This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Roper, Stewart, Philo Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kgDBAEB/726 Message Board Post: The following is a transcription of the obituary of Jeanette Stewart ROPER (b Oct 1840 - Wood, OH, d 07 Mar 1923 - Scotch Ridge, Wood County, OH) appearing in the Wood County Daily Sentinel Tribune on Thursday, 08 Mar 1923: "RELAPSE TAKES MRS. ROPER, 82" "SCOTCH RIDGE, March 8. -- Mrs. Jeanette Stewart ROPER, aged 82 years, a lifelong resident of Webster township, died at her home here on Wednesday afternoon at 2:30. Her death was due to pneumonia which developed about one week ago when she suffered a relapse from the flu. The deceased was first married to William PHILO at the outbreak of the Civil War. Mr. PHILO was killed on his way to the war in the historical railroad accident on the old C.H. & D. R. R. between Perrysburg and Toledo, in which a number of servicemen were killed. One son was born to the first union and died in infancy. In 1866 she married a second time to Thomas B. ROPER, who survives the wife. Mrs. ROPER was a member of the U. P. church here and held as one of the finest Christian women in this community as well as an excellent neighbor and friend. She leaves to sorrow for her passing a devoted husband and five children: Walter T., of Toledo; Margaret, at home; Robert J., of Toledo; Roswell D., of Arizona; Hugh, of west of Maumee, and Allen, at home. One son, Andrew, died in the Phillipines during the Spanish-American war, and another son, Stewart, died in the Canal zone in the government service about one year ago. Funeral services will be held from the United Presbyterian church here Saturday morning at ten o'clock. Rev. H. P. Snodgrass will have charge. Burial will be made in the Scotch Ridge cemetery." * Thanks are due to the Wood County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society, which kindly furnished me with a copy of the obituary transcribed above. The Wood County Chapter may be contacted at: Wood County Chapter The Ohio Genealogical Society P.O. Box 722 Bowling Green, Ohio 43402-0722 * * * NOTE 1: The date of birth shown in the Subject -- Oct 1840 -- is taken from the 1900 Census record for Jeanette ROPER. Jeanette Stewart ROPER was born in Ohio to parents each born in Scotland. NOTE 2: Jeanette Stewart ROPER's Ohio death certificate shows death year 1923, and is recorded from Wood County, Ohio, at Volume 4134 / Certificate 23045. I have NOT yet seen this death certificate. NOTE 3: The Obituary of Thomas B. ROPER (b 26 Mar 1842 - Lincolnshire, England, d 27 Mar 1923 - Scotch Ridge, Wood County, OH) is Posted at http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=message&r=rw&p=surnames.roper&m=725 .