Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 263, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1919 — ELLA WHEELER WILCOX, FAMOUS WRITER, DEAD. [ARTICLE]

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX, FAMOUS WRITER, DEAD.

Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox, author and poet, died at her home, the Bungalo, in Branford, N. Y., Thursday. Mrs. Wilcox had been ill for months. She suffered a nervous collapse while engaged in war relief Work in England. Mrs. Wilcox was the writer of thousands of poems and was one of the most beloved women in America. Her works were widely read throughout America and Europe, The last terr years of her life Mrs. Wilcox became deeply imbued with the philosophy of the East. She talked and wrote of reincarnation, and during one Of her recent visits to France she saw the home in which as a frivolous girl she had lived. She said: “I wasted mylife in pleasure seeking in that incarnation. That is the reason I was placed in the next incarnation on a farm in the northwest. , I had to .atone for the frivolities of my former-life.” Mrs. Wilcox was ;born on a Wisconsin farm in the year 1855, where her early girlhood was spent.