Phoebe Wood

F, (3 September 1806 - 22 December 1891)

Father*Abner Wood (17 Mar 1765 - 25 Aug 1824)
Mother*Rebecca Campbell1 (3 Mar 1773 - 18 Apr 1853)
Phoebe Wood|b. 3 Sep 1806\nd. 22 Dec 1891|p2351.htm|Abner Wood|b. 17 Mar 1765\nd. 25 Aug 1824|p2378.htm|Rebecca Campbell|b. 3 Mar 1773\nd. 18 Apr 1853|p2379.htm|Theophilus Wood|b. 1718|p2384.htm|Elizabeth Benjamin|b. bt 1716 - 1725|p2385.htm|Samuel Campbell|b. c 1733|p2380.htm||||

Charts Pedigree for Phoebe Alice Jones
Relationship 3rd great-grandmother of James Jay McKinney.
Last Edited 7 Jan 2007
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Married Name Morris2 
Birth*3 September 1806 NY, In 1880 Census it appears to state that Mother of Eunice Sloan was born in NY. Alternative date of 9 Sep. given by Phyllis.3,4,1 
Marriage*3 October 1826 Scioto Co., OH, "Thomas Morris To Phebe [sic] Wood: The State of Ohio Scioto County This is to certify that Thomas Morris and Phebe Wood were joined in matrimony on the third instant, persuant to a license from the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County by me. October 13th 1826. John Dewitt M.G." [M.G.= minister of god?], Principal=Thomas S. Morris2,5 
Census*1860 Jefferson Township, Scioto Co., OH, Thomas Morris Age 55 farmer born in MD $2,500 property value. Shown with Phebe (age 53), Mary (25), Theophilus(22), Eunice (20), Limon (16), Emily (13), Eliphel (12), and Milburn (2 Mary's child), Principal=Thomas S. Morris6 
Residence*circa 1866 Flat Woods, Scioto Co., OH, "This family of eight children lived several miles over the big hill from the Grimshaw home [family of Eliphel Morris's future husband in Scioto Co., OH near Lucasville] in a community which bore the name of Flat Woods, as did also the Methodist Church and the country school she [Eliphel] attended. They [Eliphel and Matthew Grimshaw] were both nineteen and regular attendants of the Methodist church.", Principal=Thomas S. Morris7 
Illness*circa 1879 Afflicted with blindness.4 
Residence*circa 1883 Macon Co., MO, "After Grandmother Morris became a widow she lived among her eight children spending a year in Missouri about the time the twins were 10 years old [ca 1883]. Most of the time she spent in the Grimshaw home, making regular visits with the other two daughters. She was in fairly good health and, in spite of being almost blind, she helped by knitting socks as she sat by the fireplace. It was a mystery to Arthur how she could knit with seldom a dropped stitch, although his mother had to set up the sock on the needles and toe off the finished product."7 
Residencecirca 1889 OH, "Joe ... and Eliphel made their first trip back to Ohio in 1889 to visit their parents."7 
Death*22 December 1891 Lucasville, Scioto Co., OH, Obituary of PHOEBE WOOD MORRIS:
Portsmouth Blade, Saturday,January 16, 1892
IN MEMORIAM
Died, at the residence of her son-in-law, James Saunders, of Lucasville, Dec. 22, 1891, Mrs. Phoebe Morris, ages 85 years, 3 months and 19 days. “Grandmother Morris” as she was familiarly called by every one, was born in the State of New York, Sep. 3, 1806. She came when quite young with her father’s family to Portsmouth. There were only a few log huts along the banks of the Ohio, one of which was the old log school house, with its chinked walls and large open fireplace. She remembered while attending this school of seeing the first steamboat that passed along the Ohio, the teacher taking his school out to see it.
After a short stay in Portsmouth, her father removed to the “Glades”, near Harrisonville, where a brother of hers yet resides. His house was the home and preaching place of the itinerant in his rounds. Through the means of these pioneers of the church, she was converted at the age of nine years, and lived a life devoted to her Savior and her family. In her father’s family there were twelve children, only one of whom is left. In her own family there were the same number of children, eight of whom survive her.
She lived to see the country, which, when she came to it, was covered by forests with only Indian trails traveling it and filled with wild beasts, covered with thriving villages and traveled by the railway train with its life and energy.
Twelve years ago she became afflicted with blindness, an affliction which she bore for the most part with great Christian resignation. Though her physical eyes were darkened her spiritual vision was enlarged. Before the blindness came upon her she delighted greatly in reading the Bible, and, when no longer able to do this herself, she greatly enjoyed talking about her Savior, delighted to hear the Word read, and loved the voice of prayer and singing.
A few weeks before she died she attended public service for the last time and partook of the sacrament. She greatly enjoyed the service and manifested it by praises to God.
It has been the privilege of the writer to read and pray and talk with her a great many times, always to his encouragement and strengthening, to see how a servant of God could so triumph over bodily infirmities and enjoy communion with Christ.
At her request I read to her the day before she died from the 51 Psalm. She remarked, “They tell me there can’t be anything whiter than snow, but I know there is and I want you to read it to me.” Yes, she had experienced that the blood of Jesus can make whiter than snow.
She was given a tranquil hour in which to die. Her breathing, which had been labored and heavy, became as regular and peaceful as that of an infant. With “Hallelujah" repeated over and over again she passed from the darkness of this earth to behold the King in his beauty and to dwell with him evermore. “For they shall see his face, and his name shall be in their foreheads.”
Truly “Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord”. Let us so live that we may in this life be clothed with the favor of God as with a garment, and, after death, at his right hand may enjoy his fullness forevermore.
A Friend
[transcribed by unknown person, copy of transcription provided to Jim McKinney by Phyllis Zachow]4 
(Witness) Note1988 

