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Norman Briges Yarwood

Birth	:	29 Mar 1843 Schaghticoke, Rensselaer County, New York, USA
Death	:	5 Mar 1933 Saint Cloud, Osceola County, Florida, USA
Burial	:	Cook Cemetery, Cook, Johnson County, USA
Coordinate	:	40.5168991, -96.1797028
Description	:	YARWOOD, Norman B. ST. CLOUD TRIBUNE, March 9, 1933, pg. 5 N. B. Yarwood Passes Away At Home Here The body of Norman B. Yarwood, 80, who died at 516 New York Avenue Sunday, will be shipped to Cook, Johnson County, Nebr., this week for burial. No funeral service is being held here. The deceased was born in Schaghticoke, N. Y. He had been a resident of St. Cloud for twelve years. He leaves to mourn... Read More	YARWOOD, Norman B. ST. CLOUD TRIBUNE, March 9, 1933, pg. 5 N. B. Yarwood Passes Away At Home Here The body of Norman B. Yarwood, 80, who died at 516 New York Avenue Sunday, will be shipped to Cook, Johnson County, Nebr., this week for burial. No funeral service is being held here. The deceased was born in Schaghticoke, N. Y. He had been a resident of St. Cloud for twelve years. He leaves to mourn his loss, his widow, Mrs. Hattie Yarwood and six children. ST. CLOUD TRIBUNE, March 16, 1933, pg. 3 N. B. Yarwood, Dead WAS FORMER POSTMASTER AT COOK Cook, Neb., March 7. - (To The Chieftain) - Word came to Cook that N. B. Yarwood had died at his home at St. Cloud, Fla., Sunday, and that the remains would be brought to Cook for interment. Mr. Yarwood had been in failing health for some time, but particulars concerning his final sickness have not been received. Norman Briges Yarwood was a son of Joshua Nelson and Eliza Ann (Cronk) Yarwood, and he was born at Schaghticoke, N. Y., March 29, 1843, making his age eighty-nine years, eleven months and six days. Mr. Yarwood, youngest of six children, was the only surviving member of his family. The deceased lived in the vicinity of Troy and Hoosick Falls, his native state, until 1851, when he located in DeKalab clounty, Ills. He attended district school and the High school at Belvidere, Ills. Mr. Yarwood was married to Mrs. Lizzie Ward, at Brownville, Neb., October 16, 1867, and his wife passed away at Cook September 26, 1904. On June 24, 1907, Mr. Yarwood was united in matrimony to Mrs. Hattie DeWolfe, who survives him. Six children were born to Mr. Yarwood's first marriage and are living, being Mrs. Hattie McDermitt of Cook, Mrs. Cora B. Hall of Lincoln, Jessie E. Yarwood of Chicago, Mrs. Luvia Tober of Abilene, Kans., Howard C. Yarwood of Omaha, and Mrs. Blanch Snowden of Tecumseh, and there are grandchildren and great grandchildren. Mr. Yarwood was a soldier in the Civil war, having enlisted at Chicago, August 1, 1861, with Company K, 42nd regiment Illinois Volunteers, and later being assigned to Company D, First battalion 16th United States infantry. He was in the battle of Stone River, Tenn., and, in the battle of Chickamauga, Ga., was taken prisoner and sent to Libby prison and Pemberton prison in Richmond, Va., to Danville, Va., and Andersonville, Ga., and finally to Florence, S. C. After serving fifteen months of prison life and being nearly starved to death, he was pardoned. At the end of his prison life Mr. Yarwood weighed by sixty-three pounds, and he had experienced all of the terrible treatment for which these prisons were so noted. He was given an honorable discharge from the service and mustered out at Camp Parole, near Anapolis, Md., April 7, 1865. Mr. Yarwood was assessor of Spring Creek precinct for several terms and was postmaster at Cook three terms, and had also operated a general merchandise store in this town. He located in Nebraska September 16, 1865, his first home being on a homestead three miles east of Cook. He left Nebraska in June, 1918, going to St. Cloud, where he has since resided. His experiences in this section in the early days, including that of the grasshopper invasion, were the same as the other early pioneers. He had always been a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and his immediate association was with the post of his home town or that most convenient thereto. In a recent "Believe It or Not' column the following article appeared: A "Believe It or Not" Explanation The Waters of Providence Spring At the time of the Civil War, a prison camp was established in Andersonville, Ga., the camp being enclosed in a stockade through which ran a filthy stream. The prisoners longed and prayed, not only for food, but for good water to drink, and on the night of August 16, 1864, during an electrical storm, a bolt of lightning miraculously opened up a pure water spring within the stockade. Believing the breaking forth of this spring to be a miracle of divine providence, the name given to its memorial pavillion in Prison Park, national cemetery, Andersonville, Ga. Mr. Yarwood was one of the first to drink from the Providence Spring. The last survivor of the war of 1812 died 25 years ago on May 14. He was Hiram Cronk, and he succumbed at the age of 105 at his home in Dunnbrook, N. Y. Mr. Cronk was a great uncle of Mr. Yarwood. (Obituary provided by Laura Phillips August 22, 2009.)

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Norman Briges Yarwood's memorial is located at: Cook Cemetery, Cook, Johnson County, USA.
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Norman Briges Yarwood death on 5 Mar 1933 in Saint Cloud, Osceola County, Florida, USA
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Latitude: 40.5168991
Longitude: -96.1797028

Family Members:

Spouse

Elizabeth “Lizzie” Crook Yarwood

(1845 - 1904)

Harrietta Cynthia “Hattie” Dewey Yarwood

(1864 - 1956)

Children

Hattie Yarwood McDermitt

(1868 - 1939)

Blanche M. Yarwood Snowden

(1886 - 1943)

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