Bio of Jarvis, Henriette Jane Wood - Rogers County, Oklahoma Submitted by: William S. Boggess 26 Sep 2009 Return to Oklahoma County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogers/rogers.htm ===================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ===================================================================== HENRIETTE JANE (WOOD) JARVIS Mrs Henriette J Jarvis passed away 2 January 1928 at her home in Claremore, Rogers County, Oklahoma. Widowed in 1918 by death of husband William L Jarvis, a building contractor, at Bryon, Coal County, Oklahoma where they were recorded on the 1910 Federal census. Her body was removed to Carthage, Jasper County, Missouri where her younger brother resided since 1882, interned in his plot at Carthage's Park Cemetery. Henriette Jane Wood, 8th of 11 known children, born near Harper's Ferry, Jefferson county, Virginia (now West Virginia) after mother, Cassandra Hess Brown (1813-1864) and father John Wood (1808-1861) moved there from Clarke county, Virginia in 1845. She was about six years old when parents, with her nine known siblings, moved by wagon along Northwestern Turnpike (now highway #50) to Tenmile district, Harrison county, Virginia (now West Virginia) in 1851, settling within ¼-mile of what became Point Pleasant Methodist Episcopal church and cemetery following removal of log church building of 1837 created Mount Morris church for railroad construction ca 1855. She attended what was known as Point Pleasant free school #7, a one room log building reportedly in use in 1830 and earlier, where her oldest brother and sister taught.The1860 Federal census has her listed with parents and the 1880 census has her in household of Samuel Boggess (1811-1888), husband of her oldest sister Sarah Elizabeth Wood (1835-1918). Henriette moved to Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri September 1889 with her widowed sister Sarah and three young boys where she married, 1890, as 2nd wife of William L Jarvis (1843-1918), building contractor, born in Harrison county, West Virginia. On 1900 Federal census she is found at Vernon Town, Wilbarger County, Texas. In 1910 at Bryon, Coal County, Oklahoma where her husband died in1918. He had six children by his first marriage but they had no children. She was in her home at Claremore, Rogers County, Oklahoma when sister Sarah died June 28, 1918, then only three of Henriette's ten siblings surviving with Robert Albert Wood's death 1926 in Dallas, Texas, she died January 1928, then brother John Henry Wood (1839-1928) died in April 1928 at his son's home in Clinton, Iowa. Henriette's funeral was held at Carthage, Missouri with burial in youngest brother, George Brown Wood's (1852-1941) Park cemetery plot. A, ca 1896, photgraph of her with sister Sarah in Sarah's yard at Carthage, Missouri exists in collection of Jane L Hough, g,granddaughter of Sarah's along with several family pictures of Sarah starting in 1873.