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Chase County Obituaries
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Wood, Clarence David
C. D. WOOD FUNERAL
CONDUCTED TUESDAY
PIONEER CHASE COUNTY RESIDENT AND SUNDAY SCHOOL
WORKER DIED SUNDAY
The funeral services of C. D. Wood were held Tuesday afternoon at the home of his son, Paul B. Wood. Mr. Wood's death came unexpectedly Sunday morning, although he had been in poor health for years. Mr. Wood awoke in the middle of the night and told Mrs. Wood that he was sick. Paul Wood and Dr. J. F. Shelley were summoned but were unable to help him. Mr. Wood died about 2:30 Sunday morning.
Mr. Wood once requested that his old friends, Dave Morris and Peter McCallum make talks at his funeral and that part of the ceremony be held under an old tree in the yard. This tree was planted by Mr. Wood and his father.
Mr. Morris made a short talk at Sunday school, Sunday, and Mr. McCallum talked at the funeral. Mr. McCallum told of his first meeting with Mr. Wood, how their acquaintanceship had ripened into a warm friendship until he had come to look upon the Wood home almost as his own. Mr. McCallum also told of the missionary work done by Mr. Wood and deplored the fact that he was taken from his work in the prime of life.
The Girl Reserves and members of Mrs. C. D. Wood's Sunday school class sang three numbers, and the Rev. H. A. Fintel read the Scripture. The casket was placed under the tree while a song was sung. Mrs. Annie Parks and Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Donnell of Hutchinson and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wood of Council Grove, old friends of the Wood family, were present at the services. The pallbearers were Orville Giger, Ed Thurston, L. L. Chandler, Harry Starkey, Al Holmes, and Charley Davis.
Obituary:
Clarence David Wood, son of the late Stephen M. and Caroline Breese Wood, was born on a farm near West Liberty, Iowa, March 13, 1859.
With his parents he came to Chase County in the spring of 1866, when seven years old. In the fall of that year the little family settled in their log house on the farm near Elmdale.
Clarence Wood, with his brother Wallie, attended the schools of the vicinity. The first school was of the true pioneer type, a log house with slab benches and no door or windows, just openings. School in such a house could be held only during warm weather. He also attended the State Agricultural College for a time.
His life was that of any farm boy of that early day, and it was an early day, as there is not now a resident of this entire community who was here when he came.
April 7, 1886, he married Emma Bailey, who departed this life October 1, 1919. Their children were Rhuy Holmes of Emporia, Howard, who lost his life in the World War, Paul of the home farm, Rachel Owens, now a missionary in China, and Carrie Drummond of Plymouth, Kans. April 15, 1922, Clarence Wood married Lyda Coyner at Albuquerque, N. M. She is left to mourn his passing.
Mr. Wood is best known as a farmer, and many do not realize that his real life work was in the religious field. When a young man in 1891, he definitely abandoned the farm and entered Sunday school missionary work. He, with his family, located at Abilene, where he lived four years.
In 1895 he moved to Hutchinson
where he spent 12 years under the direction of the Presbyterian Sabbath School Board. He traveled over the southwest part of the state, having 31 counties in his district. His duties included the establishment of Sunday schools and churches and the re-organization and encouragement of those that were weak.
There are many churches in western Kansas which stand as a monument to his work and to his faithfulness and constant care.In the struggle settlers were having to make homes in that country,it it was a work of no mean proportions to keep the spark of religious organization alive.
He'ss growing- family made him plan to leave the work he loved, and he returned to the farm at Elmdale in 1907.
After the death of his wife, Mr. Wood went to Albuquerque, N. M., and worked in the Manuel School, a missionary school for Mexican boys. It was here he met and married the present Mrs. Wood. Later he and his wife went to a mission school for girls in the mountains of West Virginia.
While at this school Mr. Wood suffered the breakdown from which he never recovered. He returned to Kansas and has spent the last two years of his life among his relatives and old friends. That he has been spared these last few years is due to the loving and devoted care of his wife, who has shielded him and in every way smoothed his pathway.
Besides his wife and children he leaves his brother, W. A. Wood; his sister, Miss Carrie E. Wood, and six grandchildren : John and Catherine Holmes, Carrie Jean and Margaret Drummond, Ruth and Howard Wood, David and Mary Elizabeth Owen.
THE WOOD FAMILY REUNION
In response to an invitation from Mr. and Paul Wood, Elmdale, the Wood family and their kin-folks assembled at Camp Wood on Friday, September 1936 for a picnic and reunion. This was the second reunion it would be fair to say it will be an annual event.
There were representatives for the families of the late Col. S. H Wood, Jont Wood and Stephen M Wood. A lively and charming guest was Mrs. Mide Wood Collins in her 88th year, and a cousin of those pioneers, who came all the way from Wellsville that morning with her two daughters and grandson to attend the reunion.
Camp Wood was a suitable place for the party as the land where it is located was donate to State Y. M. C. A. by Stephen Wood and his wife, Caroline Breese, and the camp isnamed in their honor. Many of their descendants were present; including 19 great grandchildren. Miss Carrie E. Wood is a daughter. Mr and Mrs. Arthur Owens and family, on vacation from the missionary field in China, were interesting guests. Mrs. Owens was formerly Rachel Wood, a granddaughter.
"The hills are dearest which our childish feet have trod", and to many of those present the beautiful and romatic place where Camp Wood is situated is especially dear. In our childhood it was "the pasture across the river" whose ringed hills and ravines were explored by us with many thrills. No the camp lake is an added beauty.
When the guests had all arrived with their baskets, cafeteria dinner was served on four long tables in the dining room annex. There was an unlimited supply of fried chicken, ice cream, and eveything else good to eat.
There was much visiting and the interesting question was repeatedly discussed, "Just what relation are we to each other?" If a half dozen of your uncles and aunts, and some of your cousin married Woods aren't you reasonably safe in hailing as "a relative almost any Wood you happen to meet?"
- Anyhow, here is a list of those present—You can sort them out for yourself: Mr. and Mrs. Paul Wood and children, Ruth, Howard, Janet, Earl, Stanley and Pauline. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Drummond and children, Carrie Jean, Margaret and Andrew; Miss Carri E. Wood; Mary Caroline, Connie, Dick, and David Thurston; P S Thurston; Mr. and Mrs. Walter Wood; Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Breese and Ada Mae Culp, all of Elmdale; Mrs. Jessie Cope, Clements John Holmes, Lawrence; Mrs. Julia Breese and Margaret Munger Manhattan; Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Owens and children, David; -Mollie, Wallace, Anne and Boone, Teng Chow, Shantung, China; Mrs. Mide
Chase County Leader News, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, Feb 07 1926.
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