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- Oscar B. Robbins' book, pg 18 states that Mary Burwell Jackson died 5 Mar 1867 but the 1880 census appears to prove that is an error. Mary B. Wood is recorded living with her family in Dover, Morris Co., NJ in 1880. See her obit below.
1850 Census, Rockaway, Morris Co., New Jersey
Freeman Wood 41 M Farmer NJ
Mary B. Wood 31 F NJ
William J. Wood 14 M NJ
Susan L. Wood 11 F NJ
Anna W. Wood 8 F NJ
John S. Wood 5 M NJ
Charles Finney 50 M Laborer Ireland
Allice Mulligan 20 F NJ
1860 Census Rockaway, Morris, New Jersey
(pgs 80 & 81)
Freeman Wood 57 M retired Iron Master 8,000. 1000. NJ
Mary B. Wood 48 f birth state n/g
William J ----- 24 M attorney 10,000. 500. n/g
Susan L. 22 F
Anna W. 19 F
John F. 14 M
Florence 9 F
J Clements Wood 6 M NJ
Charles Tinney 75 M laborer Ireland
Catherine Oflerity 22 F domestic Ireland (image looks like O'Flarety to me)
Apparently this enumerator does not write in the birth state unless it changes from the prior line.
1870 Census Frenchtown, Hunterdon Co., New Jersey
Wood, Freeman 61 M W iron mfg amt n/g 10,000 NJ
Wood, Mary B. 58 F W keeping house 25,000 3,000 NJ
Wood, John F. 23 M W Rets merchant amt n/g 12,000 NJ
Wood, Florence M. 19 F W at home NJ
Wood, Clement 16 M W NJ
Moor, Jane 27 F W domestic Servant Ireland
1880 Census, District 131, Dover, Morris Co., New Jersey
Wood, Freeman W M 70 head married Justice of the Peace NJ NJ NJ
Wood, Mary B. W F 67 wife married keeping house NJ NJ NY
Neff, Susan M. W F 40 daughter married at home NJ NJ NJ
Neff, Stewart W M 14 grand-son single at home NJ OH NJ
Sexton, Delia W F 19 Servant single NY Ireland Ireland
Note received 9 Sep 2009, from Anthony L. Troha, Ph.D. of the Canal Society of New Jersey:
Mary Burwell Jackson Wood's original obituary can be found at http://rtlibrary.org/iron_era/1899/1899-08-25.pdf , but it is difficult to read, so I have transcribed it for you:
Obituary of Mrs. Mary Burwell Wood née Jackson
from "The Iron Era" of Friday, August 25, 1899 (Volume XXIX, Number 40, Page 4, Column 2) published in Dover, Morris County, New Jersey
Wood - In Orange, N. J., at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Albridge C. Smith, on Wednesday, August 23, 1899, Mrs. Freeman Wood, widow of Judge Freeman Wood. Funeral services will be held at No. (illegible) Lincoln avenue, Orange, at 1 o'clock p.m. Saturday, August 26. Interment in Rockaway on arrival of 2 o'clock train from New York.
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"Wood
The many Dover friends of Mrs. Mary B. Wood, widow of the late Judge Freeman Wood, will regret to learn of her death which took place on Wednesday night of this week at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Albridge C. Smith, in Orange. Mrs. Wood was born at Rockaway on August 3, 1812 and was married there in 1831. She was the daughter of William Jackson and Susan D. Halsey Jackson and spent the most of her life in this vicinity. She was for many years a member of the Dover Presbyterian Church. Judge Wood took up his residence here in the Spring of 1872 and since his death in 1891, Mrs. Wood made Dover her home until last fall when on account of her advanced age she went to Orange to live with her daughter. The funeral services will be held at [address illegible; it may say "318"] Lincoln avenue, Orange, on Saturday at 1 p.m. Interment will be made in Rockaway Cemetery at 4 p.m."
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