 1872 - 1938 (66 years)
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| Name |
Robert Anderson Woods [1, 2, 3, 4] |
| Born |
22 Jan 1872 |
Allegheny, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania  [5] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Occupation |
Wholesale Coal Dealer, Salesman |
| Died |
25 May 1938 |
California Hospital, Los Angeles, California [5] |
| Buried |
28 May 1938 |
Inglewood Cem., Inglewood, California [5, 6] |
| Person ID |
I1646 |
Don Worth's Ancestry |
| Last Modified |
30 May 2019 |
| Father |
Stephen H. Woods, Jr., b. 3 Feb 1830, Washington, Pennsylvania (160 Robinson St.) , d. 2 Jul 1880, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Age 50 years) |
| Mother |
Martha Simpson Anshutz, b. 26 Nov 1835, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania , d. 11 May 1887, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Age 51 years) |
| Married |
8 Jan 1855 |
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania [7] |
| Family ID |
F209 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 1 |
Katherine Ethelyn "Kate" Whitney, b. 17 Nov 1871, Mineral Ridge, Ohio , d. 14 Mar 1932, Los Angeles, California (Age 60 years) |
| Married |
8 Oct 1890 |
Moselle, Missouri [1] |
| Divorced |
Abt 1907 [2] |
| Children |
| + | 1. Donovan Whitney Woods, b. 17 Jan 1893, Pasadena, California , d. 15 May 1979, Santa Barbara, California (Age 86 years) |
| + | 2. Robert Edgar Woods, b. 2 Dec 1893, Los Angeles, California , d. 27 May 1972, Dana Point, California (Naval Hospital) (Age 78 years) |
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| Last Modified |
18 Jul 2008 |
| Family ID |
F194 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Robert and Kate met in Mineral Ridge, Ohio. She was studying music (she played the piano). They eloped when Robert was 18 and Kate was 19.
Robert's parents lived in Pittsburg but he was a traveling salesman for the Couples Woodenware Co. He had a territory of the Western U.S. and Mexico. At the time of his marriage to Kate he was living in San Antonio, Texas. Throughout the early years of his marriage to Kate they lived in Los Angeles, then they moved to Cleveland, Pittsburg, Chicago, and other places.
To quote Norma Woods, "Robert and Kate had nothing in common but physical attraction." He would be with the family for a year and then disappear for a year. They were separated, on and off, for years and Kate was left to support their sons by herself before their eventual divorce. During these times she would move in with her father in Ohio.
When Barbara Woods was a little girl, she remembers her grandfather, Robert and his wife Harriet coming out from Cleveland every winter in a cadallac. She visited them in the summers at a place by Lake Erie. He would take her to his office where she played with his check writing machine and she went with him to his club for lunch. She remembers he had a pool table in his house.
Robert was quite wealthy at one time but was rather poor when he died.
RESEARCH NOTES: Ralph Hix gives Robert's death date as 25 May, 1938. Age 66 at death. At one point he lists his birth year as 1871.
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| Sources |
- [S102] Marriage License for Robert and Kate (Whitney) Woods. (EF#192, SN#353, 10 Apr 1978).
- [S2] Interview with Donovan and Norma Woods. (EF#14, SN#16, 30 Jan 1977).
- [S19] Interview with Walter D. and Barbara (Woods) Worth. (EF#6, SN#6, 1 Jan 1977).
- [S30] Genealogical records of Ralph Hix concerning Woods, Hoover, Campbells, Anshutz, and other related families. (EF#58, SN#66, 26 Mar 1977).
- [S88] Death Certificate of Robert A. Woods. (EF#106, SN#162, 9 Jun 1977).
- [S45] Visit to Inglewood Cemetery. Graves of Robert Anderson Woods and Harriet Woods. (EF#69, SN#81, 17 Apr 1977).
- [S34] Correspondence with Jeanne (Woods) Struve. (EF#15, SN#41, 20 Feb 1977).
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