Person:Mary Jackson (397)

Oscar B. Robbins' book, pg 18 states that Mary Burwell Jackson died 5 Mar 1867 but the 1880 census appears to prove that is an error. Mary B. Wood is recorded living with her family in Dover, Morris Co., NJ in 1880. See her obit below.

1850 Census, Rockaway, Morris Co., New Jersey Freeman Wood 41 M Farmer NJ Mary B. Wood 31 F NJ William J. Wood 14 M NJ Susan L. Wood 11 F NJ Anna W. Wood 8 F NJ John S. Wood 5 M NJ Charles Finney 50 M Laborer Ireland Allice Mulligan 20 F NJ

1860 Census Rockaway, Morris, New Jersey (pgs 80 & 81) Freeman Wood 57 M retired Iron Master 8,000. 1000. NJ Mary B. Wood 48 f birth state n/g William J ----- 24 M attorney 10,000. 500. n/g Susan L. 22 F Anna W. 19 F John F. 14 M Florence 9 F J Clements Wood 6 M NJ Charles Tinney 75 M laborer Ireland Catherine Oflerity 22 F domestic Ireland (image looks like O'Flarety to me) Apparently this enumerator does not write in the birth state unless it changes from the prior line.

1870 Census Frenchtown, Hunterdon Co., New Jersey Wood, Freeman 61 M W iron mfg amt n/g 10,000 NJ Wood, Mary B. 58 F W keeping house 25,000 3,000 NJ Wood, John F. 23 M W Rets merchant amt n/g 12,000 NJ Wood, Florence M. 19 F W at home NJ Wood, Clement 16 M W NJ Moor, Jane 27 F W domestic Servant Ireland

1880 Census, District 131, Dover, Morris Co., New Jersey Wood, Freeman W M 70 head married Justice of the Peace NJ NJ NJ Wood, Mary B. W F 67 wife married keeping house NJ NJ NY Neff, Susan M. W F 40 daughter married at home NJ NJ NJ Neff, Stewart W M 14 grand-son single at home NJ OH NJ Sexton, Delia W F 19 Servant single NY Ireland Ireland

Note received 9 Sep 2009, from Anthony L. Troha, Ph.D. of the Canal Society of New Jersey: Mary Burwell Jackson Wood's original obituary can be found at http://rtlibrary.org/iron_era/1899/1899-08-25.pdf , but it is difficult to read, so I have transcribed it for you:

Obituary of Mrs. Mary Burwell Wood née Jackson from "The Iron Era" of Friday, August 25, 1899 (Volume XXIX, Number 40, Page 4, Column 2) published in Dover, Morris County, New Jersey

Wood - In Orange, N. J., at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Albridge C. Smith, on Wednesday, August 23, 1899, Mrs. Freeman Wood, widow of Judge Freeman Wood. Funeral services will be held at No. (illegible) Lincoln avenue, Orange, at 1 o'clock p.m. Saturday, August 26. Interment in Rockaway on arrival of 2 o'clock train from New York.

"Wood The many Dover friends of Mrs. Mary B. Wood, widow of the late Judge Freeman Wood, will regret to learn of her death which took place on Wednesday night of this week at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Albridge C. Smith, in Orange. Mrs. Wood was born at Rockaway on August 3, 1812 and was married there in 1831. She was the daughter of William Jackson and Susan D. Halsey Jackson and spent the most of her life in this vicinity. She was for many years a member of the Dover Presbyterian Church. Judge Wood took up his residence here in the Spring of 1872 and since his death in 1891, Mrs. Wood made Dover her home until last fall when on account of her advanced age she went to Orange to live with her daughter. The funeral services will be held at [address illegible; it may say "318"] Lincoln avenue, Orange, on Saturday at 1 p.m. Interment will be made in Rockaway Cemetery at 4 p.m."

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} New Jersey, Morris, Dover newspaper "The Iron Era" rtlibrary.org/iron era/1899/1899-08-25.pdf
   Volume XXIX, Number 40, Pg 4, Col 2.
2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Obituary.

   Her obituary is posted in her notes and was provided by Anthony Troha, Ph.D., of the Canal Society of NJ.

3. ↑ Find A Grave.
4.   Robbins, Oscar Burton. History of the Jackson family of Hempstead, Long Island, N.Y., Ohio and Indiana: descendants of Robert and Agnes Washburn Jackson. (Loveland, Colo.: Robbins, 1951)
   18.
5.   Email from Cheryl (Chatfield) Thompson.
6.   United States. 1850 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432)
   1850 Census, Rockaway, Morris Co., New Jersey.
7.   United States. 1860 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M653)
   1860 Census, Rockaway, Morris Co., New Jersey.
8.   United States. 1870 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publications M593 and T132)
   Frenchtown, Hunterdon Co., New Jersey.
9.   United States. 1880 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication T9)
   Dover, Morris Co., New Jersey.