"The North Loup Loyalist", North Loup, Nebraska, Friday, Apr. 30, 1915, p 1.
Marianne Thorngate Rood was born in Jefferson county, New York, January 13, 1823 and died at her home in this village Thursday afternoon, April 22, 1915, aged a little over 92 years and 3 months. Her father was George Thorngate, who came to this country as an English soldier in the war of 1812 - her mother was a Blanchard of sturdy New England stock. Mrs. Rood was the oldest of her father's family of two girls and four boys. Of the family only one is left - uncle Henry Thorngate of North Loup.
July 13, 1844 she was united in marriage with Charles P. Rood. To this union were born nine children, five sons and four daughters, all of whom survive her, and [] of whom were at her bedside when the death angel came to summon her home. Besides her children she leaves thirty-two grandchildren and twenty-six great grandchildren. Of this large family only the father and mother have been called home together with a granddaughter, a daughter-in-law and a son-in-law.
In the fall of 1845 she removed with her husband, babe, and father's family to southern Wisconsin. Here was her home for several years when they went with a colony to Waushara county in the same state. When the Dakota colony was broken up and came to Nebraska her husband was among the first to leave - he made two trips overland the year previous to the breaking up of the colony in 1872, and it was thru his influence the Seventh Day Baptist people were induced to settle at North Loup. Mrs. Rood came in 1875 making the trip overland with her husband and two youngest children. They were seven long weeks on the road, making the trip with an ox team.
In 1843 she was converted and with her sister and two brothers was baptized by Rev. Thomas E. Babcock and became a member of the Persia, N. Y. Seventh-Day Baptist church, to which place her father had moved when she was a child. She became a constituent member of the Dakota Seventh-Day Baptist church and later her membership was transferred to the church of her faith at North Loup. During all the years of her church membership she was a consistent Christian, ever believing in the teaching of her church having faith in the denomination of which she was a part, always trusting her pastors and the leaders in the denomination - her trust in her Savior was abiding and was beautiful to see. She said but little about her religion - she did not need to, it showed in her every day life. She was never demonstrative but was an ardent lover of her home and family and to them she gave her best thots and care. She was a great reader, being deprived of early educational advantages, she sought thru reading and home study to supply her natural desire for an education. She was well read, reading each day the daily papers, books and magazines. Her Bible was her daily companion. Only those who knew her best knew of the wealth of good things there were in her mind, how progressive she was in her thots, how ready to accept new things and conditions.
She was thoroly loyal. During the Civil war she offered in defense of her country her husband, three sons and all her brothers. All returned to their homes except one brother. At the outbreak of the Spanish-American war she asked her youngest son if he wanted to enlist and when he replied in the affirmative she said: 'I feel that I have given my country all it ought to ask of me, but if you are needed to defend your flag and fail to meet that need I shall be ashamed of you.' She loved her country and home quietly but devotedly. Because of her diffidence she was unassuming and her real self was known only to those who knew her in her home. She was very firm, was very gentle. Her son, who always found a home with her, says he never heard her say an unkind word about any one, never heard her complain, never heard her gossip, never knew her to be cross or impatient. She was an ideal mother, and now she is gone, gone home to be with Him whom she loved and in whom she had so much trust.
Several weeks before her death she began failing in health, but the change was so gradual those who were with her could scarcely note the change. Death was due to old age - she was like a piece of delicate machinery which had worn out - she suffered no pain, had all her faculties till a short time before her death.
Funeral services were held at her home Saturday afternoon, April 24, conducted by her pastor, Rev. George B. Shaw, and she was laid to rest beside her husband, father and stepmother in the city of the dead
Marianne Thorngate Rood was born in Jefferson county, New York, January 13, 1823 and died at her home in this village Thursday afternoon, April 22, 1915, aged a little over 92 years and 3 months. Her father was George Thorngate, who came to this country as an English soldier in the war of 1812 - her mother was a Blanchard of sturdy New England stock. Mrs. Rood was the oldest of her father's family of two girls and four boys. Of the family only one is left - uncle Henry Thorngate of North Loup.
July 13, 1844 she was united in marriage with Charles P. Rood. To this union were born nine children, five sons and four daughters, all of whom survive her, and [] of whom were at her bedside when the death angel came to summon her home. Besides her children she leaves thirty-two grandchildren and twenty-six great grandchildren. Of this large family only the father and mother have been called home together with a granddaughter, a daughter-in-law and a son-in-law.
In the fall of 1845 she removed with her husband, babe, and father's family to southern Wisconsin. Here was her home for several years when they went with a colony to Waushara county in the same state. When the Dakota colony was broken up and came to Nebraska her husband was among the first to leave - he made two trips overland the year previous to the breaking up of the colony in 1872, and it was thru his influence the Seventh Day Baptist people were induced to settle at North Loup. Mrs. Rood came in 1875 making the trip overland with her husband and two youngest children. They were seven long weeks on the road, making the trip with an ox team.
