The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1929-05-02
PRESLY HICOX rs
CALLED BY DEATH

Red Lodge entered into its death
records yesterday the name of one of
its best and most popular citizens
when the word spread about the city
that Presly G. HieoX had passed
away.
He died at 1915 p. m. Just after
the sun had passed the meredian; in
that busy hour of a radiant spring
day, when the hum of industry and
the laughter and prattle Of children
could be heard on the street outside,
a pallor came over his face and his
noble heart forgot to beat. Tired eve
! lids were drawn like purple curtains
over tired eyes; weary lips were
closed forever; there was only gasp
and sigh and he went to sleep like
q tired child.
He had been i'll for months, seri-
ously i'll, but he bore his sufferings
with a patience and fortitude that
characterized his whole life. All that
loving hearts and hands could offer
all that medical science could do was
done. Every day for months past
loyal, sympathetic friends called to
say word of cheer, and, be it said
that no man in all of Red Lodge had
more true friend than had Presly
Hicox. He possessed those rare quail
ties of mind and heart that drew
friends to him. He never grew old,
he was always cheerful and helpful
and hopeful. The mind of a man and
the heart of boy were his, until the
moment that the shadow Of an invis-
ible wing swept across his pillow
Perchance in that last lingering mo-
ment he lifted the veil from the mem
ories of vanished years, and as boy
stood again at the old homestead
back in rare old Illinois, looking upon
the familiar scenes Of his childhood
flooded with their wealth of happy
recollections.
Born in Brown county, Illionis on
May ID, 1856, educated in the public
schools of his native state he early
realized the opportunities the west
had to offer and in his early twenties
he migrated to Colorado where on
June 20, 1880, he was united in mar
riage to Miss Anna Lonax of Pueblo,
Colo. In 1898 he vowed to western
Montana and finally in 1885 he moved
with his family to Carbon county
where they have since resided.
Mr. and Mrs. Hicox were the par
ents of eight children. Leonard the |
eldest died in Colorado while his par
ents lived there and Robert the young
est died here in Red Lodge. Those |
are two daughters, Miss
Zulu Hicox of Butte and Mrs. Gladys I
Mayer of Red Lodge and four sons:
Roy and Scott Of Red Lodge; Paul of
Oklahoma City, Okla, and Charles of
Bremerton, Wash.
Aside from his children and his
faithful wife he is also survived by
ten grandchildren and two brothers,
Thomas S. Hicox of Alberta, Canada,
and Charles Hicox Of Hersman, Ill.
He was a loving father who was
idolized by his children, a faithful
husband whose rassing marks the
darkest hour ii the life Of her who
has been the object of his devotion 4
for nearly fifty years, true and loyal |
friend in need and indeed.
BIZ. whatever else may be said of
nim, he was an honest man. He
owed his friends and loyalty to them
and to duty was his creed. His good
ness was not Of the type that reaches
S highest manifestation in any cere-
nonial piety. 1t was the type that (
'inds expression in the handclasp, in
/ word of cheer to the discouraged, /
n quiet deeds of charity, in real |
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