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"Sarah Ann (Norris) Wood" OBITUARY of Owen Co, 14 Oct 1922
Sarah Ann (Norris) Wood was born in Newcomerstown, Ohio, January 13, 1845 and departed
this life
October 2nd, 1822, aged 77 years, 8 months and 19 days.
She united with the M. E. Church of this place under the pastorage of Rev. Merideth at
the age of
eleven years. She spent the able years of her life working in the church. Although
interested in
the church and its different organizations of the late years, she was kept away on
account of poor
health.
She was united in marriage to Jas. Wood on February 7, 1862 and to this union seven
children were
born, four whom, with the father, preceded her in death.
She hath lived her allotted three score and ten years and has witnessed the perils and
distress of
three wars, Civil, Spanish and World Wars. She helped to rear four families of children;
her doors
have been opened to all and her ministering to the sick has been unequaled.
She was cheerful and hopeful, looking ever at the brightest side of life's
surroundings. Even in
the darkest hours, when her body was racked with pain, there was a cheerfulness so that
there seemed
to be "sunshine in her soul," that could speak of death as "becoming
well."
She leaves to mourn their loss one brother, three children, thirty grandchildren,
twenty-nine
great-grandchildren and one great great grandchild.
" I cannot say, I will not say,
that she is dead - - she is just away!
With a cheery smile, and a wave of the hand,
She has wandered into an unknown land.
Think of her faring on, as dear
In the love of There as the love of here."
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Obituary of Owen Co, 30 April 1920
Elizabeth A. Long Wood
Elizabeth A. Long was born in Patricksburg, Owen Co, Indiana, March 8th, 1844. She
was
married to Thomas J. Wood, of Freedom, Indiana, November 10th, 1865, and to this union
were born
four children, Mrs. W.O. Hobert, of Long Island, Kansas; Mrs. G. B. Young, of Medford
Oregon; Mrs.
C. O. Wood, of Oxford Nebraska; Mrs. E. T. Weed, Long Island, Kansas. She removed with
her family
to Long Island, Kansas in 1892, where she resided until her death, Friday, April 30th,
1920, aged 76
years.
She took up her cross to follow Jesus at the age of twenty years and always kept the
faith.
After removing to Long Island, where there was no church of her denomination she became a
member of
the Methodist Episcopal church in 1908.
She leaves to mourn her loss, her husband, four children, three sisters, and four
brothers, ten
grand-children and four great grand-children.
The brothers and sisters are as follows:
Henry Long of Patricksburg, Indiana
Benj?? Long of Terre Haute, Indiana
J. I. Long of Spencer, Indiana
Will Long of Terre Haute, Indiana
Mrs. Lydia Wark, Independence, Kansas
Mrs. Amanda Medaris ?, Kirkspatrick, Indiana
Mrs. ???? part missing!
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