The Daily Tribune of South Haven, Michigan carried an obituary of William H. Wooldridge on the front page on Monday November 28, 1910 and it reads: "TUMOR ON BRAIN CAUSES DEATH Had Previously Brot Blindness and Epilepsy to Its Victim, Wm. H. Wooldridge, Who Was Buried This Afternoon William Henry Wooldridge who passed quietly and peacefully away Saturday morning, was buried this afternoon in Lake View cemetery, services having been conducted by Rev. A.F. Nager at 2:30 at the home, 520 Phoenix St. W.H. Wooldridge had been afflicted for the past two years with tumor on the brain. From this cause he gradually became totally blind and subject to epilepsy. Since last February he has been as dependent as a young child upon some one to guide his footsteps and to look after his welfare, and the past four weeks the epileptic paroxysms have increased in number and intensity. Two years ago this coming May Mrs. Wooldridge was taken to the hospital at Ann Arbor for an operation from which she died. Although his eyesight was then falling him he continued to work as engineer in the Pierce-Williams factory which position he had held since coming here five years ago. His sight gradually grew dim however and he gave up his work about a year ago. A trip was made to Ann Arbor to learn if anything could be done, but he was given no hope. Mr. Wooldridge was born at Plymouth, N.Y., July 18, 1867, and was therefore not much past 43 years of age, young for such an affliction to have fallen upon him. There are left to mourn, four children, Sarah, aged 18, who remained with her father, Luther, aged 15, who lives with an uncle at Orgegon, Ill., and did not arrive for the funeral; Esther, aged ten, who has been adopted by a cousin, Mrs. Swan Nelson, living near this city, and William Henry, a nine months old babe, the child of a young woman he married a few months after the death of his wife. There is also the aged mother who has been her son's constant attendant for the past several months. The pall bearers this afternoon were relatives, Isaac Wooldridge, a brother of Kalamazoo, Geo. and Phil Arbogast, cousins of this city, W.B. Abrams of Kibbe, Edgar Brackett of Galien and Mr. Elwell of Grand Junction" Note: Plymouth is in Chenango County, New York. Mr. Elwell would have been Frances Elwell. The wife who died in 1909 was Frances (Arbogast) Wooldridge, his 2nd wife. He married 1st Olive or Allie Powell and they had no children and she later remarried Kenard Slocum. He married 3rd to Mary Chaddock.
The Daily Tribune of South Haven, Michigan carried an obituary of William H. Wooldridge on the front page on Monday November 28, 1910 and it reads: "TUMOR ON BRAIN CAUSES DEATH Had Previously Brot Blindness and Epilepsy to Its Victim, Wm. H. Wooldridge, Who Was Buried This Afternoon William Henry Wooldridge who passed quietly and peacefully away Saturday morning, was buried this afternoon in Lake View cemetery, services having been conducted by Rev. A.F. Nager at 2:30 at the home, 520 Phoenix St. W.H. Wooldridge had been afflicted for the past two years with tumor on the brain. From this cause he gradually became totally blind and subject to epilepsy. Since last February he has been as dependent as a young child upon some one to guide his footsteps and to look after his welfare, and the past four weeks the epileptic paroxysms have increased in number and intensity. Two years ago this coming May Mrs. Wooldridge was taken to the hospital at Ann Arbor for an operation from which she died. Although his eyesight was then falling him he continued to work as engineer in the Pierce-Williams factory which position he had held since coming here five years ago. His sight gradually grew dim however and he gave up his work about a year ago. A trip was made to Ann Arbor to learn if anything could be done, but he was given no hope. Mr. Wooldridge was born at Plymouth, N.Y., July 18, 1867, and was therefore not much past 43 years of age, young for such an affliction to have fallen upon him. There are left to mourn, four children, Sarah, aged 18, who remained with her father, Luther, aged 15, who lives with an uncle at Orgegon, Ill., and did not arrive for the funeral; Esther, aged ten, who has been adopted by a cousin, Mrs. Swan Nelson, living near this city, and William Henry, a nine months old babe, the child of a young woman he married a few months after the death of his wife. There is also the aged mother who has been her son's constant attendant for the past several months. The pall bearers this afternoon were relatives, Isaac Wooldridge, a brother of Kalamazoo, Geo. and Phil Arbogast, cousins of this city, W.B. Abrams of Kibbe, Edgar Brackett of Galien and Mr. Elwell of Grand Junction" Note: Plymouth is in Chenango County, New York. Mr. Elwell would have been Frances Elwell. The wife who died in 1909 was Frances (Arbogast) Wooldridge, his 2nd wife. He married 1st Olive or Allie Powell and they had no children and she later remarried Kenard Slocum. He married 3rd to Mary Chaddock.
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