Ella (Wheeler) Wilcox (1850 - 1919)

Born 5 Nov 1850 in Johnstown, Polk, Wisconsin, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Robert Marius Wilcox — married 1 May 1884 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin , USA

Died 30 Oct 1919 at age 68 in Short Beach, Branford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States

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Biography

Ella (Wheeler) Wilcox is Notable.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet. Her best-known work was Poems of Passion. Her most enduring work was "The Way Of The World", which contains the lines, "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone". Her autobiography, The Worlds and I, was published in 1918, a year before her death.

She was born in 1850 on a farm in Johnstown, Wisconsin, east of Janesville, the youngest of four children. The family soon moved north of Madison. She started writing poetry at a very early age, and was well known as a poet in her own state by the time she graduated from high school.

On May 1, 1884, she married Robert Wilcox in Milwaukee, Wisconsin . They had one child, a son, who died shortly after birth.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox died in Connecticut in 1919; she is buried in the Wilcox Estate Burial Site, Short Beach, New Haven County, Connecticut.

Research Notes

Ella claimed descent on her mother's side from Pocahontas.

Sources

• Wikipedia: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
• Ella's last Will and Testament
• "The Evolution of Ella Wheeler Wilcox and other Wheelers" by Marcus P. Wheeler.
• The Story of a Literary Career by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
• Obituary in The New York Times Friday, October 31, 1919

• The Worlds and I, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (New York: George H. Doran Company, 1918).

Note: This is Wheeler's autobiography. it is freely available at The Internet Archive (archive.org); accessed 9 December 2021.

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6875040/ella-wilcox : accessed 9 December 2021), memorial page for Ella Wilcox (5 Nov 1850–30 Oct 1919), Find a Grave Memorial ID 6875040, citing Wilcox Estate Burial Site, Short Beach, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA ; Maintained by Find a Grave .