Woodward - Clara Walls - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

Sandusky (O.) Register: The announcement in Thursday morning’s Register of the death of Mrs. Col. Woodward was a sudden and painful shock to a wide circle of friends. It was known that she had been in poor health for some time, but it was confidently hoped that her sojourn in the mild southern climate during the severe later months of the winter would restore her to health. Mrs. Woodward returned from Daytona, Florida, on the 10th and was taken seriously ill soon after arrival. Everything that medical skill and loving care could do was done, but after an apparent improvement which gave those near her renewed hope of her recover, she began to fail suddenly and rapidly on Thursday as the sun was setting, and passed to the life immortal soon after 9 o’clock that evening.

Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal Friday, 24 March 1899

Clara L. Walls was born at Greencastle, Ind., December the 20th, 1856. Later she removed with her parents to Crawfordsville where she grew to womanhood. Oct. 19, 1880, she was married to Col. W. W. Woodward, coming at once to Sandusky, which has been her home since—a period of eighteen and one half years. Never of strong constitution, she had not enjoyed robust health for some years, but that did not deter her from manifold works for others. The home was a shrine of mutual happiness, confidence and contentment. The activities of her church, a center not only of her concern, but her personal aid and labor and her friends in the social and literary circles where her presence was prized, were the objects of her unselfish interest and the poor the beneficiaries of her helping hand.

The Nineteenth Century Club, of which Mrs. Woodward was a charter member, adjourned immediately on meeting Thursday morning as a mark of respect to her memory.

The funeral was held at 2 o’clock Saturday afternoon from the residence on East Washington Street, in the presence of a large number of friends and neighbors. Many beautiful floral tributes were silent witnesses to the affectionate regard in which the deceased was held.