Ruth Eliza (Woods) Weatherly (1840 - aft. 1936)

Born 13 Oct 1840 in Hamilton, Butler, Ohio, United States

Ancestors

Died after 1936 after age 95 in Eugene, Lane, Oregon, United States

Biography

Birth

Birth:

Primary or Preferred: Y

Date: 13 OCT 1840

Place: Hamilton, Butler Co., OH^[1][2]

Death

Death:

Primary or Preferred: Y

Date: AFT 1936

Place: Eugene, Lane Co., OR

Note

Note: A poem by Ruth copied from "Ruthies Memory and Autograph Album"

TO MY MOTHER IN HEAVEN

Sweet Mother, the birds from our boughs have fled, The reaper has gathered his sheaves, The glorious summer is silent and dead And the land like a pale mourner grieves. But the garden of memory is blooming today With the flowers and leaves ever new And the birds and the fountains around it that play Are singing, dear Mother, of you.

Like green shrines receding beyond the seas blue Seem the years by your tenderness blest, And youth's merry music grows faint as the breeze That is wafting on into life's west; Yet beautiful seems the mild glance of your eyes And the blessing your fond spirit gave As the mists of the valley hang bright in the sky, Though the mountains are lost in the wave.

I wonder, sometimes if the souls that have flown Return to the mourners again; And I ask for a sign from the tractless unknown Where millions have questioned in vain. I see your meek loving face through the strife Which would blind me with doubting and fear, But a voice murmurs peace to the tempest of life, And I know that my mother is near,

The cold world may cover my pathway with frowns And mingle, with bitterness, my joy It may load me with crosses and rob me of crowns; I have treasures it cannot destroy; There's a green sunny isle in the depth of my soul Whose roses the winds never strew And the bellows and breezes around it that roll Bring tidings of Heaven and you."

Immigration

Immigration:

Primary or Preferred: Y

Date: 1856

Place: Oregon

Sources

1. ↑ Source: #S11 Page: RVRC-OG
2. ↑ Source: #S5 Page: page 202.

• Woods: The History of the Woods Family Title: Roy Cleo Woods, "The History of the Woods Family with a genealogy of Alexander Woods and his desendants Some attention is given to the history of the families into which they married by Roy Cleo Woods, Ph.D, Professor of Education, Marshall College, Huntington, West Virginia" (Edwards Brothers, Inc. Ann Arbor, MI, 1936)