Published as it appeared on Jan. 18, 1912, in the Ingham County News (Mason, Mich.) via findagrave.com.
Obituary.
Edgar J. Hendricks died Dec. 29, 1911, at his home near Philomath, Oregon, of kidney disease, at the age of 69 years, 8 months and 17 days.
He was born in Clyde, Wayne county, N.Y., April 12, 1842. His parents moved to Michigan and settled on a farm near Dansville, where his boyhood was spent until the breaking out of the civil war in April, 1861. He enlisted for three years in the 67th N. Y. Vol. Infantry. At the expiration of that term of service he enlisted in the 10th Mich. Cavalry, serving until the close of the war, a period of over four years in all. He was a prisoner of war for over a year in Libby and Danville, Va, fought in most of the great battles on the Peninsula under Gen. McClellan, and later belonged to the 6th Army Corps, and was in all the battles in which they were engaged.
After the war he crossed the plains in a wagon train in 1866. Since that time he had lived in the west.
In 1869 he was married to Mary E. Grear of Williamston, Mich., who died in 1883, leaving one child, Mrs. Ella Maxson, of Talent, Ore.
In 1885 he was married to Mellie Gettle of Live Oak, Cal. Six children were born to them, all of whom were with him at the time of his death.
Of his brothers and sisters four survive him, Mrs. Emma Wilkie, Montesano, Wash.; Elbert D. Hendricks, near Oroville, Cal.; Mrs. F. H. Norton, Cornelius, Ore., and Eber A. Hendricks, Beaverton, Oregon.