This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: t42MountOlivet Surnames: ATWOOD Classification: cemetery Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.atwood/1289/mb.ashx Message Board Post: ATWOOD Vetta Elaine 1909-1997 I photographed this gravestone in the Mount Olivet Cemetery, Fort Worth, Tarrant Co., Texas. Feel free to use this picture for your personal records. This is one of the 212,855 cemetery photos free at http://teafor2.com If you know more about this person please reply here instead of contacting me because this is most likely not my family. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

*Ann W. Atwood Swan Funeral Home <www.swanfh.com> 16 Feb 2010 Ann Walton Atwood, 72, of Westbrook, passed away on February 11, 2010 at Middlesex Hospital Hospice after a courageous battle with cancer. The daughter of the late Truman Walton and Rebecca Somonsky, Ann was born on April 20, 1937 in Middletown. Besides her parents she was also predeceased by her step father Joseph Somonsky. A graduate from Morgan High School, Ann is a longtime shoreline resident. She spent most of her life being a caretaker, and also a volunteer at the Clinton Estuary Council and the local food bank. She was a member of Clinton United Methodist Church, and the Elks Club in Westbrook. Ann leaves behind her two sons, Eric Gustafson of Wellfleet, MA and Garth Gustafson of Old Lyme, CT. Also her brother Richard Walton and her sister Barbara Murphy. Family and friends may join for a graveside service on Monday, February 15, 2010 at 12noon in Indian River Cemetery in Clinton. All are welcome to join a Celebration of Ann's Life at Water's Edge in Westbrook, following the graveside service. Swan Funeral Home has charge of arrangements. For online tributes and condolences visit www.swanfh.com. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Middlesex Hospital Hospice, 28 Crescent St. Middletown, CT 06457. *

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: t42MountOlivet Surnames: ATWOOD Classification: cemetery Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.atwood/1288/mb.ashx Message Board Post: ATWOOD Wilmerth Rhea Bud 1906-1994 I photographed this gravestone in the Mount Olivet Cemetery, Fort Worth, Tarrant Co., Texas. Feel free to use this picture for your personal records. This is one of the 212,855 cemetery photos free at http://teafor2.com If you know more about this person please reply here instead of contacting me because this is most likely not my family. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: remixqueen1 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.atwood/1285.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Thank you for this information... Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: bpotts Surnames: Atwood Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.atwood/1285.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I don't have the information for you, but you might try... Jim Warren at The Lexington Herald. He wrote an extensive article on Dr Atwood in 2007. In the article he gives the following: 1-859-231-3255 1-800-950-6397, Ext. 3255 jwarren@herald-leader.com If you find out, I would love to have that information also. brad.potts@mindspring.com Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: remixqueen1 Surnames: Atwood/Campbell Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.atwood/1285/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I am searching for the burial site for Dr. Rufus B. Atwood. Born in Hickman, KY. March 15, 1897 died in Cincinnati, Ohio March 18, 1983.; and his wife, Mable C. Atwood, b: Sept 14, 1897 in Virginia and died in Cincy, Ohio, March 5, 1990. He served as president of Kentucky State College, Frankfort, KY (now Kentucky State University) He was president when I attended there. Thanks for any help. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Cindy_Beane Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.atwood/1284.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I'm not sure as I got it undated. It was in a column that a guy named Jim Burns used to do and he would tell what was happening in town ten years earlier, 25 years earlier, etc. So that's how I knew it was 1879. If you call the Rockland Historical Society (207-594-6193), just ask if someone could look this up in the "Candage Records" books and give you the date of the paper. Or if you had a lot of people in this area in the earlier 1800s, Picton Press in Rockland sells a CD of all the Candage records. M/M Candage went back through all the old Rockland newspapers (going back to 1840's) and listed every birth, marriage and death that was included in those papers. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: BPearson8915 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.atwood/1284.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: What was the date of the Rockland, Maine Courier-Gazette paper? Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

