Enlisted as a Private on August 20, 1862 in Co. G, 30th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment. Mustered out on September 20, 1865 in Louisville, KY.
"The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 79, No 6, p 191, Aug. 9, 1915.
Deacon George Burrell Rood was born April 12, 1847, in the town of Lake, near Milwaukee, Wis., and died July 10, 1915, in his sixty-ninth year.
He was second in the family of nine children born to Charles P. and Marianne Thorngate Rood. The four brothers and four sisters all survive him. His parents soon moved to Rock Prairie, then in 1851 to Dakota, Waushara Co., there to become pioneers in a new country. In 1862, when only fifteen years old, he enlisted in Company G of the 30th Wisconsin Infantry, in which he did faithful service three years. March 21, 1869, he was married to Miss Virginia Saxton of Berlin [WI].
In the spring of 1872 he, with several other Seventh Day Baptist families, emigrated to the pioneer colony of North Loup, Neb., where he made a homestead near the present village of North Loup. He was secretary of the colony, and became intimately connected with the development of the community.
Under the preaching of Elder Charles M. Lewis, he had been baptized and received into the Seventh Day Baptist church at Dakota. He became one of the constituent members of the North Loup church and one of its first deacons, an office with which he was honored there and at Milton until his death.
In 1901 he came with his family to Milton in order that his two children in school might have a home there. He was a man of staunch convictions and of sterling integrity. He was a good citizen, a consistent, every-day Christian, a kind neighbor and a faithful friend. He has been active in church work, in the Grand Army Post and in the Good Templar's Lodge. He was the superintendent of the Care of the Sick and Distressed in the Brotherhood, Patriotic Instructor of the Grand Army, and always a loyal lover of the grand old flag under which he had served as a mere boy. His first loyalty was always to the church of Christ. His wife and four children survive to cherish his memory. Funeral services were held at the church July 12 conducted by Pastor Randolph, assisted by Comrade W. J. McKay, commander of the Wisconsin G. A. R. The text was of his own choosing, John 3: 16. L. C. R.
(Rootsweb.com: "They Came To Milton" Entry #:161644, by Jon Saunders).
(Submitted by Jean Jorgensen #47179150)
"The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 79, No 6, p 191, Aug. 9, 1915.
Deacon George Burrell Rood was born April 12, 1847, in the town of Lake, near Milwaukee, Wis., and died July 10, 1915, in his sixty-ninth year.
He was second in the family of nine children born to Charles P. and Marianne Thorngate Rood. The four brothers and four sisters all survive him. His parents soon moved to Rock Prairie, then in 1851 to Dakota, Waushara Co., there to become pioneers in a new country. In 1862, when only fifteen years old, he enlisted in Company G of the 30th Wisconsin Infantry, in which he did faithful service three years. March 21, 1869, he was married to Miss Virginia Saxton of Berlin [WI].
In the spring of 1872 he, with several other Seventh Day Baptist families, emigrated to the pioneer colony of North Loup, Neb., where he made a homestead near the present village of North Loup. He was secretary of the colony, and became intimately connected with the development of the community.
Under the preaching of Elder Charles M. Lewis, he had been baptized and received into the Seventh Day Baptist church at Dakota. He became one of the constituent members of the North Loup church and one of its first deacons, an office with which he was honored there and at Milton until his death.
In 1901 he came with his family to Milton in order that his two children in school might have a home there. He was a man of staunch convictions and of sterling integrity. He was a good citizen, a consistent, every-day Christian, a kind neighbor and a faithful friend. He has been active in church work, in the Grand Army Post and in the Good Templar's Lodge. He was the superintendent of the Care of the Sick and Distressed in the Brotherhood, Patriotic Instructor of the Grand Army, and always a loyal lover of the grand old flag under which he had served as a mere boy. His first loyalty was always to the church of Christ. His wife and four children survive to cherish his memory. Funeral services were held at the church July 12 conducted by Pastor Randolph, assisted by Comrade W. J. McKay, commander of the Wisconsin G. A. R. The text was of his own choosing, John 3: 16. L. C. R.
(Rootsweb.com: "They Came To Milton" Entry #:161644, by Jon Saunders).
