Valentine C Woods

1810 - 1899  (88 years)

• Name	Valentine C Woods
  Birth	1 Dec 1810	Allegheny Co, PA
  Gender	Male
  Census	31 Aug 1850	Ohio Co, IN
  	age 39, born PA, farmer
  Census	1856	Wapsinonoc, Muscatine, IA
  	V.C., age 45, born PA, farmer, 4 yrs in state
  Census	8 Aug 1860	Goshen, Muscatine, IA
  	V.C., age 49, born PA, farmer
  Census	16 Jun 1870	Goshen, Muscatine, IA
  	V.C., age 59, born PA, farmer
  Census	25 Jun 1880	Jackson, Clarke, IA
  	age 69, born PA, farmer, parents born IRE/Atlantic Ocean, living in house of son Valentine
  Death	25 Jan 1899	Wiota, Clarke, IA
  Burial	Ottawa Cemetery, Ottawa, IA
  Person ID	I17704	Family Tree
  Last Modified	11 Sep 2017

  
  

  Father	John Woods,   b. 27 Dec 1783, Ireland d. 9 Aug 1837, Union, Dearborn, IN (Age 53 years)
  Mother	Mary Little,   b. 24 Oct 1788, Ireland d. 21 Sep 1865, Union, Ohio, IN (Age 76 years)
  Census	1840	Dearborn Co, IN
  	Mary Woods, 1M15-19, 1M20-29, 1F5-9, 1F10-14, 1F15-19, 1F40-49, next to Valentine & James Woods
  Family ID	F6851	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Neely,   b. 11 Feb 1811, Ovid, Seneca, NY d. 26 Sep 1882, Woodburn, Clarke, IA (Age 71 years)
  Marriage	20 Aug 1830	Dearborn Co, IN
  Census	1840	Dearborn Co, IN
  	2M<5, 2M5-9, 1M20-29, 1F<5, 1F15-19, Next to Mary Woods (mother) & James Woods (inknown)
  Notes	from "Indiana, Marriages, 1810-2001" (familysearch.org) On 20 Aug 1830 in Dearborn Co, IN, Valentine C Wood married Mary Neely.
  Children	1. William M Woods,   b. 1831   d. 8 Sep 1836 (Age 5 years) + 2. Robert Turner Woods,   b. 30 Aug 1832, Indiana d. 19 Apr 1894, Uncas, Kay, OK (Age 61 years) + 3. John N Woods,   b. 16 Apr 1834, Indiana d. 5 Jan 1904, Woonsocket, Sanborn, SD (Age 69 years)   4. Elizabeth Woods,   b. 1836, Indiana d. 1904 (Age 68 years) + 5. James A Woods,   b. 21 Nov 1838, Indiana d. 12 Sep 1916, St Louis, St Louis, MO (Age 77 years)   6. Lewis Woods,   b. 1839, Dearborn Co, IN d. 6 Oct 1858 (Age 19 years)   7. Eliza Jane Woods,   b. 1 Jun 1841, Rising Sun, Ohio, IN d. 8 Aug 1918, Alexandria, Hanson, SD (Age 77 years)   8. Mary Margaret Woods,   b. 9 Nov 1843, Dearborn Co, IN d. 2 Feb 1921, Audubon Co, IA (Age 77 years)   9. William Perry Woods,   b. 18 Nov 1842, Indiana d. 19 Feb 1923, Washington, Cass, IA (Age 80 years) + 10. Preston Cleveland Woods,   b. 12 Nov 1849, West Liberty, Muscatine, IA d. 7 Feb 1924, Sundance, Crook, WY (Age 74 years)   11. Sarah Anna Woods,   b. 7 Jul 1849, Indiana d. 9 Sep 1939, Spokane, Spokane, WA (Age 90 years) + 12. Valentine Cook Woods,   b. 2 Jul 1852, Ohio Co, IN d. 22 May 1913, Lyons, Clinton, IA (Age 60 years)   13. Nancy Minerva Woods,   b. May 1854, Iowa d. 1924 (Age 69 years)
  Family ID	F7028	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	11 Sep 2017

  
  

• Notes

  from "The Atlantic (IA) newspaper", 27 Jan 1899 (posted on findagrave.com by Nancy Woods) Volentine C Woods was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, on December 1st, 1810. At the age of four years, his parents moved to Indiana where he lived for thirty-eight years. While living in Indiana, he married Miss Mary Neeley August 10th, 1830. To this union were born 13 children, eight boys and five girls, of those children 9 are living, four with the wife having proceeded the father and husband to the spirit world. Brother Woods was converted and joined the Methodist Episcopal Church when about twenty-five years of age and remained a communicant the remainder of his life. He was class leader and Sunday School Superintendent for years in West Liberty, Iowa where he held membership. The family moved from Indiana to a farm near West Liberty in Muscatine County, Iowa in 1852 where they lived until the year 1871, when he and his wife came to Clarke County, Iowa where the wife died. In 1884 he came to Cass County, Iowa and made his home with his son, Perry Woods, the remainder of his life. Brother Woods was a man of jovial and cheery disposition, beloved and honored by all who knew him and his goodness and cheer scattered sunshine about him. To his children, five of whom were present in his last hours, he expressed himself that all was well with him and that he was at peace with God and that there was no regrets only he had not been faithful in the last eight years of his life as he would have liked to have lived. Then passed away a veteran of the cross of Christ and like a true soldier regreting that he could not be in active service of his blessed master. He died after a lingering illness of about seven weeks of heart failure January 25th, 1899, age 88 years 1 month and 25 days. Funeral services were held at the residence of Perry Woods at 10 AM, February 27th, 1899, conducted by Rev. R.C.F. Cambers, Pastor of the M.E. Church of Wiota. After the services the remains were taken to Ottawa, Clarke County, Iowa and laid to rest beside his departed wife. They rest from their labors and their works do follow them.