Juliet Elizabeth (Wilson) Wood (1844-1942)

WILSON, WOOD, MILLS, KIRBY, KING, MCCLINTOCK, ADAMS, BROWN, COLE

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 5/17/2021 at 16:53:13

From Nevada Evening Journal June 29, 1942 (page 3)

Pioneer Woman Called by Death at Maxwell Sunday

Maxwell, June 29-- Mrs. Juliette Wood, widow of the late Jesse Wood, Civil War veteran and one of the real pioneers of Indian Creek township, died Sunday afternoon at her home in Maxwell. Mrs. Wood would have been 98 years of age in September.

One son Harve Wood, died in November of last year and she leaves four daughters, they being Mrs. Etta Mills of Kansas City, Mrs. Charles Kirby of Orland, Calif., Mrs. Anna King who lived at the home with her mother and Mrs. Fred W. McClintock of Maxwell.

Besides these she leaves a large number of grandchildren and other relatives in addition to wide circle of friends.

The Wood family was one the real pioneers of the county coming here in an early day and settling in the Iowa Center neighborhood.

Funeral rites for Mrs. Wood will be from the Maxwell church of Christ Tuesday afternoon at 3:30, with her pastor Rev. H. C. Darling in charge. Interment will be in the Maxwell cemetery.

She was a native of Lincoln county, Ohio and made the trip west with her parents in a covered wagon*, locating in this neighborhood in 1851 and it was here that she was married to Jesse Wood, who preceded her in death 37 years ago.

*SUBMITTER'S NOTE: Juliet Elizabeth (Wilson) Wood was a native of Licking County, Ohio. Juliet Wilson and her sister, Henrietta Wilson, came west to Story County in 1856 with their maternal aunt and uncle, Daniel Russell Brown and Nancy Eliza Adams, who raised them both to womanhood. Juliet Wilson and her sister, Henrietta, are listed in the Brown household in the 1860 Nevada, Story County, Iowa census.

Juliet and Henrietta Wilson were the daughters of Alfred B. Wilson and Anna B. Adams. Anna (Adams) Wilson and Nancy Eliza (Adams) Brown were sisters, therefore the aunt of the girls.

Juliet's sister, Henrietta Wilson married Nathaniel Cole, also a Civil War veteran, and they both the Wilson girls married and made their homes in Story County, Iowa.