Obituary: Rock County, Wisconsin: Amelia (Wood) STIFF ************************************************************************ Submitted by Ruth Ann Montgomery, June 2005 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ Amelia Jane Wood was born at Monticello, June 23, 1850, and died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. H. A. Schliem at 7:30 p.m. April 30. She was married to John W. Stiff at Monroe, Wis., June 30, 1865 who died Nov. 11, 1911. To them were born seven children, Wilbur, dying in infancy, Arthur, October 9, 1913. Surviving are Mrs. Ella J. Mathews, Rockford, Ill., Mrs. John Lackner, Ismay, Montana, Fred C. and Willard O. of Monroe and Mrs. H. A. Schliem of this city. She leaves twenty-three great grand children, twenty grand children, three sisters and four brothers, Mrs. Cora Mayhew, Marionville, Missouri, Mrs. Emily Jones, Caddva, Col, Frank and Carl Wood, Derby Kans., Stephen and Amos Wood, Clear Lake, Iowa. She has been a member of the M. E. Church for several years, was aloving mother, a kind neighbor and devoted to the Church to which she belonged. May 3, 1923, Evansville Review, Evansville, Wisconsin