Pioneers of Northeast Missouri Their Ancestors and Descendants.By Marlin A. Field. Printed by Dogwood Printing. P. O. Box 716, Ozark, Missouri 65721 Printed June 1988. Located Library of Congress .F54 1988 Mentions the Morris family in conjunction with the Fields family which is more throughly discussed. Mentions that Jen married Jefferson Jones. Jeff Field married E,ily ann Morris her sister.
, Principal=John Jefferson Jones, Principal=Sarah Jane Sloan 

Family

Thomas S. Morris
Marriage*3 October 1826 Scioto Co., OH, "Thomas Morris To Phebe [sic] Wood: The State of Ohio Scioto County This is to certify that Thomas Morris and Phebe Wood were joined in matrimony on the third instant, persuant to a license from the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County by me. October 13th 1826. John Dewitt M.G." [M.G.= minister of god?], Principal=Thomas S. Morris2,5 
Children

Citations

  1. [S70] E-mail: Email from Phyllis Zachow to Jim McKinney sent on 12/26/2005.
  2. [S41] Unknown author, Early Marriage Records of Scioto County, OH Vol. I 1804-1840 Indexed. (n.p.: n.pub., unknown publish date).
  3. [S118] 1880 US Federal Census: Valley Township, Macon Co., MO: Supv Dist No.5 Enum.Dist. 137? Page No. 11 Line 29 of Theoppilus Sloan.
  4. [S63] Unpublished: Xerox of transcript of Phoebe (nee Wood) Morris Obituary.
  5. [S93] Unknown subject, unknown repository, unknown repository address, Will of Thomas S. Morris on August 28, 1879.
  6. [S70] E-mail: Transcribed via e-mail from Phyllis Zachow to Jim McKinney on 27 Feb 2000.
  7. [S39] Naomi H. (nee Cavender) Grimshaw, We Remember Arthur W. Grimshaw (n.p.: Unpublished, Circa 1962.). Hereinafter cited as We Remember Arthur W. Grimshaw.