Mary E. (Baker) Woodhouse (1828-1912)

BAKER, WOODHOUSE, MORSE, WRIGHT

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 9/6/2016 at 22:20:07

From Nevada Representative December 13, 1912 (front page)

Death of Mrs. Woodhouse.

Mrs. Woodhouse, the aged mother of Mrs. C. M. Morse, died at one-thirty this afternoon at the Morse home in this city, where she has been a resident for many years. She was eighty-six years of age, and had long been a sufferer from ills incident to old age. He death is not the result of any illness, and she has had only slight cold. She was the mother of large family, and arrangements as to the funeral yet await some advices from absent children.

From Nevada Representative December 1, 1912 (front page)

MRS. MARY WOODHOUSE.

Mrs. Mary Woodhouse, whose death occurred Friday afternoon at the home in this city of her daughter, Mrs. C. M. Morse, was born Mary Baker, May 24, 1828, the state of New Jersey, and she died December 12, 1912, at Nevada, Iowa, aged 84 years 6 months and 19 days. She was married to Samuel Woodhouse in Grant county, Wis., in the year 1850, and they spent the most of their married life in that county. The followed some their children in the latter '80's to Maxwell, and there Mr. Woodhouse died just twenty years before her. She had been living in Nevada with Mrs. Morse for ten or a dozen years. In her years of activity Mrs. Woodhouse was very useful woman. She reared a family of seven, of whom five survive, Mrs. John Wright of Lancaster, Wis., Falcon Woodhouse of Lawton, Okl., Henry Woodhouse of Portland, Oregon, and Mrs. Morse and Clinton B. Woodhouse of this city. Also there are two sisters and numerous grandchildren.

The funeral was conducted from the Morse home Sunday morning by Rev. Hardaway, and the interment was in the afternoon of the same day in the family lot at Maxwell. The only one of the absent relatives was able to be here for the funeral was a grandson, Oscar Wright, of Lancaster, Wis.