Van Buren County MI Archives Obituaries.....Wolldridge, William H. November 1910
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South Haven Daily Tribune 28 Nov 1910
The Daily Tribune of South Haven, Michigan carried an obituary of William H. 
Wooldridge on the front page on Monday November 28, 1910 and it reads: "TUMOR 
ON BRAIN CAUSES DEATH Had Previously Brot Blindness and Epilepsy to Its 
Victim, Wm. H. Wooldridge, Who Was Buried This Afternoon William Henry 
Wooldridge who passed quietly and peacefully away Saturday morning, was buried 
this afternoon in Lake View cemetery, services having been conducted by Rev. 
A.F. Nager at 2:30 at the home, 520 Phoenix St. W.H. Wooldridge had been 
afflicted for the past two years with tumor on the brain. From this cause he 
gradually became totally blind and subject to epilepsy. Since last February he 
has been as dependent as a young child upon some one to guide his footsteps 
and to look after his welfare, and the past four weeks the epileptic paroxysms 
have increased in number and intensity. Two years ago this coming May Mrs. 
Wooldridge was taken to the hospital at Ann Arbor for an operation from which 
she died. Although his eyesight was then falling him he continued to work as 
engineer in the Pierce-Williams factory which position he had held since 
coming here five years ago. His sight gradually grew dim however and he gave 
up his work about a year ago. A trip was made to Ann Arbor to learn if 
anything could be done, but he was given no hope. Mr. Wooldridge was born at 
Plymouth, N.Y., July 18, 1867, and was therefore not much past 43 years of 
age, young for such an affliction to have fallen upon him. There are left to 
mourn, four children, Sarah, aged 18, who remained with her father, Luther, 
aged 15, who lives with an uncle at Orgegon, Ill., and did not arrive for the 
funeral; Esther, aged ten, who has been adopted by a cousin, Mrs. Swan Nelson, 
living near this city, and William Henry, a nine months old babe, the child of 
a young woman he married a few months after the death of his wife. There is 
also the aged mother who has been her son's constant attendant for the past 
several months. The pall bearers this afternoon were relatives, Isaac 
Wooldridge, a brother of Kalamazoo, Geo. And Phil Arbogast, cousins of this 
city, W.B. Abrams of Kibbe, Edgar Brackett of Galien and Mr. Elwell of Grand 
Junction" Note: Plymouth is in Chenango County, New York. Mr. Elwell would 
have been Frances Elwell. The wife who died in 1909 was the half sister of 
Edgar Brackett, Olive Powell. 

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