Bertha Agusta (Roberts) Wood (abt. 1876 - 1957)

Born about 1876 in Missouri

Died 6 Nov 1957 at about age 81 in San Bernardino, California, United States

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Biography

Bertha Agusta Roberts was born in 1876 in Missouri.

She married James W. Wood on 23 Apr 1898 in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri.^[1] Their known children:

1. Morgan Vinyard Wood (1899–Deceased)
2. Eunice Byrd (Wood) Garner (1904–Deceased)
3. Theron Wendall Wood (1907-1983)
4. Thelia W Wood (abt.1907–Deceased)
5. Wilma C Wood (1910-1991)
6. Bertha Lucile Wood (1914-1956)
7. William H Wood (1922-1975)

The 1900 Census^[2] shows her at age 24 with her husband and one child in Byrd Township (north part excl. Jackson city), Cape Girardeau County, Missouri.

The 1910 Census^[3] shows her at age 34 with her husband and four children in Byrd Township, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri.

The 1920 Census^[4] shows her at age 42 with her husband and four children in Cape Girardeau Ward 3, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri.

The 1930 Census^[5] shows her at age 54 with her husband and three children in San Bernardino, San Bernardino County, California.

The 1940 Census^[6] shows her at age 64, widowed, and living with one son in San Bernardino Judicial Township, San Bernardino, California.

She died on 6 Nov 1957 in California. Her obituary in The San Bernardino County Sun, 8 Nov 1957, page 40:

Mrs. Bertha Agusta Wood, 81, of 3071 Davidson St., died Wednesday at a San Bernardino hospital. A native of Jackson, Mo., she had resided in San Bernardino and California 33 years. She was a member of the First Baptist Church.
Survivors include two sons, William N. of San Bernardino and Theron W. of Cochran; two daughters, Mrs. Eunice Byrd Thompson of Santa Ana and Mrs. Wilma Milton of Manhattan Beach; sister, Mrs. Ella Hobson of Tennessee; a brother, Byrd Roberts of Missouri; seven grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. at Mark B. Shaw Chapel. Interment will be in Montecito Memorial Park.^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKZW-9186 : 18 September 2021), James W Woods and Bertha Roberts, 23 Apr 1898; citing Marriage, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, United States, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City; FHL microfilm 007425188.
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3CM-F6Y : accessed 2 October 2021), Bertha Wood in household of J W Wood, Byrd Township (north part excl. Jackson city), Cape Girardeau, Missouri, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 22, sheet 1A, family 7, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,845.
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M2TN-NRY : accessed 2 October 2021), Bertha A Wood in household of James W Wood, Byrd, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 18, sheet 3A, family 44, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 774; FHL microfilm 1,374,787.
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M84D-MB2 : 2 February 2021), Bertha A Wood in entry for James W Wood, 1920. Missouri > Cape Girardeau > Cape Girardeau Ward 3 > ED 26 > image 54 of 86; citing NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
5. ↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XC6Z-5MF : accessed 2 October 2021), Bertha A Wool in household of James W Wool, San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 87, sheet 18B, line 94, family 496, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 189; FHL microfilm 2,339,924.
6. ↑ "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K98C-6J3 : 6 January 2021), Bertha Wood, San Bernardino Judicial Township, San Bernardino, California, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 36-139, sheet 2B, line 45, family 41, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 294.
7. ↑ The San Bernardino County Sun, San Bernardino, California, 8 Nov 1957, page 40, found on Newspapers.com

This person was created through the import of David Freeman Wheeler 4-24-2009_2010-04-29.ged on 23 August 2010.