*The Republican <www.masslive.com> 13 Feb 2010 Dorothy (Allen) Atwood (1919-2010) SPRINGFIELD - Dorothy M. (Allen) Atwood, 90 a lifelong resident of Spring-field, passed away on Wednes-day, February 10, 2010, at Mercy Medical Center, surrounded by her loving family. She was born in Springfield on December 20, 1919 a daughter of the late Benjamin and Mary (Hodges) Allen. Dorothy was a graduate of Classical High School. She was employed by Baystate Medical Center and she retired after twenty-five years of service. In addition to her parents, she was also predeceased by her husband Leslie E. Atwood, Sr., son-in-law, Robert Esposito, and four brothers. She is survived by her two devoted children, Leslie E. Atwood Jr., of Chicopee, Judith E. Esposito of Springfield, and five adored grandchildren; Robin, Terri, David, Leslie III, and Michael. She also leaves nine great-grandchildren, and three great-great-grandchildren. Family and friends are invited to a Funeral Home Service at 10A.M. on Tuesday, February 16, 2010 at the BYRON KEENAN FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATION TRIBUTE CENTER, 1858 ALLEN STREET, SPRINGFIELD, MA. Burial will follow in Oak Grove Cemetery, 426 Bay Street, Springfield. Calling hours will be held on Monday, February 15, 2010 from 4P.M. - 7P.M. at the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made in her memory to the National Kidney Foundation 85 Astor Avenue, Suite 2, Norwood, MA 02062-5040. *

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Cindy_Beane Surnames: Atwood Classification: death Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.atwood/1284/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I have no connection to this family but am just posting things I've come across while doing other research. This is from the Rockland, Maine Courier-Gazette: "Died: At Dix Island, May 4th, John O., son of Capt. Benj. Atwood, of Winterport, aged 22 years, 7 months, 14 days. (1879): Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

I am trying to find a Matilda Atwood with a Daughter named Matilda Atwood ( Burnett). Matilda was born in 1801. She died in NY. on 1-25-1916 at the age of 115. She appeared in 1880 census under the name of Brenette. I have a letter from the Genealogical Record Office dated 7-5-1916 wanting to know if My grandmother could tell them anything about her grandmother's longevity. In that letter she was listed as 107 years old. Daughter Matilda was born between 1826 and 1845 supposedly in Canada. Matilda married Antoine Burnett also born in Canada. Their 1st child (John) was born in 1858 in canada (french). The only mother/daughter duo I can find is; Matilda Atwood born about 1818 married to Henry Atwood in VT. Matilda Atwood their daughter was born in 1840. Any help would be appreciated, Fred

The Rutland Herald <www.rutlandherald.com> 6 Feb 2010 Robert J. Atwood BRANDON - Robert John Atwood, age 81, died Thursday, February 4, 2010 at Rutland Regional Medical Center. Mr. Atwood was born in Saxtons River on January 11, 1929. He was the son of N. Harvey and Ruth (Lawrence) Atwood. In his earlier years he had work farming. He afterwards worked in the custodial department at Brattleboro Retreat. He later moved to Bomoseen and worked for Valerie Poremski at Edgewater Inn on Lake Bomoseen. He has been a resident of Brandon since 2003. He enjoyed rug making, story telling, old time music and traveling and just being part of the family. Surviving are his care providers Cim and Greg Clark, of Brandon with whom he has made his home and their children; Sam, Tiff and Cameron and his extended family Theda (Grammy) Rouse and Sanford (Pop) Rouse, his aunt Elva Rice of Saxtons River and several cousins. He was predeceased by his brother Richard Atwood and a sister Shirley Atwood. The funeral service will be held on Tuesday, February 9, 2010, at 12 noon at the Miller & Ketcham Funeral Home in Brandon. The Rev. Richard White, pastor of the Brandon Congregational Church will officiate. A private graveside committal service and burial will take place, at a later date, in the family lot, at Saxtons River Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home on Tuesday, from 11 AM until service time at 12. Memorial gifts in lieu of flowers may be made, in his memory to The Brandon Area Rescue Squad, P.O. Box 232, Brandon, VT 05733 or the Rutland County Humane Society, 765 Stevens Rd, Pittsford, VT 05763

