"The North Loup Loyalist", North Loup, Nebraska, Friday, Apr. 8, 1932, p 1. After a long period of invalidism, Mrs. Rosa Rood passed peacefully away about 9:15 Monday evening at the home in the village, her immortal spirit was freed from the tired body. While it had been known for more than a week that death was imminent, the end came suddenly, the last change being hardly discernable to the family gathered at her bedside. During her entire illness "Aunt Rosa" had been a marvel of patience, and the sense of humor which carried her through many a hard experience, was evidenced until the very end. All over the village, when news of her passing became known, the many persons to whom Mrs. Rood had ministered in her active days, were recounting her deeds of mercy and kindness - memories which will live on. While the pioneer husband, Chas. J. Rood, and the daughters and sons, have the sympathy of the community, it is realized that they are comforted by the assurance that their loved one has at last found peace. A brief service with music by a quartette, prayer by Rev. C. L. Hill and scripture reading by Pastor Warren was held at the home preceding the services at the church, Wednesday afternoon at 2:30. Pastor Warren gave a comforting message, from a favorite Bible passage of the deceased, "Let not your heart be troubled." A quartette composed of Mrs. Esther Babcock, Mrs. Ava Johnson, A. D. Moulton and C. L. Hill, sang several selections with Mrs. Warren at the piano. Pallbearers were relatives of the family: H. H. and G. W. Thorngate, Roy Lewis, Ed Hurley, Bert Sayre and Henry Williams. The body was laid to rest in the North Loup cemetery. Rosa Pauline Furrow, daughter of John and Esther Babcock Furrow, was born near Peoria, Illinois, August 1, 1856, and passed away at her home in North Loup, Nebraska, April 4, 1932. Her own mother died when Rosa was a baby, leaving four children. Her father married twice afterwards, and she had five half-sisters and two half-brothers. One half-brother, Darwin Furrow of Orofino, Idaho, and two half-sisters, Mrs. John Daland of Milton, Wisconsin, and Mrs. Daisy Furrow Allen, of Greeley, Colorado are still living. When she was about a year old her father moved his family to Welton, Iowa, where she grew up and joined the church under the leadership of Elder Varnum Hull. At the age of fifteen her family moved to Long Branch, Nebraska, and in the fall of 1872 they came to North Loup. She was one of the constituent members of the North Loup Seventh Day Baptist Church, of whom only two remain in North Loup, C. J. Rood, and Mrs. Mary R. Davis. Rosa, with the others, endured and enjoyed the hardships of pioneer life. During the "April Blizzard" their dugout was entirely covered with snow. At another time her father was delayed on a trip to Grand Island for supplies and the family was forced to live on parched corn four days. On October 30, 1875, she was married to Charles J. Rood. To this union were born ten children, Mrs. Henry Williams Byron, of Milton, Wisconsin, Mrs. L. L. Lewis, Mrs. Martin Nelson of Walworth, Wisconsin, Mrs. Hugh Whitford, Marcia, Carrie, Bayard, of Milton, Elsie and Eunice. Mr. and Mrs. started housekeeping near the school where Mr. Rood was teaching, in what is now Ord. Then they homesteaded west of North Loup. The present North Loup cemetery was given to the church by Mr. Rood. While the children were growing up the family lived on a timber claim at Pleasant Hill. Later they moved to North Loup. Mrs. Rood was a natural story-teller, and would supply any type of story her children wished. She also sang songs from memory to her little folks. She loved fun and more than "held her own" with her children. She was a member of the Woman's Missionary Society, sang in the Choir and helped in the Sabbath School for many years. She was an invalid for ten years and almost helpless for about a year. She has been patient and cheerful in her suffering, while she was tenderly cared for by her daughters. Through all her life she was led by the "still, small voice." Her passing is the third in the Charles J, Rood family, an eight-year-old granddaughter, Julia Nelson being called in 1923, and a son-in-law, Hugh Whitford, in the fall of 1931. She leaves her husband, ten children, nine grandchildren, and one great-grandchild, besides many other relatives and a host of friends to hold her in sacred memory. "The Ord Quiz", Ord, Nebraska, Thursday, Dec. 16, 1943. North Loup - The passing of Charles J. Rood has severed the last link with much of the early history of North Loup and Valley county. With the possible exception of a few small children, he was the last of that group who held the first church service in the valley; he was the last charter member of the Seventh Day Baptist church of North Loup; the last of the early school teachers; the last of his father's and mother's family of nine children. Born in Dakota, Wis., July 4, 1851, he died at North Loup, December 13, 1943, at the age of 92 years, 5 months and 9 days. He was too young to enter the Civil War where his father and three older brothers were serving, so he was the mainstay of his mother in the home-work. At the age of 19, he came with the Dakota, Wis., group to what is now North Loup, and acted as chorister at that first church service. As soon as he could, legally, he took a homestead, one mile west of the present town. The original part of the cemetery is on one corner, on land donated by him to the church for that purpose. For a number of years he was sexton of the cemetery, knew every grave and took as much care of it as though it still belonged to him. Like the rest of the colony he brought his church membership and helped organize the new church in March 1873. Besides being sexton he was elected one of the trustees several times. He was the second teacher in District No. 1. As one old pupil said, "He was a natural born teacher and we learned whether we wanted to or not." On October 30, 1875, he was married to Miss Rosa Furrow, who had come with her father in 1872. In 1925 a family of ten children helped them celebrate their golden wedding anniversary. Like other pioneers, they had gone through fire and blood, grasshoppers and drowth, sickness and accident, but though two serious accidents left him partly crippled, death had spared them. His wife was the first to go, April 4, 1932, and his daughter Carrie, October 1937. Until age impaired his memory he was one of the first to be consulted in regard to early times and loved nothing better than to tell stories of the old settlers and old times. After the death of his wife he was cared for by different members of his family, the last 3 1-2 years being in the home of a son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Lewis; but for over seventy-one years he spent but a few months away from North Loup and vicinity. He leaves to mourn his passing, nine of his ten children, Mrs. Bertha Williams, North Loup; Byron Rood, Milton, Wis.; Mrs. Esther Nelson, Sharon, Wis.; Mrs. Nina Lewis, North Loup; Mrs. Marianne Whitford, North Loup; Miss Marcia Rood, North Loop; Bayard Rood, Boulder, Colo.; Miss Elsie Rood, Milton, Wis.; Mrs. Eunice Harman, Hollinger, Nebr.; 10 grand children and 14 great grandchildren with many other relatives and friends. Funeral services for Mr. Rood were held Tuesday afternoon from the Seventh Day Baptist church with Rev. A. C. Ehret in charge. The body was at the church in state, from 1:00 to 2:00 o'clock. Pall bearers were close relatives. The same songs that were sung at Mrs. Rood's funeral in 1932 were sung. They were "Shall We Gather at the River," "We are Going Down the Valley" and "Sweet Peace". Singers were Mrs. Edward Christiansen, Mrs. Erlo Babcock, W. T. Hutchins and A. M. Stillman. Burial was in the Hillside cemetery which he cared for so many years, beside his wife. They Came to Milton http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=jonsaunders