Viola (Gibson) Wood (1882 - 1920)

Ancestors

Wife of Frederick Waldron Wood — married 1902 in Massachusetts, United States

Died 4 Apr 1920 at age 37 in Brockton Hospital, Massachusetts

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Biography

Viola was born 24 November 1882, the daughterof William Gibson and Nellie Phinney. She married Frederick Waldron Wood (b. c. 1881 in Hyde Park) in Hyde Park on 3 November 1902. He was a machinist, the son of William Wood and Margaret (Dagnell). Viola and Frederick had these children:

Bertha Ellen Wood b. Hyde Park, Massachusetts 8/12/1904 d. Boston 192 buried Fairview Cemetery, Hyde Park

Frederick D. Wood b. 5 Montello Ext., Brockton, Massachusetts 10/18/1908 [d. unmarried c. 1960?]

Mabel Dagnall Wood b. Brockton, Massachusets 2/27/1915 d. Naples, Florida 10/10/1994 buried Rose Hills Memorial Park, Whittier, California m. in Brockton 1st Joseph Howard Pickett [divorced] and then m. in Los Angeles 9/28/1957 2nd Peter William Schalaba. Mabel d. in Naples, Florida 3/21/1995 and is buried Rose Hills Memorial Park, Whittier California. She and Peter had one daughter, Karyn L. Schalaba b. Los Angeles 1/16/1959 m. Los Angeles 7/29/1978, Patrick Lane Hanrahan

Sources

• "Massachusetts State Vital Records, 1841-1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-L17Y-9WX?cc=1928860&wc=M6S7-HNG%3A223963801%2C225746201 : 20 May 2014), Deaths > Deaths 1920 vol 28 Brockton > image 255 of 540; State Archives, Boston.
• Robert B. Hanson, The GIBSON FAMILY of Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, and Dunbartonshire, Scotland; New Brunswick, Canada; and the United States. Text 8/25/2022.
• Birth date from Bible record in possession of Kenneth Whitney via the Hanson (above) document.
• Massachusetts Archives (v. 526, p. 55, #111) via the Hanson (above) document.

Notes from Robert Hanson

Massachusetts Archives (v. 526, p. 55, #111) gives her as age 19, a Saleslady, b. Moncton, d/o William and Ellen (Phinney); him as age 21, a Machinist, s/o William Wood and Margaret (Dagnell), b. Hyde Park. Born Massachusetts 4/19/1882, according to information from his WWI draft registration card (1918), which gives him as age 36, residing on Everett Ave., Norfolk, MA. Next of kin given as his wife Viola M. Wood and his occupation as a Freight Messenger for the Bay State Street Railway Company. He described himself as stout, of medium height, with brown eyes and dark brown hair. See also US censuses for 1920 Avon, Massachusetts, and 1930 Brockton, Massachusetts.