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: tratwood1 Surnames: Atwood Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.atwood/1218.3.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Gloria; Many thanks for the photo, I know I will appreciate it being added to my database for everyone to see. Do you by some chance know who is who? If not it's ok, many thanks for adding it, none the less. Ted Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: deenaraeaw2004 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.atwood/1283/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Any Atwoods in Canada Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: tratwood1 Surnames: Atwood Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.atwood/1218.2.1.1.2.2.2.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: just visit my website and click on the genealogy page. It will open the database for viewing if you log in as a guest; or if you have Atwood lineage you want to share, you can join (free) and add your own, or forward it to me and I will add it. I hope to eventually have all the data so the genealogy newbies will have less problems tracking their family, but for now, we do have quite a bit of them listed and the tree is looking fairly good, and everything is clickable from person to person. http://www.absproducts.com/~t.atwood/ Ted Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: gdean501 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.atwood/1218.3/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Gilbert Atwood, Sr. (1651 - bef. April 27, 1715) married to Jane Lancelot (born 1651) Gilbert Atwood, Jr. (1675 - 1745) married to unknown John Atwood (1702 - 1750) married to Martha (born 1725) Gilbert Atwood (1730 - 1818) married to Nancy Ann Young (born 1735) Sinnett Harry Atwood, Sr. (1756 - Nov. 16, 1825) married to Letitia Wood (abt. 1763 - abt. 1835) Sinnett Harry Atwood, Jr. (April 19, 1793 - July 2, 1861) married to Margaret Miller (Sept 1, 1803 - April 1, 1891) John William Atwood, Sr. (April 4, 1836 - Feb 24, 1901) married to Mary Virginia Cullers (May 16, 1855 - June 26, 1883) John William Atwood, Jr. (Jan 16, 1881 - May 23, 1936) married to Bertie Melvina Huffman (April 25, 1886 - Oct. 22, 1980) attaching John & Bertie Atwood Family 1955 of Luray VA picture Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: osby2003 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.atwood/1218.2.1.1.2.2.2.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi Ted, Thank you so much for replying to my message. I would like to be able to see the information you have, but I do not have a membership for Ancestry.com. Is there another source I can use to access this information? Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: tratwood1 Surnames: Atwood Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.atwood/1218.2.1.1.2.2.2.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I have lots of information on this line as I also have a copy of the book that shows the family bible and the lineage leading up to Permelia Ridgeway and Nehemiah and ultimately what was to become 'Bob Evan's Farm'. Just visit my website (see my profile) and hit my genealogy database and do a search for Permelia or Nehemiah. Will be glad to help you any way I can... Ted Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

My name is Keith Carlson Atwood and my wife is Cheryl Lee Myers Atwood. We have 3 children Shane Carlson Atwood, Melissa Jean Atwood Rivera and Cory Wayne Atwood. I was born in North Carolina but now live in Orem Utah. I'm glad to be a part of this mailing list and of course proud to be Atwood and look forward to any contact and information regarding the Atwood name. Thanks Keith Atwood

