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pic - David Owings (2007)
George Brown Wood (brother to S C Boggess' mother Sarah), to Carthage 13 October 1882 with Emma Jane (Howell) Wood and two daughters, Laura & Gertrude, for 1880 Federal census lived in Sunsbury township, Monroe county, Ohio, just south of Bellaire, Ohio where brother John Henry Wood lived, but last lived in this home at 1320 S Main St, across street & trolley tracks from his brother, CSA veteran, Thomas Kennerly "TK" Wood's (to Jasper county 1869) oldest daughter, Georgie (1870MO-1953MO), Mrs Edgar H Irwin. George built many fine structures such as Carthage Collegiate College, many other school buildings several fine homes, some of the early streets, plus Carthage's first telephone system. At turn of century, he spent three years near Wheeling, WV installing telephone systems, then assisting in development of Carthage's Bellaire Place (no doubt named for Bellaire, Belmont county, Ohio, and he just may (?) have built the Rose house in which he lived and died), and was a director of Carthage National Bank as well as a public spirited citizen of Jasper county.
The Rose House
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Victorian Vernacular built in 1899 for G. A. Rose who owned Rose Mercantile Company. It is mainly a combination of Queen Anne and Classical Revival features. Doric columns on stone piers with balustrade support the porch roof. It has an unusual decorative floral frieze under the second floor bracketed cornice.
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George Brown Wood (1852VA-1941MO), was tenth of eleven known childern of Cassandra Hess (Brown) and John Wood, born in upper Tenmile district, Harrison county, Virginia (now West Virginia) and brother to "Sis", Sarah Elizabeth (Wood) Boggess http://community.webtv.net/billboggess2/SARAHELIZABETHWOOD , educated in Harrison county, married in Wheeling, Ohio county, West Virginia and with family arrived 13 October 1882 in Carthage after their river boat trip from Wheeling, Ohio county, West Virginia to Saint Louis then a Frisco train ride, with two daughters, and likely his nephew Edward John Wood, (1863WV-1943WV) fourth known s/o oldest brother James Alexander (1834VA-1914WV) who may have joined in the trip for he spent about fourteen months in Carthage, later in 1908 became Mayor of Clarksburg, WV. They lost a son in 1885. As afore mentioned, he became a successful contractor. At time of George's death (from senility), he had lost his wife, Emma Jane Howell, six years earlier, his parents plus all six brothers and four sisters. His oldest daughter, a librarian till March 1940 (over 25 years), Laura May Wood (1873WV-1947MO) living with him at 1320 south Main street, across street from niece, "Georgie", Mrs Edgar H Irwin, oldest child of brother "T K" (1842VA-1918MO) who died January 1918 in "Sis"- Sarah's, home where she died in June 1918, neither due to deadly 1918 national flu epedimic while her son S C Boggess (1874WV-1946MN) was mayor. Their sister, Henrietta Jane (Wood) Jarvis (1847VA-1928OK), arrived in Carthage with widowed "Sis", Sarah, in September 1889. |
Pic from 14 September 1924, Church Bulletin
7th at Main street
Built By Geo B Wood
Pic - Jasper county schools
1435 S Main Street (where Mark Twain sets now)
Built by Geo B Wood
pic - Jasper county schools
Main & Chestnut (Central School to left built 1872 replaced with 1904, $100,000, four story, Carthage stone structure existing today with a couple major enlargements.)
Built in 1890 by Geo Wood, later known as "Manual Arts Building" (later removed for expansion of newer 1904 building)
pic - Powers Museum
824 Fulton
Built by Geo B Wood
Pic - Powers Museum
3rd & Orchard
Built by Geo B Wood
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