Newton-Clarke County GaArchives Obituaries.....Wood, Mrs. Mary R. May 30 1874
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The Georgia Enterprise, July 3, 1874
OBITUARY
  MRS. MARY R. WOOD, widow and relic of Honorable Cary Wood deceased, died at 
the residence of her son-in-law, Mr. William H. Gaither, in the county of 
Newton, on the morning of the 30th of May, 1874, after a long protracted and 
lingering illness.
  Mrs. Wood was born on the 18th day of September, 1803, in the county of Clark,
in this State. Her maiden name was Billups, a family well known and greatly
esteemed in Georgia. In her early womanhood she was married to Mr. Cary Wood,
then of the town of Athens, in Clark county. About the time, or soon after their
marriage, the county of Newton was organized and the county site fixed at the 
place which was then named and called Covington. To this place Mr. Wood came 
with his family, among the first settlers, indeed, while the embryo town was 
yet a forest, and commenced a mercantile business. Not many years after their
location at Covington, God in his abundant mercy and goodness, called them to a
true and evangelical repentance, and made known to each of them His saving 
grace, and Mr. Wood and his then young and excellent wife, became members of 
the household of faith, and united themselves with what was then called and 
known as the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Wood was an earnest, honest man, 
diligent in business, and his good wife was to him a helpmate indeed, and upon 
them the blessings of God abode. The efforts made by them to provide properly 
for their household prospered, and from comparative poverty, Mr. Wood, became a 
man of wealth. In the year 1830 the writer came to Covington a mere boy to live 
and labor, a stranger among strangers. Then it was his good fortune at an early 
day to form the acquaintance of Mr. Wood and his family, and they became to him 
as a dear brother and sister. He was permitted to hold with them the most 
kindly and intimate relations, and know them well; and often in his struggles 
in life, has the writer had cause to bless God for the gift of friends so kind 
and true. With them towards him there was no shadow of turning-always the same 
cordial and hearty. Children were born to them, some of whom died in their 
infancy, but although they wept, "they did not mourn as they that had no hope." 
God took the lambs of the flock to his own loving bosom.- The laterborn 
children lived. Four daughters and one son have survived both their parents; 
and both the father and mother lived to see each of their children well married 
and settled in life. Mr. Wood died suddenly of disease of the heart on the 6th 
day of May, 1857, seventeen years and a few days before his wife, the subject 
of this notice. The writer has often since the death of her husband, conversed 
with her, sometimes when troubles encompassed her, (as they did all of us in 
the South during the late war,) and although she in common with all others felt 
it sorely, yet her faith in God never wavered. She would say "God is my Father; 
he knows what is best." Never desponding, always cheerful, God was to her a 
Refuge, the Shadow of a great Rock to hide her from the storm.
  The last few years of her life she spent mostly, with her youngest daugher, 
Mrs. Gaither, in the country, often however visiting her children and friends 
at Covington. Mrs. Wood was a calm, consistent Christian lady, patient to her
affliction, and of unfeigned faith, suffering as well as doing the will of God,
until the end came, and then in full assurance of a well founded hope, she 
passed in mature old age from the loving family circle below to her reward in
Heaven.
J. J. FLOYD

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