Anna Maria Seegmiller

1853 - 1929  (75 years)

• Name	Anna Maria Seegmiller
  Born	20 Jun 1853	Petersburg, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Interesting	story, pioneer
  Name	Anna Maria Wood
  Residence	1861	Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [2]
  	Lutheran
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-73871
  Died	4 Feb 1929	Kingsley, Grand Traverse, Michigan, United States   [1]
  Buried	Kingsley, Grand Traverse, Michigan, United States
  Person ID	I73871	Generations
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2025

  
  

  Father	Frederick Seegmiller,   b. CALC 17 Oct 1795, , Germany ,   d. 17 Feb 1867, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age ~ 71 years)
  Mother	Catherine Morscher,   b. 6 Sep 1821, , Germany ,   d. 16 Sep 1904  (Age 83 years)
  Married	29 Dec 1845	, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [3]
  Family ID	F20093	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	John Wood,   b. 6 Mar 1852, , Cavan Co, Ireland ,   d. 3 Jan 1918, Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, United States  (Age 65 years)
  Married	31 Dec 1871  [4]
  Last Modified	4 Mar 2025
  Family ID	F19447	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Loved mother gone to her last reward. Monday, February 4th, marked the passing of Mrs. Anna Wood, an early settler of the Grand Traverse region. Anna Seegmiller Wood was born June 20, 1853, in Petersburg, Waterloo County, Canada, a daughter of Fred and Katherine Seegmiller one of a family of seven. She is survived by her brother George, living in her childhood home. On December 31st, 1872, she was married to John Wood also of Canada. Twelve children came to this home, one died in infancy, two in early youth and nine survive. They are: Alex Wood of Detroit; Charles, John, Wellington, Mrs. R. A. Wilson, Mrs Frank Clark of Kingsley and Mrs Frank Hennrick and Mrs Myron Cunningham of Traverse City and Mrs O. M. Tompkings(sp) of Old Mission, Mich. There are nineteen grandchildren. The family came to Michigan in 1892 and took up a farm southeast of Kingsley where Mrs. Wood resided until the death of her husband, John Wood, Sr., January 2, 1918. Since that time her home has been with her children and four years of residence in Old Mission made for her many friends who will always remember her kind, undemonstrative manner in doing for those she loved. Death came quietly after a month's illness at her home on the farm of R. A. Wilson, four miles east and a mile south of Kingsley, watched over by the sons and daughters for whom she had lived her life. In early childhood, Mrs. Wood was confirmed in the Lutheran church of her people and throughout life adhered to this faith. For many years she was affiliated with the Summit City Grange and held the office of chaplain of this organization. Mrs. Wood was a woman of sterling character, gentle and home loving. She had often been heard to remark: "If it is God's Will then we must abide by it." And now may we say of her in passing, "She hath done what she could." Traverse City Record Eagle Feb 1919

  
  

• Sources

  [S1213] News - MI, Grand Traverse, Traverse City - Traverse City Record Eagle, Obituary of Anna Maria Seegmiller - Feb 1929. [S844] Census - ON, Waterloo, Wilmot - 1861, Sect. 13 Page 82. [S13] Vit - - ON, Waterloo - Wellington District Marriage Register Part 1 1840-1852, Rev'd Jacob Huttner, Lutheran Minister, Preston report 53. Frederick Seigmiller, married to Catharina Morscher, both of Wilmot. 29 Dec. 1845 [S1213] News - MI, Grand Traverse, Traverse City - Traverse City Record Eagle, Obituary of John Wood - 4 Jan 1918.

  
  

• Event Map

  Residence - Lutheran - 1861 - Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Died - 4 Feb 1929 - Kingsley, Grand Traverse, Michigan, United States Buried - - Kingsley, Grand Traverse, Michigan, United States  = Link to Google Earth