebrated by the marriage of the teacher to W. M. Wilcox." CLYDE GRADE SCHOOL. "The building of the first Elk Creek community school was commenced on July 14, 1866. The plans called for the construction of a building sixteen feet by twenty-two feet. It was to be constructed of hewed logs and was to have a dirt roof and a cottonwood floor. Each settler was assessed four dollars to pay for the construction....These first schools were required to have a three month term before they could receive state funds."
SARAH QUILTER email 5/21/00 Matt ( William Mathewson Wilcox) reported that he met Rosella Honey there where she was the onlyschoolteacher in the region and that she married him because he was the only fellow in the county who could spell his name. He also reported that he played the fiddle for dances around the region and my mother actually heard him (William Mathewson) play. [See notes for William Mathewson and for Sarah McAnulty Quilter for additional info]
1870 US Census Buffalo Twp, Cloud, KS taken 9 Jul 1870 in Morley notebook p 65
had 4 children-all boys
His parents were Chester Wilcox and Amy, Amie, Anna or Emma Andrews. They had a number of children,both in New York state, in Ohio and possibly in Iowa. The children are EphraimA.
b.abt. 1826 in New York or possibly in western Mass. around West Stockbridge, more likely Mayfield, NY near Mayfield. As a young man he lived in SangamonCounty, Illinois and enlisted in the Mexican/American war and
was, for a short time in Mexico. Upon returning to the US he died.My mother has a small notebook in which he recorded what equipment he took with him to Mexico. We thinkthat Chester and Amy(?) were residing near Springfield around the time he enlisted and might have used the land grant which he received for serving in thearmyto purchase land near Oskaloosa, Iowa. Next child was Thomas J.(Jefferson?) Wilcox, b. abt 1827 in NY.He was somewhat of a ne'r-do-well and may have livednear Galesburg, Ill. He served in the Union army but was arrested in Memphis for stealing vegatables from some officer's garden. What happened to him weknownot. Then came George Washington Wilcox, who was born abt. 1828 maybe in East Bloomfield, New York. He married Mary or Maria Bradford and lived in Cloud County, Kansas. They had at least one child, Emma Cordelia b.?, d. 20 Ap.1933 Hollis, Cloud Co. Kansas m. John Bowersox, 1883. I believe that they hadother children. George's obituary recalls that his family lived near Springfield, Illinois when he was young and that he knew and saw Abe Lincoln before hebecamefamous.George may have been a steam boat man and I think a son of his was killed in a train accident (he was an employee as were several other familymembers). Then there was Ora Miranda Wilcox and Cordelia and I'm not sure inwhat order.In 1834, Willis Chester Wilcox, my great grandfather, was born
inOhio (some say Galliopolis). He was followed in birth by Stephen Hubbard Wilcox, William Mathewson Wilcox, Josephine(?) and Ephraim Alexander? Wilcox. Chester and Amy(?) apparently named another child Ephraim because their older sonhad died. I believe that Josephine and Ephraim were born in Mahaska County, Iowa around 1850. Unfortunately, Chester and Amy both died there around 1854 and1855. The older children, Willis Chester and Cordelia pitched in to take careof Stephen Hubbard, William Matthewson, Ephraim and
maybe Josephine. When theCivil War came along William and Stephen both enlisted. Matt, at least, was sent to Shiloh where he may have been a drummer boy. He way definitely woundedand showed his wound to my mother
and her sister and brother when they met him. His time in thearmy is recounted to some degree in his obituary in the local Kansas paper. Meantime, his brother Willis Chester (having returned from Oregon where he wentseeking
gold) stayed in Oskaloosa and married Sarah Elizabeth Roberts (for whom I am named) who was of Welsh heritage (Father David Roberts and mother AmyEvans of Lima, Ohio.They proceeded to farm in the Iowa region, have children,the last of whom was my grandmother, Maude Wilcox b. Oskaloosa, 1881. Unfortunately, her father, Willis Chester, died about six months before she was born.That is why my grandmother never knew much about her father'sfamily and had a craving to know. It's interesting that although my great grandfather, Willis Chester was educated, served in some county offices, was anauctioneer, etc. hiswife, Sarah, could not read and write. On the other hand,she was a folk healerand midwife. My grandmother taught her own mother to read in later life. My grandmother was educated and became a secretary for a mining company based in Des Moines and when the company moved their base of operations to south centralIllinois in the 1890s or circa 1900, my grandmother andher mother went with them to Gillespie, Illinois.