Fordyce Obituary

Silas Wood Obituary
1944

Silas Wood, aged 80 years, died Saturday evening, Nov. 25, 1944, at 9:45 o'clock at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Clive Phillips, of Hiller, Pa., where he had resided for the past two and one-half years, during which time he had been an invalid.
He was born in Holbrook, Dec. 21, 1863, at the spot where his grandfather, William Wood and his grandmother, Ann Chesney Wood, had settled in 1817. Mr. Wood was a son of Jesse and Mariah Fordyce Wood; of the eight children in the family all are deceased except one sister, Mrs. Clarinda Tustin, of Waynesburg.
On May 25, 1892, he was united in marriage to Catherine Fordyce by Dr. A. B. Miller, of Waynesburg College. His wife preceded him in death about two years ago. To this union was born two children, Mrs. Clara Phillips, of Hiller, Pa., and Mrs. Sara Marley, of Philadelphia, both of whom survive. There are three grandsons: Wood Phillips, with the Navy Air Corps, at Hutchinson, Kansas; James Phillips, in the Army Air Corps, V.P.L., at Blacksburg, Va., and Ralph Phillips, of Brownsville. Also a number of nieces and nephews.
Mr. Wood was a member of the Waynesburg Christian Church and had been a member of the I.O.O.F. Lodge. He was a farmer but due to failing health and blindness had not been actively engaged for several years. In 1880, during Mr. Wood's seventeenth year, the family left the home at Holbrook to settle at Grantsville, W. Va., with several other neighbors. Mr. Wood himself made the trip with a team over bad roads and streams with only fords and much heavily wooded land. He always liked to reminisce his first trip as a high spot in his life. From Grantsville he later went to Illinois and Iowa where he spent several years farming and caring for stock. Since 1907 he had lived mostly at the old Wood homestead which he and his wife purchased and built a home on the same spot where he was born.

WOOD - Funeral services for Silas Wood, of Holbrook, who died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Clive Phillips, of Hiller, Saturday evening, Nov. 25, 1944, will be held Wednesday afternoon,Nov. 29, at 1 o'clock from the late residence in Holbrook, in charge of Rev. A. Homer Jordan. Short services will be held this (Monday) evening, Nov. 27, at eight o'clock, in the Phillips home at Hiller, after which time the body will be removed to his former home at Holbrook. Burial will be in the Fordyce Cemetery. Ralph H. Scott, of Rogersville, funeral director.
Democrat Messenger, November 27, 1944 (Greene County, Pennsylvania)

Silas Wood, 80, Called By Death
WAYNESBURG, Nov. 26 - Silas Wood, 80, died Saturday, Nov. 25 at 9:45 p.m., at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Clive Phillips, of Hiller, where he resided for the last two and one-half years, during which time he was an invalid.
Mr. Wood was born Dec. 21, 1863, at Holbrook, at the spot where his grandfather, William Wood, and his grandmother, Anna CHesney Wood, settled in 1817. He was a son of Jesse and Maria Fordyce Wood. Of the eight children in the family, only one sister, Mrs. Clarissa Tustin, of Waynesburg, survives.
May 25, 1892, he married Catharine Fordyce, the ceremony being read by Dr. A. B. Miller, of Waynesburg College. She is desceased. Two daughters were born, Mrs. Clara Phillips, of Hiller, and Mrs. Sara Marley, of Philadelphia.
There are three grandsons, Wood Phillips, of the Navy Air Corps, stationed at Hudson, Kansas; James Phillips, Air Corps, V.T.I., Blacksburg, Va., and Ralph Phillips, at home; also a number of nieces and nephews.
He was a member of the Waynesburg Christian Church and a former member of the Waynebsurg Lodge, I.O.O.F. He was a farmer, but due to failing health and blindness was not actively engaged in his occupation for several years.
In 1880, during his 17th year, the family left their home at Holbrook, and went to Grantsville, W. Va., and settled there. Mr. Wod made the trip with a team over bad roads and across streams with only fords. He often reminisced over his first trip, which was a high spot in his life.
From Grantsville he went to Illinois and Iowa, where he spent several years farming and caring for stock. Since 1907 he has lived mostly at the old Wood homestead, which he and his wife had purchased, and where they built a home on the spot where he was born.
Newspaper obituary, date and source unknown (Greene County, Pennsylvania)

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