Son of Joseph Finley and Margaret Jane (Overstreet) Woods, married Huldah Eliza Miller, November 07, 1886, Gunnison, Colorado. Occupation: Railroad brakeman.
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One day, on coming home from school for lunch, I found my brother there, but my mother was not home. On asking where she was he said she was in town, that she had received a telegram and that my father was dead. Then I remembered a dream I had the night before, so when she came home I told her. This is how it was.
"I saw my father wearing a long black overcoat and a black felt hat, standing beside a railroad switch, which had been turned to put the freight train on a siding to let the passenger train go by. Then he reset the switch and started walking toward the caboose. The train was moving very slowly. He swung up onto the steps of the caboose, went through the caboose and climbed up to the top of a box car, and started walking toward the engine, (as a new man has to work that part of the train). It was in December and cold and icy, and before he had gone far, he slipped and fell from the train, and as he fell he said, 'Oh God, my wife and children!'"
When Mother came home I told her all that I had seen in my dream, she told her brother, and when the men who came with the body, which they brought to Gunnison for burial, were told they said everything checks but what he said, and that nobody knows.
Written by Chloe Margaret (Woods) Underwood, daughter of J.T. Woods.
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One day, on coming home from school for lunch, I found my brother there, but my mother was not home. On asking where she was he said she was in town, that she had received a telegram and that my father was dead. Then I remembered a dream I had the night before, so when she came home I told her. This is how it was.
"I saw my father wearing a long black overcoat and a black felt hat, standing beside a railroad switch, which had been turned to put the freight train on a siding to let the passenger train go by. Then he reset the switch and started walking toward the caboose. The train was moving very slowly. He swung up onto the steps of the caboose, went through the caboose and climbed up to the top of a box car, and started walking toward the engine, (as a new man has to work that part of the train). It was in December and cold and icy, and before he had gone far, he slipped and fell from the train, and as he fell he said, 'Oh God, my wife and children!'"
When Mother came home I told her all that I had seen in my dream, she told her brother, and when the men who came with the body, which they brought to Gunnison for burial, were told they said everything checks but what he said, and that nobody knows.
Written by Chloe Margaret (Woods) Underwood, daughter of J.T. Woods.
Son of Joseph Finley and Margaret Jane (Overstreet) Woods, married Huldah Eliza Miller, November 07, 1886, Gunnison, Colorado. Occupation: Railroad brakeman.
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One day, on coming home from school for lunch, I found my brother there, but my mother was not home. On asking where she was he said she was in town, that she had received a telegram and that my father was dead. Then I remembered a dream I had the night before, so when she came home I told her. This is how it was.
"I saw my father wearing a long black overcoat and a black felt hat, standing beside a railroad switch, which had been turned to put the freight train on a siding to let the passenger train go by. Then he reset the switch and started walking toward the caboose. The train was moving very slowly. He swung up onto the steps of the caboose, went through the caboose and climbed up to the top of a box car, and started walking toward the engine, (as a new man has to work that part of the train). It was in December and cold and icy, and before he had gone far, he slipped and fell from the train, and as he fell he said, 'Oh God, my wife and children!'"
When Mother came home I told her all that I had seen in my dream, she told her brother, and when the men who came with the body, which they brought to Gunnison for burial, were told they said everything checks but what he said, and that nobody knows.
Written by Chloe Margaret (Woods) Underwood, daughter of J.T. Woods.
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One day, on coming home from school for lunch, I found my brother there, but my mother was not home. On asking where she was he said she was in town, that she had received a telegram and that my father was dead. Then I remembered a dream I had the night before, so when she came home I told her. This is how it was.
"I saw my father wearing a long black overcoat and a black felt hat, standing beside a railroad switch, which had been turned to put the freight train on a siding to let the passenger train go by. Then he reset the switch and started walking toward the caboose. The train was moving very slowly. He swung up onto the steps of the caboose, went through the caboose and climbed up to the top of a box car, and started walking toward the engine, (as a new man has to work that part of the train). It was in December and cold and icy, and before he had gone far, he slipped and fell from the train, and as he fell he said, 'Oh God, my wife and children!'"
When Mother came home I told her all that I had seen in my dream, she told her brother, and when the men who came with the body, which they brought to Gunnison for burial, were told they said everything checks but what he said, and that nobody knows.
Written by Chloe Margaret (Woods) Underwood, daughter of J.T. Woods.
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