Elizabeth Brett Berkey
b. May 1893, d. 26 July 1960
- Elizabeth Brett Berkey was born in May 1893 in Pennsylvania.
- The following appeared on 29 March 1905 in The Indiana County Gazette: Mrs. Elizabeth E. Berkey, 50 years old, wife of Thomas [sic] M. Berkey, died at her home in Bolivar on March 20. She was a member of the Hammond family. Mrs. Berkey leaves her husband and the following children: Leslie R., of Butler county; Rebecca, Dora M., John S., Jane E., Olive, Theodore M. and Elizabeth Brett Berkey, at home. She also leaves one sister, Mrs. Charles M. Johnson and two brothers, E. R. Hammond and Hon. James B. Hammond.
- She married William Maxwell Wood, son of William Alva Wood and Nina Lynn Jameson.
- William Maxwell Wood registered for the draft in 1942 in Lane County, Oregon, while living with his wife on Route 5 in Eugene, self-employed there as a farmer.
- Elizabeth Brett Berkey died on 26 July 1960 at age 67 in Lane County, Oregon.
- Her husband William Maxwell Wood became a widower at her death.
- She was interred at Lane Memorial Gardens, Eugene, Lane County, Oregon.
- Last Edited: 22 Sep 2014