Licking County OhArchives Obituaries.....Wood, Thomas E. June 13, 1950
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The Newark Advocate and American Tribune, Tuesday, June 13, 1950, Vol. 189, No. 29, Page 1, 5.
The Newark Advocate and American Tribune, Tuesday, June 13, 1950, Vol. 189, No. 
29, Page 1/cont. Page 5, Death Closes Long Career As Minister/Death Closes 
Pulpit Career.
     The Rev. Thomas E. Wood, retired Methodist minister and pastor emeritus of 
the first Methodist Church, died at 6:20 a. m. Tuesday in his home, 39 Linden 
Avenue. He was 90 years of age and had been seriously ill ** days.
     Mr. Wood had been in the ministry 60 years. He was a former pastor of 
White Chapel Church south of Newark, three years and his association with the 
First Methodist Church was during the pastorate of the Rev. Ira McCormack, who 
left Newark for a time for the benefit of his health.
     He had been a member of the North East Ohio Conference of the Methodist 
Church 37 years and his last charge was the Union Avenue Methodist Church in 
Alliance, which is used as the Mt. Union College Chapel.
     Born Sept. 26, 1859, in Osset, Yorkshire, England, he was the son of John 
and Emma (Mitchell) Wood, and was the last of the family. Four brothers and 
three sisters preceded him in death.
     He came to the United States in 1880, and in 1887, was a student at Ohio 
Wesleyan University. He was graduated from Drew Theological Seminary in 
Madison, N. J. in 1890, and received his doctor of divinity degree at old Seto 
College, while an instructor in religion theres. He had been a resident of 
Newark since 1920.
     His first wife, Flora (Doughty) Wood, died Dec. 13, 1927. His widow, the 
formaer Grace Dicken, survives.
     Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p. m. Thursday in the First 
Methodist Church with the Rev. Foster Anderson of Youngstown and the Rev. 
Herbert C. White, pastor of the church, officiating. Burial will be made in 
Cedar Hill Cemetery.
     The body will be moved from Criss Brothers funeral home Wednesday morning 
to the home in Linden Avenue, and will be placed in the church at 1 p. m. 
Thursday.

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