*Capt. Atwood saved ship from deadly fire and ice By Wayne Reilly Special to the Bangor Daily NEWS <www.bangordailynews.com/detail/135901.html > Capt. Horace Atwood Fire or ice? The conundrum posed by a famous poet failed to puzzle Capt. Horace Atwood in 1872. As his smoldering ship sped across the Indian Ocean, fire and ice were a deadly combination, conspiring to destroy the vessel and kill him and his crew. When the Hampden sea captain died a century ago at the age of 81, nearly four decades after his adventure, the Bangor Daily News took the opportunity to reprint the dramatic story of his valiant struggle aboard the doomed ship Montana, sailing with a shipload of ice from Boston to Rangoon. Atwood “was one of the last of the old time deep sea ship masters of Maine and had commanded big and fine ships in many trades and all waters of the globe,” said his death notice on Jan. 19, 1910. The next day a much longer piece based on a long-ago interview with him about his Indian Ocean adventure took up most of page 10. The author was the paper’s city editor and well-known writer, Lawrence T. Smyth. “Those who had to do with the East India ice trade know how quickly an ice ship may be transformed from a floating refrigerator into a floating furnace,” Smyth began. The problem was “dunnage” — the sawdust, shavings or hay in which the ice was packed for insulation. All it took was a spark from a stevedore’s pipe when the ice was being stowed. That spark might live “spitefully, treacherously for days and weeks, even months, all the time growing, until a fiery canker, eating through the tinder-stuffed crevices between the ice cakes bursts forth in a fever of flame, fed by gases from the melting ice.” The Tudor Ice Co. of Boston, Atwood’s employer, shipped great quantities of ice to the East Indies. The Montana, a “fine, new 1,400-ton, Newburyport-built half-clipper,” sailed for Rangoon with all the ice she could hold and a crew of 26. They were past the Cape of Good Hope, well into the Indian Ocean, when the crisis began to unfold. A crew member opened the hatch to the fore peak (the section of the hold made by the angle of the ship’s bow), and out came a puff of smoke. Capt. Atwood was down below. When he heard the cry, “Fire,” he bounded out of the companionway in one jump. He saw a little cloud of smoke, “nasty smelling, like bilge water.” The second mate yelled, “Clap on that hatch — quick with it — or —.” Atwood and the mate knew instantly they had “a hot ship” under them. No point in feeding the fire with fresh air. They determined that the nearest land was St. Paul Island, a volcanic rock 1,000 miles away. With “a fair wind and everything on her,” it might take eight or 10 days to get there. They were outside the usual shipping lanes, so they couldn’t expect help from a passing vessel. “Clap on every rag she owns ... Give it to her, Mr. Crosby,” said Capt. Atwood to his first mate. The ship’s carpenter brought up an armful of augers, and the crew drilled holes through the pine planks of the deck. Then the watch was set to work with buckets, scooping water from the sea and pouring it down the holes. After every bucketful came out a puff of yellowish steam with a sickly smell. This was an exercise in futility, of course. “Might as well pump into hell so far’s stopping that fire is concerned,” Atwood said to his mates in private. They knew the fire would burn the ship out from under them. But if she could sail for at least eight days, they might be able to make the land. On the third day there were “ominous mutterings” forward. A group of mutineers demanded to lower the boats and escape. Capt. Atwood ordered them back to work. “The man who makes a move to cut away a boat will get a bullet for his pains,” the captain threatened. He also said, “Any man who left here in a boat would go to certain death — there is no chance of being picked up within a thousand miles of here. The only chance is to stay by her, and stay by her we will.” The mutiny ended. As the days passed, the fire became hotter. The fore peak hatch was removed and a hose with a powerful pump forced more water into the hold. The yellow steam turned to copper-colored smoke. The soles of the men’s shoes were growing warm. The decks were baking, and pitch was beginning to show in little bubbles here and there. The oakum was loose and dry in the widening seams. Sudden belchings of smoke and steam at times drove all hands into the rigging. On the fifth day the attempt to slow the blaze with water was abandoned. The holes in the deck were plugged, and the hatches newly calked. But the belchings of the volcano came through the seams “as through the meshes of a sieve.” All hands now stayed on deck, part of the time in the rigging avoiding the heat and smoke. On the eighth day, they began to fill the boats with supplies. Then, as the captain had predicted, came the cry: “Land ho-oho!” They landed on St. Paul Island, which is “nothing more than the crater of a volcano rising a few feet above the Indian Ocean.” The men got the boats to the beach. Then, “with a roar like a tornado, the fire came through the Montana’s decks and, soaring aloft in a red and black torrent ate up her sails and rigging like chaff. Soon the masts went by the board, and before night there was nothing left of the ship but her hull under water, and a blackened heap of ice in its depths.” On their sixth night on the island, the men were rescued by a British ship for Rangoon that had run off course. After returning home, Capt. Atwood “bade farewell to the sea,” according to Smyth, but that wasn’t the end of his nautical career by any means. In the early 1880s, the captain sailed around the world with his daughter Harriet. She wrote a book about it later [Around the World in 500 days], under the name [Hattie] Harriet Atwood Freeman. It was republished in 1999 by Mystic Seaport. He had many other voyages with his wife. His two oldest daughters were born at sea. Atwood retired in 1885 to his farm in Hampden next to the old Hampden Academy building. His property included a good deal of land going down to the Penobscot River, including a scenic spot known as Squaw Point. He laid out paths, made rustic seats and bridges and built a pavilion, turning it into a park of sorts. He brought picnic parties from Bangor in a little excursion steamboat, according to a story about him in the Bangor Daily Commercial on Aug. 20, 1920. Later he was named a state steamboat inspector. Capt. Atwood, however, would always be remembered for his fiery run across the Indian Ocean on the ice ship Montana, when he learned firsthand the connection between fire and ice. Thanks to the Hampden Historical Society for information about Capt. Atwood’s later life. Comments about this column may be sent to Wayne E. Reilly at wer@bangordailynews.net*