Joseph Hancock is buried in Oakwood Cemetery in Red Wing near his wives and two children.
JOSEPH W.
HANCOCK
BORN APR. 1816
DIED OCT. 1907
CAME TO RED WING
JUNE 1849 A MISSIONARY
TO THE DAKOTA INDIANS
IN THE SERVICE OF THE
A.B.C.F.M. ORGANIZED
THE PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH AND WAS ITS
FIRST PASTOR.