Ella Wheeler 
Ella was born on November 5th, 1850 in Johnstown, Wisconsin. Ella's father was Marcus Hartwell Wheeler and her mother was Sarah Pratt. Her paternal grandparents were Amos Wheeler and Eunice Hosford; her maternal grandparents were William Pratt and Abigail Connor. She had two brothers and a sister, named Marcus Pratt, Edward Gilman and Sarah Anne. She was the youngest of the four children. She died at the age of 68 on October 30th, 1919 in Short Beach, Connecticut.General Notes
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler (b. Johnstown Center, Wis., Nov. 5, 1850--d. Oct. 30, 1919), poet, novelist. Mrs. Wilcox, whose work is rife with platitudes and sentimentality, was in her day an extremely "marketable" poetess. Lloyd Morris gave the most effective description of her in Postscript to Yesterday (1947): "A stately figure, Mrs. Wilcox was softly enveloped by plumes, chiffons, and Oriental metaphysics. Her life was blameless, but her imagination simmered. Over the land millions of women throbbed to her verses." She wrote a sentimental novel when she was ten, her first essay was published when she was fourteen, and her first poem not long after. She tried college for a while, but didn't like it and turned to newspaper work. When her Poems of Passion (1876) appeared, the work became famous overnight, because of its "daring" quality, and her reputation was made. Mrs. Wilcox published more than forty volumes from Drops of Water (1872) to The Worlds and I (1918). Most of these were verse, some were fiction, two were autobiographical. The most famous of her poems is Solitude, which begins: "Laugh and the world laughs with you,/ Weep and you weep alone."
Herzberg, Max J. (ed.)
The Reader's encyclopedia of American literature.
New York: Crowell, 1962.
p. 1229 and 314
For more biographical information and the poetry of Ella Wheeler Wilcox see: http://www.ellawheelerwilcox.org/
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.28 Mar 1664 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts d.1725 in Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts
- b.21 Jun 1702 in Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts d.01 Mar 1782 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts
- b.28 Oct 1666 in Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts d.> 1719
- b.02 Nov 1740 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts d. in Gilead, Oxford County, Maine
- b.~ 1680
- b.~ 1708 in Suffolk, Dorchester, Massachusetts d.09 Nov 1782 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts
- b.14 Jun 1762 in Gilead, Oxford County, Maine d.04 Feb 1836 in Thetford, Orange, Vermont
- b.~ 1742 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts d. in Gilead, Oxford County, Maine
- b.14 Jul 1808 in Thetford, Orange, Vermont d.25 Jan 1898 in Westport, Wisconsin
- b.21 Jun 1743 in Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut d.03 Nov 1819 in Thetford, Orange, Vermont
- b.31 Mar 1767 in Thetford, Orange, Vermont d.23 Jan 1849 in Thetford, Orange, Vermont
- b.28 Dec 1717 in North Brookfield, Worcester, Massachusetts d.09 Nov 1804 in Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut
- b.19 JAN 1743/44 in Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut d.30 Aug 1826 in Thetford, Orange, Vermont
- b.16 MAR 1690/91 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut d.17 Oct 1761 in Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut
- b.25 Nov 1723 in Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut d.15 Feb 1784 in Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut
- b.16 May 1699 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut d.11 Dec 1778 in Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut
- b.05 Nov 1850 in Johnstown, Wisconsin d.30 Oct 1919 in Short Beach, Connecticut
- b.~ 1750 in Bradford, Vermont
- b.~ 1780 in Bradford, Vermont
- b.~ 1750 d.1841 in Bradford, Vermont
- b.15 Nov 1814 in Bradford, Vermont d.26 Mar 1906 in Short Beach, Connecticut
- b.~ 1790 in Boston, Massachusetts
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Ella and Robert Marcus were married in a religious ceremony on May 1st, 1884 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. They had a son named Robert.
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Children
Robert Wilcox
Robert was born on May 27th, 1887 in Meriden, Connecticut. He died on May 27th, 1887 in Meriden, Connecticut.
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