Harrison-Jefferson County WV Archives Biographies.....(Wood) JARVIS, Henriette Jane August 3, 1847 - January 2, 1928 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/wv/wvfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: William (Bill) Samuel BOGGESS http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00024.html#0005917 September 22, 2009, 8:19 pm Source: William (Bill) Samuel BOGGESS Author: Bill BOGGESS       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. http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=AHN&db=califia1&id=I4397 Henriette Jane Wood, 8th of 11 known children, born 3rd day of August 1847 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.The 1860 Federal census does NOT list her nor some of the others, with parents however 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 sister, widow Sarah and three young boys, where in 1890 she married as 2nd wife of William L Jarvis (1843-1918), building contractor, born in Harrison county, Virginia (now West Virginia). On 1900 Federal census Henriette is found at Vernon Town, Wilbarger County, Texas, and 1910 at Bryon, Coal County, Oklahoma where reportedly her husband died in1918. William had six children by his first marriage, they had no children. She was at home in Claremore, Rogers County, Oklahoma when sister Sarah died June 28, 1918, then only three of her ten known siblings surviving. Robert Albert Wood (1849-1926) died 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 leaving only George Brown Wood (1852-1941) of Carthage alive. Henriette's funeral was held in Carthage, Missouri with burial in youngest brother, George Brown Wood's Park cemetery plot. A, ca 1915, photograph of she visiting 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). File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/wv/harrison/bios/woodjarv42nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/wvfiles/ File size: 3.5 Kb