Eunice Odell

Eunice Odell

• Father: Benjamin Odell b. circa 7 March 1790, d. 5 October 1861
• Mother: Sarah Bennett b. circa 6 September 1815, d. 8 January 1880

• Eunice Odell was born circa 1858 in New York.
• Benjamin Odell and Sarah Bennett appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Philipstown, Putnam County, New York, enumerated near the household of Sarah's son Jacob Griffin.. Other members of the household included Eunice Odell, Benjamin Odell Jr., Marcus Griffin, Sarah Frances Griffin and Ellen Odell.
• Sarah Bennett appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1870 in Philipstown, New York, enumerated next to the household of her son Jacob.. Other members of the household included Eunice Odell, Bennett A. Griffin, Marcus Griffin, Sarah Frances Griffin and Ellen Odell.
• She married Edwin Woolcock, son of Thomas Woolcock and Susanna Testick Rescorl, on 2 July 1877.
• The following appeared on 5 June 1897 in the Putnam County Republican: Mrs. Amy Wanless, wife of Richard Wanless, died at her home in Asbury Park, N. J., on Tuesday of last week, from apoplexy, after a brief illness. Mrs. Wanless was born in Philipstown, Putnam Co., in 1850, and after her first marriage to William Rolfe, resided in Peekskill until the death of her husband in 1885. In 1892 she was married to Mr. Wanless and went to reside in New Jersey. The deceased is survived by two children by her first husband, Charles Rolfe, a carpenter, who resides in Peekskill, and Mrs. Frred. Hyatt, of New Canaan, Conn., and her husband, three brothers, John, Marcus and Jacob N. Griffin of Putnam Valley, and also Mrs. Willian Woolcock, of Sterlington. Mrs. Wanless' father, two brothers, Willian Henry, George and Mrs. Elvin Chase, all died from the same complaint, apoplexy. The remains were brought to Peekskill on Thursday and the funeral services were held from the residence of Mr. Edward Woolcock on Depew St. Interment at.
• The following appeared on 7 March 1914 in The Highland Democrat: [Died] At West Burke, Vt., March 2 [sic], 1914, Mrs. Mary [sic] Odell Griffin, widow of Jacob N. Griffin, formerly of Putnam Valley, aged 83 yrs. 2 mos. and 2 days. Funeral from 161 Depew street, Peekskill on Thursday. Interment at Hillside.
• Eunice Odell became a widow at the 15 June 1925 death of her husband Edwin Woolcock.
• The following appeared on 19 April 1928 in The Chatham Courier: In the quiet hours of Monday morning, Edward [sic] Woolcock, age 54, Harlem Division terminal foreman, passed into his eternal sleep at his home in Chatham, a victim of pleurisy.
       Mr. Woolcock had been ill but one week with the sickness which proved his last. Up to that time he had enjoyed comparatively good health and had stuck to his engines at the local roundhouse.
       This mourned citizen was born in Peekskill on November 2, 1873 and grew up in that town. In the early years of his manhood he was a registered pharmacist and practiced his profession in Peekskill but was forced to abandon that work for something out of doors. The work that appealed to him most in this line was that of rail roading and he secured employment as a fireman on the Hudson Division of the New York Central where he soon became a freight engineman running between Albany and New York.
       Mr. Woolcock left that service after a number of years to become air brake inspector for the Boston and Albany Rail Road at Rensselaer. From there he transferred to the same line of work on the New York Central Company and was stationed at the Brewster engine house and later in the round house at North White Plains.
       Still another transfer to night foreman in the North White Plains engine house probably paved the way for his work in Chatham.
       In August 1917 the deceased came to Chatham as terminal foreman where he was employed at the time of his death.
       Edward [sic] Woolcock was a man true to his ideals and sincere in any undertaking. Almost with his dying breath he inquired for his locomotives with the care of which he had been seriously concerned for so long. He was a man who enjoyed the out of doors in sport as well as work and many of his friends recall fishing trips that they spent with him and bring to miind some that had been planned but will never materialize.
       Funeral service was held from the Reformed Church, Chatham, at one o'clock Wednesday afternoon, Dr. R. C. Wright officiating. The body was then taken by train to the home of Mrs. Eunice Woolcock, Peekskill, where a second service was held Thursday at two o'clock for his many friends in that section. Interment was made at Carmel with a Masonic service at the grave conducted by the Peekskill lodge, of which he was a member.
       The deceased is survived by his widow Mrs. Nellie Woolcock, who will make her home in Peekskill with Eunice Woolcock, Chas. Woolcock of Niagara Falls, Macgrane Woolcock of Staatsburg, N. Y., brothers, Mrs. Chas. Wright of Peekskill and Mrs. Chas Adams of Harmon, sisters. Chas. and Macgrane were summoned before the death of their brother and arrived in time to be with him at the end.
       Mr. Woolcock was a member of several Masonic bodies.
• Eunice Odell appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in Peekskill, Westchester County, New York, at 151 Depew Street.
• Eunice Odell died circa 1935 if her absence from the Peekskill City Directory is an indication.

• Last Edited: 3 Jan 2015