Individual Details

Faber Mirbel WOOD

(March 15, 1878 - October, 1971)

Events

BirthMarch 15, 1878Indiana
MarriageMay 30, 1902Fountain County, IN - Maude Eunice FURR
DeathOctober, 1971Newtown, Fountain County, IN
Alt nameFabre WOOD
Soc Sec No315-54-0803
BurialNewtown Cemetery, Newtown, Fountain County, IN

Families

SpouseMaude Eunice FURR (1881 - 1978)
FatherMiles Harper WOOD (1828 - 1910)
MotherHannah Margaret WISEMAN (1854 - 1944)

Notes

Death

NEWTOWN — Mirbel Wood, 93, of Newtown, died at 4 a.m. Monday in Community Hospital at Williamsport where he had been for the past three weeks after a fall in his home. He had resided in Newtown since 1884 and was a farmer and straw dealer. He was a member of the Newtown United Methodist Church. Born March 15, 1878, in Camden, he was a son of Rev. Miles and Hanna Wood. He was married to Maude Furr in 1902. Survivors include the widow; two sons, Lester of Newtown and Allan of Jeffersonville; a daughter, Mrs. Avis Lawson of Attica; a brother, Joyce of Portland, Ore.; a sister, Mrs. Lois Earl of Los Angeles; four grandchildren, and 14 great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by two children, Wayne Wood and Lucille Royer, and a grandson. Funeral services will be conducted at 10:30 a.m. Thursday in Maus Funeral Home in Attica with Rev. Walter Williams officiating. Burial will be in Newtown Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 5 p.m. Wednesday.

Endnotes

1. World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-18 [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2002. National Archives and Records Administration. World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918. M1509, 20,243 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration..

2. Indiana Marriage Collection, 1800-1941 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2005.

3. Crawfordsville Journal Review, Crawfordsville, Indiana, October 5, 1971.

4. United States Social Security Death Index.

5. findagrave.com.