In 1843 she was converted and with her sister and two brothers was baptized by Rev. Thomas E. Babcock and became a member of the Persia, N. Y. Seventh-Day Baptist church, to which place her father had moved when she was a child. She became a constituent member of the Dakota Seventh-Day Baptist church and later her membership was transferred to the church of her faith at North Loup. During all the years of her church membership she was a consistent Christian, ever believing in the teaching of her church having faith in the denomination of which she was a part, always trusting her pastors and the leaders in the denomination - her trust in her Savior was abiding and was beautiful to see. She said but little about her religion - she did not need to, it showed in her every day life. She was never demonstrative but was an ardent lover of her home and family and to them she gave her best thots and care. She was a great reader, being deprived of early educational advantages, she sought thru reading and home study to supply her natural desire for an education. She was well read, reading each day the daily papers, books and magazines. Her Bible was her daily companion. Only those who knew her best knew of the wealth of good things there were in her mind, how progressive she was in her thots, how ready to accept new things and conditions.
She was thoroly loyal. During the Civil war she offered in defense of her country her husband, three sons and all her brothers. All returned to their homes except one brother. At the outbreak of the Spanish-American war she asked her youngest son if he wanted to enlist and when he replied in the affirmative she said: 'I feel that I have given my country all it ought to ask of me, but if you are needed to defend your flag and fail to meet that need I shall be ashamed of you.' She loved her country and home quietly but devotedly. Because of her diffidence she was unassuming and her real self was known only to those who knew her in her home. She was very firm, was very gentle. Her son, who always found a home with her, says he never heard her say an unkind word about any one, never heard her complain, never heard her gossip, never knew her to be cross or impatient. She was an ideal mother, and now she is gone, gone home to be with Him whom she loved and in whom she had so much trust.
Several weeks before her death she began failing in health, but the change was so gradual those who were with her could scarcely note the change. Death was due to old age - she was like a piece of delicate machinery which had worn out - she suffered no pain, had all her faculties till a short time before her death.
Funeral services were held at her home Saturday afternoon, April 24, conducted by her pastor, Rev. George B. Shaw, and she was laid to rest beside her husband, father and stepmother in the city of the dead
"The North Loup Loyalist", North Loup, Nebraska, Friday, Apr. 30, 1915, p 1.
Marianne Thorngate Rood was born in Jefferson county, New York, January 13, 1823 and died at her home in this village Thursday afternoon, April 22, 1915, aged a little over 92 years and 3 months. Her father was George Thorngate, who came to this country as an English soldier in the war of 1812 - her mother was a Blanchard of sturdy New England stock. Mrs. Rood was the oldest of her father's family of two girls and four boys. Of the family only one is left - uncle Henry Thorngate of North Loup.
July 13, 1844 she was united in marriage with Charles P. Rood. To this union were born nine children, five sons and four daughters, all of whom survive her, and [] of whom were at her bedside when the death angel came to summon her home. Besides her children she leaves thirty-two grandchildren and twenty-six great grandchildren. Of this large family only the father and mother have been called home together with a granddaughter, a daughter-in-law and a son-in-law.
In the fall of 1845 she removed with her husband, babe, and father's family to southern Wisconsin. Here was her home for several years when they went with a colony to Waushara county in the same state. When the Dakota colony was broken up and came to Nebraska her husband was among the first to leave - he made two trips overland the year previous to the breaking up of the colony in 1872, and it was thru his influence the Seventh Day Baptist people were induced to settle at North Loup. Mrs. Rood came in 1875 making the trip overland with her husband and two youngest children. They were seven long weeks on the road, making the trip with an ox team.
In 1843 she was converted and with her sister and two brothers was baptized by Rev. Thomas E. Babcock and became a member of the Persia, N. Y. Seventh-Day Baptist church, to which place her father had moved when she was a child. She became a constituent member of the Dakota Seventh-Day Baptist church and later her membership was transferred to the church of her faith at North Loup. During all the years of her church membership she was a consistent Christian, ever believing in the teaching of her church having faith in the denomination of which she was a part, always trusting her pastors and the leaders in the denomination - her trust in her Savior was abiding and was beautiful to see. She said but little about her religion - she did not need to, it showed in her every day life. She was never demonstrative but was an ardent lover of her home and family and to them she gave her best thots and care. She was a great reader, being deprived of early educational advantages, she sought thru reading and home study to supply her natural desire for an education. She was well read, reading each day the daily papers, books and magazines. Her Bible was her daily companion. Only those who knew her best knew of the wealth of good things there were in her mind, how progressive she was in her thots, how ready to accept new things and conditions.
