Sophia (Jukes) Wood

WOOD, JUKES, BURNS, RICKER, GROOVER, PARSONS

Posted By: LuAnn (Wentworth) Goeke (email)
Date: 8/19/2010 at 19:22:41

Thursday - April 14, 1902 - Jackson Sentinel of Maquoketa, Iowa

Mrs. Sophia Wood died April 2, 1902, at 11:00 a.m. at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Robert Burns after a brief illness of pneumonia. Sophia Jukes was born in Warrick County, Indiana, October 28, 1825. In the year 1840 she was married to Thomas Wood, and they came immediately to Jackson County and took up their abode near Buckhorn until the death of her husband in 1883. Eleven children were born, four of whom, Mrs. Minerva Ricker of Nashville, Iowa, Mrs. Sarah Groover of Rowley, Iowa, Joseph Wood of Troy Mills, Iowa, and Mrs. Robert Burns of this city, survive. The deceased was a faithful Christian and a member of the Free Methodist Church. Funeral services were conducted in the Buckhorn Church by Rev. Parsons, and the remains were interred beside her husband. She was buried in Buckhorn Cemetery, Jackson Co., Iowa. Free Methodist Church. She was Free Methodist.