- MRS. ELIZA ANDREWS WOOD was born in Lowell, Mass., in 1825.
She journeyed with an
- emigrant train to Wisconsin in 1841. Mr. Royal WOOD came
first to Janesville, and drove to Chicago to meet his promised
bride. There they married, April 4, 1841.
- "Our first home," said Mrs. WOOD, "was on
the bank of the river near the upper bridge. There
- were no bridges then. We often shot ducks from our back door."
Mrs. WOOD is still living in Janesville. She is especially bright
and entertaining, although she is almost deaf and is losing her
sight. She bears her infirmities with great patience.
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- Taken from "Rock County, Wisconsin, Vol. I"
by William Fiske Brown, (c)1908, p. 459.
-
- Courtesy of Carol
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