Title
Mr.
Last Name
Woodcock
First Name
Theodore
Middle Name
Maiden Name
Nick Name
Place of Birth
Date of Birth
1826-10-30
Place of Death
Ripley, ME
Date of Death
1915-06-25
Publication
The Eastern Gazette 07 11 1915, p. 1
Obituary
Again has the summons come and another of our Maine Solders has gone to join the ranks of the departed ones and the many friends of Theodore Woodcock regret to hear of his death which occurred at his old home in Ripley Friday, June 25. Mr. Woodcock had been in poor health for the past six months and lately suffered from an attack of grip which left him in a weakened condition and feeling as though the summons was coming for him to join the innumerable host he requested to be moved from is nephews, Will Bowermans in St. Albans where he has been living for the past two or three years, to his old home in Ripley, where he lived four days before his death. The funeral services were held at his home Sunday, June27, at 1p.m. Rev. Stanley Gates Spear as Dexter spoke the last comforting words and many gathered to tender their regards tone whom they had known for many years, a kind hearted neighbor and respected townsman. Mr. Woodcock would have been 89 ears old the 30th of October, and had lived all of his life with the exception of the time spent with his nephew in St. Albans, on the home place that his father cleared. He was the son of the late Deborah Resse Woodcock, and was twice married; his first wife was the late Deborah Blanchard Woodcock and to them was born one son, Newland, who lives in Ripley and has a store there. He married for his second wife, Ann Wing of St. Albans, who has tenderly cared for him through his declining years and was a kind and loving mother to his first son. To his second wife was born two sons, Will, who died several years ago leaving a wife and daughter, Agnes, both to whom Mr. Woodcock gave a fathers care, and Milton, who lives on the home place, and who has two children. He also leaves two brothers, Arthur of Clinton and George of Guilford, to mourn the loss of a father, father and brother. The bearers were William Stewart, Dan Wakefield, Dewitt Pratt and Henry Lumbard, all of whom were comrades in arms, and he was laid to rest in the Ripley cemetery. He was always proud of being a soldier ad soldier bearers were a tribute to him. Among those present from out of town were Linn Daggett of Northern Maine Junction, and Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Lewis of Newport.