Mrs. W. H. Rood. Linda Pierce Rood was born at Chemung, Illinois, June 2, 1858, and died at her home in this village early Thursday morning, May 30, lacking only three days of being fifty-four years of age. Not long after her birth her parents moved to Clinton, Wisconsin, where her home was till she moved with her parents to Valley county in June, 1878. After coming here she taught school at Scotia and in the Mansell Davis district. She taught too, in Wisconsin before coming west.
April 7, 1880, she was married to Herman Rood. To them was born one child, Mrs. O. R. Hill.
She was in most excellent health till about five years ago when she began to suffer from a cancer. She went to York State where she submitted to an operation, and was later treated at the same place. Finding that she was not helped by the treatment she went to Hot Springs, South Dakota, for treatment but to no avail and last fall she came home and calmly and patiently waited for the end which she knew could not be far away. Tho her sufferings were intense at times yet no word of complaint was given and thru her sickness was more thotful for others than for herself. And this was characteristic of Linda. She was wonderfully helpful at all times no needy one ever going to her in vain. She was an enthusiastic worker in the Degree of Honor, the No-Lo Study Club and W.R.C. At the funeral held from the S.D.B. church Friday the Degree and club attended in a body as did the G.A.R. The floral offerings, the gifts of her many friends, were the most elaborate ever seen at the church at a funeral and showed in some degree the high esteem in which she was held.
In her death came the first break in the large Rood family - of the seventeen children by birth and marriage, and the seventy-three grandchildren of mother Rood, Linda is the first to go.
And so a good, helpful woman has gone and with her going many hearts are made sad, but the sadness is made lighter by the thot that there will sometime come a meeting.
