Obituary

Death source (obituary): Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Sunday, May 13, 1900, page 15

ROCHESTER DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE. SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1900

MRS SOPHIA A. WOOD.

Death of an Old and Repetcted Resident of This City Yesterday.

Mrs. Sophia Adaline Wood, danghter of Seneca Wood and Sophia Adaline Burnham, died yesterday afternoon at the residence of Mrs. Ives, No. 37 South Washington street, aged 73 years. Her illness was of short duration, death being due to pneumonia.

Mrs. Wood was born In Auburn, N. Y. March 27, 1827. She passed her girlhood in Auburn and Aurora, at which places she resided till her marriage to the late John Hamilton Adams, then of Lyons, in the year 1847. Mr. and Mrs. Wood resided in Lyons until 1857, when they removed to Rochester. Mrs. Wood continued to live here until her death.

She was a woman of singular modesty and retiring disposition, but had a large circle of friends among the older residents of Rochester, to whom she was greatly endeared. She had two children, both of whom were sons. The younger died in infancy, but the elder, Walter Wood Adams, of New York, survives her.