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Waldo Webster Heywood

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Waldo Webster Heywood

Birth
Sterling, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
Death
25 May 1907 (aged 72)
Ironton, Iron County, Missouri, USA
Burial
Ironton, Iron County, Missouri, USA Add to Map
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W W came to Iron Co Mo in 1858 looking for his friend Edwin May who was also from Sterling, Mass. W W began working at Ozark Lumber Co, a mill on Carver Creek. He soon became part owner. In Aug 1861 a group of Confederate soldiers rode into the mill and took four men as prisoners suspecting them to be spies for the Union. These four men were Johnathan Justice, Richard Hopkins, Edwin May, and Waldo Heywood. They were jailed in Bloomfield Mo for a six week period.

h/o 1st Helen Webb believed to be from Sterling, Ma. W W had returned to Mass to run his brother mill while he was ill. W W and Helen returned to Iron Co Mo in Aug 1864. This marriage lasted abt 20 years ending in divorce.

f/o Clarence and Alice

h/o 2nd Amanda Pannebecker who was thirty years his junior. m. Dec 1885

f/o Walter, Elsie, and Oscar
Walter and Elsie died young of diptheria.

W W Heywood is listed as a civilian present and fought in the Battle of Pilot Knob by T P Russell in his book.

He owned an 800 acre farm south of Ironton on Marble Creek and a house in Ironton on Wayne Street. W W and Wm T Gay purchased the Arcadia Valley Woolen Mill as a business investment which they later sold before his death.

The info for this bio is taken from the book "Past and Present, A History of Iron County Missouri which was submitted by Kenneth W. Heywood.

W W came to Iron Co Mo in 1858 looking for his friend Edwin May who was also from Sterling, Mass. W W began working at Ozark Lumber Co, a mill on Carver Creek. He soon became part owner. In Aug 1861 a group of Confederate soldiers rode into the mill and took four men as prisoners suspecting them to be spies for the Union. These four men were Johnathan Justice, Richard Hopkins, Edwin May, and Waldo Heywood. They were jailed in Bloomfield Mo for a six week period.

h/o 1st Helen Webb believed to be from Sterling, Ma. W W had returned to Mass to run his brother mill while he was ill. W W and Helen returned to Iron Co Mo in Aug 1864. This marriage lasted abt 20 years ending in divorce.

f/o Clarence and Alice

h/o 2nd Amanda Pannebecker who was thirty years his junior. m. Dec 1885

f/o Walter, Elsie, and Oscar
Walter and Elsie died young of diptheria.

W W Heywood is listed as a civilian present and fought in the Battle of Pilot Knob by T P Russell in his book.

He owned an 800 acre farm south of Ironton on Marble Creek and a house in Ironton on Wayne Street. W W and Wm T Gay purchased the Arcadia Valley Woolen Mill as a business investment which they later sold before his death.

The info for this bio is taken from the book "Past and Present, A History of Iron County Missouri which was submitted by Kenneth W. Heywood.



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