Watson C. Rood and Matilda Smith

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Husband Watson C. Rood ¹

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           Born: 30 May 1849 2
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         Father: A. Byram Rood (Abt 1807-1885) 2
         Mother: Adelia P. Gleason (Abt 1811-1889) 2

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       Marriage: Abt 1870 3

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   Other Spouse: Jeanette Pattison (1869-      ) 4 - 29 Jun 1898 5

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Wife Matilda Smith ³

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           Born: 1846 - Dorset, Ashtabula Co, OH 3
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         Father: Joseph Smith (Abt 1804-1885) 3
         Mother: Lucretia [Unk] (      -      ) 3

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Children

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1 F Nettie A. Rood ³

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2 F Wissie Rood ³

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         Spouse: Eugene Fisher (      -      ) 3

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3 M Carl Rood ³

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         Spouse: Blanche Morrison (      -      ) 3

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General Notes: Husband - Watson C. Rood

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He attended district school until his fifteenth year, then, upon the persuasion of a cousin, joined the other Union boys of Company B, Twenty-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He enlisted December 29, 1863, and the regiment was organized at Jefferson, Ohio, and placed in command of Rutherford B. Hayes. Colonel Hayes (the future president) accompanied the regiment to Charleston, West Virginia, where the troops went into winter quarters, proceeding in the spring to Lynchburg, Virginia, in the siege of which town they participated. They then returned to Maryland, through the Shenandoah valley, and subsequently were at the battles of Cabletown, Fisher's Hill and Winchester, being a witness to the magnetic influence of Sheridan, at the last named engagement, by which (through his historic ride) he so decisively turned the tide of battle to the Union army. Mr. Rood was here discharged with the regiment after the close of the war.
He remained at home after the war until 1873, and then obtained employment as a brakeman on the Oil City branch of the Lake Shore Railroad, and after six months of this work was made baggageman at Andover, Ohio. The following four years were spent in that position, and the two succeeding years as station agent at Polk, Pennsylvania. In the service of the same road he was then transferred to Leon, Ohio, and after being station agent at that point for four years was appointed to the same position at Hadley, in 1888. During this period he also placed himself in comfortable financial circumstances, owning not only a desirable residence at Hadley but a good farm in Sandy Creek Township. Fraternally, he belonged to the I. O. O. F. (Sheakleyville Lodge No. 592), the P. H. C. of Sharon and the G. A. R. Post of Andover, Ohio. In his religious faith he was a Presbyterian. [HMC 1909, 978]

1 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 977, 980.

2 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 977.

3 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 978.

4 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 980.

5 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 979.