(Submitted by Jean Jorgensen #47179150)
Enlisted as a Private on August 20, 1862 in Co. G, 30th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment. Mustered out on September 20, 1865 in Louisville, KY.
"The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 79, No 6, p 191, Aug. 9, 1915.
Deacon George Burrell Rood was born April 12, 1847, in the town of Lake, near Milwaukee, Wis., and died July 10, 1915, in his sixty-ninth year.
He was second in the family of nine children born to Charles P. and Marianne Thorngate Rood. The four brothers and four sisters all survive him. His parents soon moved to Rock Prairie, then in 1851 to Dakota, Waushara Co., there to become pioneers in a new country. In 1862, when only fifteen years old, he enlisted in Company G of the 30th Wisconsin Infantry, in which he did faithful service three years. March 21, 1869, he was married to Miss Virginia Saxton of Berlin [WI].
In the spring of 1872 he, with several other Seventh Day Baptist families, emigrated to the pioneer colony of North Loup, Neb., where he made a homestead near the present village of North Loup. He was secretary of the colony, and became intimately connected with the development of the community.
Under the preaching of Elder Charles M. Lewis, he had been baptized and received into the Seventh Day Baptist church at Dakota. He became one of the constituent members of the North Loup church and one of its first deacons, an office with which he was honored there and at Milton until his death.
In 1901 he came with his family to Milton in order that his two children in school might have a home there. He was a man of staunch convictions and of sterling integrity. He was a good citizen, a consistent, every-day Christian, a kind neighbor and a faithful friend. He has been active in church work, in the Grand Army Post and in the Good Templar's Lodge. He was the superintendent of the Care of the Sick and Distressed in the Brotherhood, Patriotic Instructor of the Grand Army, and always a loyal lover of the grand old flag under which he had served as a mere boy. His first loyalty was always to the church of Christ. His wife and four children survive to cherish his memory. Funeral services were held at the church July 12 conducted by Pastor Randolph, assisted by Comrade W. J. McKay, commander of the Wisconsin G. A. R. The text was of his own choosing, John 3: 16. L. C. R.
(Rootsweb.com: "They Came To Milton" Entry #:161644, by Jon Saunders).
(Submitted by Jean Jorgensen #47179150)
"The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 79, No 6, p 191, Aug. 9, 1915.
Deacon George Burrell Rood was born April 12, 1847, in the town of Lake, near Milwaukee, Wis., and died July 10, 1915, in his sixty-ninth year.
He was second in the family of nine children born to Charles P. and Marianne Thorngate Rood. The four brothers and four sisters all survive him. His parents soon moved to Rock Prairie, then in 1851 to Dakota, Waushara Co., there to become pioneers in a new country. In 1862, when only fifteen years old, he enlisted in Company G of the 30th Wisconsin Infantry, in which he did faithful service three years. March 21, 1869, he was married to Miss Virginia Saxton of Berlin [WI].
In the spring of 1872 he, with several other Seventh Day Baptist families, emigrated to the pioneer colony of North Loup, Neb., where he made a homestead near the present village of North Loup. He was secretary of the colony, and became intimately connected with the development of the community.
Under the preaching of Elder Charles M. Lewis, he had been baptized and received into the Seventh Day Baptist church at Dakota. He became one of the constituent members of the North Loup church and one of its first deacons, an office with which he was honored there and at Milton until his death.
In 1901 he came with his family to Milton in order that his two children in school might have a home there. He was a man of staunch convictions and of sterling integrity. He was a good citizen, a consistent, every-day Christian, a kind neighbor and a faithful friend. He has been active in church work, in the Grand Army Post and in the Good Templar's Lodge. He was the superintendent of the Care of the Sick and Distressed in the Brotherhood, Patriotic Instructor of the Grand Army, and always a loyal lover of the grand old flag under which he had served as a mere boy. His first loyalty was always to the church of Christ. His wife and four children survive to cherish his memory. Funeral services were held at the church July 12 conducted by Pastor Randolph, assisted by Comrade W. J. McKay, commander of the Wisconsin G. A. R. The text was of his own choosing, John 3: 16. L. C. R.
(Rootsweb.com: "They Came To Milton" Entry #:161644, by Jon Saunders).
(Submitted by Jean Jorgensen #47179150)
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