Hancock County Historical Society
Carthage, Illinois

Siegfried V
Page 22

Mrs. Forrest Bivens
Dies at Hamilton

Funeral services for Mrs. Forrest Bivens, 66, of north of Hamilton, were held Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Hamilton funeral home, conducted by the Rev. Richard Brownfield.  Burial was in Oakwood cemetery.

Mrs. Bivens died Friday afternoon in her home.  A daughter of J. S. and Caroline Conn Bullock, she was born Dec. 19, 1886, near Blandinsville.  She was married to Forrest Bivens March 27, 1907.  They lived in Rock Creek township a number of years before moving to near Hamilton.

Surviving are her husband; two daughters, Mrs. Frank Kavanaugh of Hamilton and Mrs. Elmer Marks of Toledo, O.; three sons, Lowell of Vallejo, Calif., and Wendell and James of Tucson, Ariz.; and 18 grandchildren.

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