She was thoroly loyal. During the Civil war she offered in defense of her country her husband, three sons and all her brothers. All returned to their homes except one brother. At the outbreak of the Spanish-American war she asked her youngest son if he wanted to enlist and when he replied in the affirmative she said: 'I feel that I have given my country all it ought to ask of me, but if you are needed to defend your flag and fail to meet that need I shall be ashamed of you.' She loved her country and home quietly but devotedly. Because of her diffidence she was unassuming and her real self was known only to those who knew her in her home. She was very firm, was very gentle. Her son, who always found a home with her, says he never heard her say an unkind word about any one, never heard her complain, never heard her gossip, never knew her to be cross or impatient. She was an ideal mother, and now she is gone, gone home to be with Him whom she loved and in whom she had so much trust.
Several weeks before her death she began failing in health, but the change was so gradual those who were with her could scarcely note the change. Death was due to old age - she was like a piece of delicate machinery which had worn out - she suffered no pain, had all her faculties till a short time before her death.
Funeral services were held at her home Saturday afternoon, April 24, conducted by her pastor, Rev. George B. Shaw, and she was laid to rest beside her husband, father and stepmother in the city of the dead
Marianne Thorngate Rood was born in Jefferson county, New York, January 13, 1823 and died at her home in this village Thursday afternoon, April 22, 1915, aged a little over 92 years and 3 months. Her father was George Thorngate, who came to this country as an English soldier in the war of 1812 - her mother was a Blanchard of sturdy New England stock. Mrs. Rood was the oldest of her father's family of two girls and four boys. Of the family only one is left - uncle Henry Thorngate of North Loup.
July 13, 1844 she was united in marriage with Charles P. Rood. To this union were born nine children, five sons and four daughters, all of whom survive her, and [] of whom were at her bedside when the death angel came to summon her home. Besides her children she leaves thirty-two grandchildren and twenty-six great grandchildren. Of this large family only the father and mother have been called home together with a granddaughter, a daughter-in-law and a son-in-law.
In the fall of 1845 she removed with her husband, babe, and father's family to southern Wisconsin. Here was her home for several years when they went with a colony to Waushara county in the same state. When the Dakota colony was broken up and came to Nebraska her husband was among the first to leave - he made two trips overland the year previous to the breaking up of the colony in 1872, and it was thru his influence the Seventh Day Baptist people were induced to settle at North Loup. Mrs. Rood came in 1875 making the trip overland with her husband and two youngest children. They were seven long weeks on the road, making the trip with an ox team.
In 1843 she was converted and with her sister and two brothers was baptized by Rev. Thomas E. Babcock and became a member of the Persia, N. Y. Seventh-Day Baptist church, to which place her father had moved when she was a child. She became a constituent member of the Dakota Seventh-Day Baptist church and later her membership was transferred to the church of her faith at North Loup. During all the years of her church membership she was a consistent Christian, ever believing in the teaching of her church having faith in the denomination of which she was a part, always trusting her pastors and the leaders in the denomination - her trust in her Savior was abiding and was beautiful to see. She said but little about her religion - she did not need to, it showed in her every day life. She was never demonstrative but was an ardent lover of her home and family and to them she gave her best thots and care. She was a great reader, being deprived of early educational advantages, she sought thru reading and home study to supply her natural desire for an education. She was well read, reading each day the daily papers, books and magazines. Her Bible was her daily companion. Only those who knew her best knew of the wealth of good things there were in her mind, how progressive she was in her thots, how ready to accept new things and conditions.
She was thoroly loyal. During the Civil war she offered in defense of her country her husband, three sons and all her brothers. All returned to their homes except one brother. At the outbreak of the Spanish-American war she asked her youngest son if he wanted to enlist and when he replied in the affirmative she said: 'I feel that I have given my country all it ought to ask of me, but if you are needed to defend your flag and fail to meet that need I shall be ashamed of you.' She loved her country and home quietly but devotedly. Because of her diffidence she was unassuming and her real self was known only to those who knew her in her home. She was very firm, was very gentle. Her son, who always found a home with her, says he never heard her say an unkind word about any one, never heard her complain, never heard her gossip, never knew her to be cross or impatient. She was an ideal mother, and now she is gone, gone home to be with Him whom she loved and in whom she had so much trust.
Several weeks before her death she began failing in health, but the change was so gradual those who were with her could scarcely note the change. Death was due to old age - she was like a piece of delicate machinery which had worn out - she suffered no pain, had all her faculties till a short time before her death.
Funeral services were held at her home Saturday afternoon, April 24, conducted by her pastor, Rev. George B. Shaw, and she was laid to rest beside her husband, father and stepmother in the city of the dead
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