Obituary: Rock County, Wisconsin: Charles E. WOOD ************************************************************************ Submitted by Ruth Ann Montgomery, May 2005 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ Passed Away Mr. Chas. E. Wood, familiarly known as Col. Wood, died at his home at the Central house, of heart disease, on Saturday evening, May 12, 1892. The deceased was born in the town of Scipio, N. Y. Married to Miss Charlot A. Northway, of Hornby, N. Y., at Dundee, Ill., in 1847. Has been interested in the hotel business for fourteen years, for the past ten years in the Central house of this city, which on account of poor health was rented to L. C. Brewer and Joseph Coleman, Nov. last. The birth of six children was the result of their union, four of which died in infancy, the two remaining being Mrs. H. L. Kendall, left a widow on Dec. 10, 1892, still residing at the Central house with her daughter Catherine E., and Geo. H. now married and in the employ of he Evansville Merchantile association. Loved By All The Colonel, as we shall call him, was very highly respected and in short, loved by all. His sudden death, though not unexpected from his long illness, cast a gloom of sorrow over this entire community and the family have the deepest sympathy of all. He sat on the veranda of the hotel until 8 o'clock Saturday evening, which has been the only position in which he could rest for over a week past. After going to his room about 10:30 he asked his wife to get him some medicine which he had been in the habit of taking to make him sleep, she immediately went to him as he was sitting in his chair, but in fifteen minutes he had passed away, very easily as though falling to sleep, closing his own eyes. Funeral services will be held at the hotel this Monday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, Rev. J. Scholfield officiating. The Masonic fraternity taking charge. Tomorrow morning at 6 o'clock the remains, accompanied by relatives, Rev. Scholfield, Masons, N. Winston, B. S. Hoxie, Isaac Clifford, B. Campbell, C. E. Lee and L. C. Brewer, will be taken to Dundee, Ill., where services will again be held and the remains interred in the old family cemetery. May 15, 1894, The Tribune, p. 1, col. 5, Evansville, Wisconsin