BIOGRAPHY: Catherine Gamel Wood; Washington co., NY
surname: Gamel

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BIOGRAPHY OF CATHERINE GAMEL
September 15, 1820 - September 29, 1886

Catherine Gamel was born September 15, 1820. The exact location of her 
birth has not been discovered, but according to a later Federal Census, 
she was born in New York, most likely in Argyle, Washington County. She 
was the fourth of five children born to Joseph W. Gamel and Isabel Gillis. 
She married Ezra Holden Wood at Argyle, New York, on April 22, 1841. 
After the marriage, they lived for a time in Memor, New York, where their 
first child, Theodore Gamil, was born. They then moved to New York City, 
where two more children, Charles Holden & Emma Jane, were born. 

Before 1849, they moved to Fountain Prairie, Columbia County, 
Wisconsin. Five more children were born to the couple while they lived 
there. Those children were George Henry, Orry Elizabeth, Ellen Ann, Mary 
Angeline & Alfred Amminus. Finally, in 1867, the family moved to a farm in 
Woodville Township, Waseca County, Minnesota. Ezra died in Woodville 
at 71. Catherine died in the city of Waseca, on September 29, 1886, just 
one year after Ezra. Both are buried in the Woodville Cemetery in Waseca. 

Information for the biography taken from Catherine's obituary; "A 
Genealogy of the Lineal Descendants of William Wood." by Clay Wood 
Holmes; Waseca County vital records; the History of Waseca County; 
records of the Scotch Cemetery in Argyle, New York and the 1870 & 1880 
U. S. Census. 

Obituary of Catherine Wood

Waseca County [Minnesota] Herald, 1 Oct 1886.
Death has again removed one of the old and respected citizens of this 
county. Mrs. Catherine Wood, widow of deacon Ezra Wood, died quite 
suddenly last Wednesday, of asthma, an ailment which has troubled her 
for years. The day before her death she appeared better than usual. She 
settled here with her husband in 1860 and died at the age of 66. Her son 
George, with whom she resided on the old homestead, was on a visit with 
his wife to friends in Wisconsin. He has been informed of the sad event 
and is expected here today. At this writing [Thursday], it is expected the 
funeral will take place today. Deceased was with her daughter, Mrs. G. L. 
Arentsen, in this city, at the time of her death. She leaves six children and 
a large circle of relatives and friends who mourn her departure to the land 
of spirits.