The Family of Harvey B. Wood and Nellie A. Kingsley Wood

The Parents of Harvey B. Wood

George W. Wood and Clarissa K. Bliss Wood

The Parents of Nellie A. Kingsley

Addison M. Kinglsey and Adeline H. Doolittle Kingsley

Wood Family Tree

Bliss Family Tree

Kingsley Family Tree

Doolittle Family Tree

Marriages of Harvey B. Wood

Marriage to Nellie A. Kingsley in 1891

Marriages of Nellie A. Kingsley

1st Marriage to Harvey B. Wood in 1891

2nd Marriage to William H. Gillette in 1906

The Death Certificate of Harvey B. Wood

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The Obituary of Harvey B. Wood

5 February 1867 - 29 November 1902

From an Unknown Newspaper, 1902

The sad news of the terrible death of Harvey Wood at Grand Rapids, Michigan, came to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Wood and family, at this place, on Monday. No particulars were received until after furthor inquiry. The body was brought here Wednesday noon.

Mr. Wood is very well spoken of by all who knew him during his residence here. About fifteen years ago he went to Michigan and for nearly the same period has been a faithful and valued worker on the Detroit and Milwaukee branch of the Grand Trunk Railroad at Grand Rapids.

Mr. Wood was a Mason and a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen. Funeral services were held in Grand Rapids at 2:30 o’clock, Tuesday afternoon, under the auspices of the Masons. The funeral services here were held at the home of George Wood at 2 o’clock, yesterday afternoon, Rev. Lorren - Stiles officiated. Interment was made at Boughton Hill, with the Masonic burial service.

Mr. Wood was 36 years of age and was born in this village. Besides his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Wood, of this place, the deceased is survived by a widow and two sons, four brothers; Al and Herman, of Grand Rapids; John, of Medina, and Charles, of Victor, and two sisters; Mrs. Addie Tiffany and Mrs. Millie Dillman; both of Rochester.

The following recital of the facts in connection with the accident to Mr. Wood is taken from the Grand Rapids Evening Press, of December 1, 1902.

“Fate which lurks over every railway man’s head, descended upon Yardmaster Harvey Wood of the Grand Trunk, Saturday afternoon, November 29. In jumping from a moving engine, a feat he had accomplished safely hundreds of times, the yardmaster slipped and was so badly crushed between the trucks and station platform that he died two hours later at U.B.A. hospital.”

“Wood had grown up with this branch of the Grand Trunk road and was a capable man in the position he held here. It had been his custom to leave the engine in front of the station, every day, and his fellow employees are at a loss to account for the accident, Saturday. The station master was looking from the window, when Wood swung out of the engine cab and leaped. He misjudged the distance and stsruck between the rail and platform and fell into the narrow space. The car wheels did not touch the body, but the journal boxes dragged the man along in the narrow space and left him unconscious after the fourth car had passed. Dr. Griswohl and the police ambulance were summoned and it was found the mans’s skull was fractured, his left leg fractured in three places and numerous other serious injuries sustained.”

Amoung the out of town relatives who, with the widow, Mrs. Harvey Wood, and two sons, of Grand Rapids, attended the funeral here were; Mr. and Mrs. Al Wood, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Gillette, of Grand Rapids; Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Estes, C. Eates, of Canandaigua; Mrs. Thomas Doolittle and two children, of Springwater; Fred Kingsley, of Naples; Mrs. A. N. Kingsley, of Canadice; Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Wood, of Middleport, and John Wood and Ralph Wood, of Medina; Mr. and Mrs. Carl Dillman and two children, Mr. and Mrs. Addie Tiffany and Mr. and Mrs. Newton Kingsley, of Rochester.

The Obituary of Nellie A. Kingsley Wood Gillette

November 1865 - 2 December 1920

From the Naples Record, 8 December 1920

Canadice - Mrs. Nellie Gillett died very suddenly at the home of her son, Homer Woods, in Macona, N. Y., on December 2, 1920.

Mrs. Gillett was born in Canadice about 56 years ago. She was the daughter of Addison and Adeline Kingsley, and lived for many years in this vicinity.

She was a woman of sterling worth, and was respected by all who knew her.

She was twice married, leaving two sons by her first husband. She also leaves two sisters, Mrs. Nettie Estey, of Syracues, and Mrs. Jennie Doolittle, of Naples; three brothers, Fred, of Richmond, and Walter and Charles, of Victor.

The funearl was held from the home of her brother, Walter, and burial was made beside her first husband, near Victor.

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From the Wayland Register, 9 December 1920

Canadice - Mrs. Nellie Gillett, formerly Miss Nellie Kingsley of this place, died at her home near Syracuse last week.

She had many friends here where her girlhood was spent. Besides her two boys she leaves three brothers and two sisters.

The Burial of Harvey B. Wood and Nellie A. Kingsley Wood Gillette

Boughton Hill Cemetery in Victor NY

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