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- 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. [Vol. 79, No. 6, p. 191]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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