Ermina Anne Woods

1837 - 1928  (91 years)

• Name	Ermina Anne Woods
  Birth	28 Jan 1837	Pymatuning, Mercer, PA
  Gender	Female
  Census	27 Oct 1850	Pymatuning, Mercer, PA ; Almina, age 13, born PA, living with mother
  Census	30 Jun 1860	Pymatuning, Mercer, PA ; Armina, age 22, born PA, living with mother
  Census	29 Jun 1870	Pymatuning, Mercer, PA ; Mina, age 32, born PA, living with Clarinda & Elvira & likely Harriet
  Census	12 Jul 1870	Chester, Poweshiek, IA ; Ermina, age 32, born PA, asst house keeper, living in house of brother Abner
  Census	17 Jul 1880	Nodaway, Page, IA ; age 43, born PA, single, school teacher, parents born PA/PA, living with sisters Elvira & Malissa McCleland
  Census	9 Jun 1900	Grinnell, Poweshiek, IA ; age 63, born Jan 1837 in PA, single, parents born PA/PA, living in house of nephew Lester
  Census	9 May 1910	Pymatuning, Mercer, PA ; Almina, 74, born PA, living in house of nephew Lester
  Census	14 Jan 1920	Grant, Poweshiek, IA ; age 82, born PA, single, parents born PA/PA, living with nieces Almeda, Ida, Helen Woods
  Death	7 Oct 1928	Grinnell, Poweshiek, IA
  Burial		Summit Cemetery, Yorktown, IA
  Person ID	I1485	Family Tree | 12 Generation Ancestor Chart
  Last Modified	27 Aug 2017

  
  

  Father	Alexander Woods,   b. 1795, Pennsylvania d. 1840, Mercer Co., PA (Age 45 years)
  Mother	Mary J Bean,   b. Abt 1796, Pennsylvania d. 25 Jun 1866, Pymatuning, Mercer, PA (Age ~ 70 years)
  Marriage	1815	Pennsylvania
  Family ID	F332	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  from "The Grinnell Herald", 9 Oct 1928 (grinnell.lib.ia.us) MISS ERMINA WOODS CALLED BY DEATH Ermina Ann Woods was born January 2, 1837, in Mercer County, Pennsylvania and died October 7, 1928 in Grinnell, Iowa. She was the daughter of Alexander and Mary Bean Woods and was the last of a family of ten children. The parents were of Scotch-Irish ancestry and were pioneers in western Pennsylvania. The father was one of the first to discontinue the custom of using liquor in the harvent fields. Ermina was educated in the common schools and studied music at Oberlin College. She afterwards taught music and was also a teacher in the public schools in different places both east and west. About 1870 she came west to Chester, Iowa, where her brother Abner Woods was then living. Since then she has spent the greater part of her life in different places in Iowa and for a number of years has made her home with her nieces west of Grinnell. She leaves fifteen nieces and nephews, some living in the east and others in different western states. When a young woman she was a member of the Presbyterian church in Clarksville, Pa. She afterwards transferred her membership to the Congregational church in Chester, Iowa, and at the time of her death was a member of the First Congregational church of Grinnell. In spite of her advanced age she retained her mental faculties to a remarkable degree and up the day of her death was a constant reader and interested in all the news of the day. Funeral services, conducted by Rev. E.M. Wittum, were held at the Woods home Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock and the body was sent to Yorktown, Iowa for interment. Living with brother Abner in Brooklyn, Poweshiek, IA in 1870 Living with Harriet, Clarinda and Lester on farm in 1870 Living with Mina and William & Melissa McClelland in Nodaway, IA in 1880 Living with nephew Lambert in Grinnell, IA in 1900 Living with nephew Lester in Pymatuning, Mercer, PA in 1910 Living with neices Almeda, Ida and Helen in Grant, Poweshiek, IA in 1920 Living with neice AW Mitchell and Emily McCleland in 1925