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07-Artilissa "Artie" Alice McKnight
Birth: 16 Aug 1882
Death: Oct 1978, nursing home, Tipton, Tipton Co, IN- age 96
Burial: Summit Lawn Cemetery
Occupation: SSN: 303-26-3311/IN as Artie Wood
Mother: Penelope Ann "Nellie" Garriott


Marriage: 23 Dec 1903, Crothersville, Jackson Co, IN

1st Spouse: Winfred J LEWIS

Birth: 17 Mar 1877, Jennings Co, IN

Death: 8 Jan 1910, Indianapolis, Marion Co, IN- age 32

​Occupation: Farm Hand [death certificate]

Burial: Crothersville Cemetery

Father: Seth Lewis

Mother: Sarah Bridges


    1ST MARRIAGE: Artilissa 1st married Winfred LEWIS on 23 Dec 1903, had three children:
08----FRANCIS P LEWIS [b. 10 Feb 1905, Indianapolis, Marion Co, IN; d. 31 Oct 1973, Sheridan, Hamilton Co, IN- age 68];
08----WINFREDA A LEWIS [b. 31 Mar 1907,  Loogootee, Martin Co, IN; d. 11 Jan 1989, 11 Jan 1989, Tipton Co, IN- age 82];
08----SARAH ALICE LEWIS [b. 4 Oct 1909, Indianapolis, Marion Co, IN; d. 22 Jan 2007, Elwood, Madison Co, IN- age 98], SSN: 311-20-6446/IN, m.
Mervin L JONES [b. 14 Feb 1907; d. 24 Jul 1960, Madison Co, IN- age 53, Burial Memorial Park], SSN: 303-03-2961/IN, son of Charles Jones and Maggie Crothers, had 6 children: [census]

     09----CAROLYN JONES [b. 1931, IN];

     09----ALICE JONES [b. 1933, IN];

     09----MARY JONES [b. 1935, IN];

     09----SAMUEL JONES [b. 1936, IN];

     09----PATRICIA JONES [b. 1937, IN]; and

     09----DAVID JONES [b. 1919, IN].


Marriage: 1 Jun 1916, Loogootee, Martin Co, IN
2nd Spouse: James William WOOD
Birth: 1867, Loogootee, Martin Co, IN
Death: 19 Oct 1926- age 59
Father: Charles Wood (1832-1882)
Mother: Mary Charlotte Padgett (1835-1911)

    2ND MARRIAGE: Artilissa 2nd married James William WOOD and had five children:
08----MARJORIE WOOD [b. 1920?], m.
Thomas "Bud" TWILLING [b. 6 May 1910; d. Jun 1979, Tipton, IN- age 69], had four children:
08----JAMES WILLIAM JR WOOD [b. 17 Jul 1917, Loogootee, Martin Co, IN], m.
Virginia FIELDS [b. 16 Apr 1916, Westfield, Hamilton Co, IN; d. 19 Oct 1995, Westfield, Hamilton Co, IN- age 79], SSN: 309-16-2965/IN, in Hamilton Co, IN, had three children:
08----CHARLOTTE MAY WOOD [b. 10 Oct 1918, Loogootee, Martin Co, IN;  d. 9 Mar 2001, Nobelsville, Hamilton Co, IN, age: 82], SSN: 315-05-8639/IN, m.
Robert Aaron STUART [b. 5 Dec 1915, Hamilton Co, IN; d. 15 Dec 1996, St. Vincent's Hosp, Indianapolis, Marion Co, IN, age: 81, bur. Westfield, Hamilton Co, IN], SSN: 310-05-3018/IN, lived in Sheridan, Hamilton Co, IN, son of Perry Lewis STUART (1889-1960) and Myrtie MAYFIELD (-1940), on 23 Dec 1939, Westfield, Hamilton Co, IN
08----GENEVIEVE WOOD [b. 1922];
08----NELLIE SUE WOOD [b. 1925], m.
Ralph JESSUP [b. 1925], had two children.


     CENSUS:

     1900 Vernon Twp, Jackson Co, IN census: has Winfred Lewis 23, RR Laborer; and Mary A Lewis 28 (1 child-0 living).

     1940 Elwood, Madison Co, IN census: has (all b. IN) Mervin Jones 33, Salesman-International Farm Equipment; Sarah Jones 30; Carolyn Jones 9; Alice Jones 7; Mary Jones 5; Samuel Jones 4; Patrica Jones 3; and David Jones 1.  

     1978 OBITUARY: Mrs Artie A Wood, 96, former Westfield resident died Saturday, Oct. 28, 1978, in the Higgins Health Facility in Tipton. Mrs Wood had been a resident of the facility for the past two years. She had worked as a practical nurse and many years ago was housemother at the Indiana University Medical Center senior girls' dormitory. Mrs Wood was born Aug 16, 1882, in Washington County to George and Penelope (Garriott) McKnight. She was the widow of James W Wood, who died in 1926. She is survived by a son, James W of Westfield; and five daughters, Mrs Winfreda Hillard and Mrs Marjorie Twilling, both of Tipton; Mrs Charlotte Stuart of Sheridan; Mrs Sarah Jones of Elwood and Mrs Sue Jessup of Mooresville. Mrs Wood also is survived by 31 grandchildren, 44 great-grandchildren, 10 great-great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.

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