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
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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
- from "The Grinnell Herald", 9 Oct 1928 (grinnell.lib.ia.us)