Anna Cogswell Wood (1850 - 1940)

Born 2 Aug 1850 in Rock Hill, Frederick, Virginia

Ancestors

Died 9 Feb 1940 at age 89 in Florence, Florence, Italy

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Biography

Annie was a daughter of Algernon Ridgway Wood and Louisa Cogswell.^[1]

Birth

Birth:

Date: 2 August 1850

Place: Rock Hill, Frederick, Virginia^[2]

Education

1868

Valley Female Seminary

Place: Frederick County, Virginia

Note

1871

Annie Cogwell Wood and Irene Kirke Leache opened a school for girls of all ages, the Leache-Wood Seminary, in Norfolk, Virginia

Published

1892

"Westover's Ward" (3 volumes)

1901

"The Story of a Friendship"

1904

"Idyles and Impressions of Travel, From the Notebooks of Two Friends," was published by The Neale Publishing Company

Travel

Date: 26 July 1905

sailed from Baltimore to Bremen aboard the North German Lloyd steamship, Grosser Kurfurst

Death

Death:

Date: 9 February 1940

Place: Florence, Florence, Italy^[3][4]

Cremated; her ashes were shipped to the U. S.^[5]

Burial

Burial:

Place: Norfolk, Virginia

Elmwood Cemetery

Find a Grave Memorial of Anna Cogswell "Annie" Wood

Sources

1. ↑ Wood-14557 was created by Audrey Kern through the import of deRos2.ged on May 23, 2015.
2. ↑ Source: #S314 page 249
3. ↑ Source: #S314 page 250
4. ↑ Source: #S3311
5. ↑ Source: #S3311

• Two Women One Remarkable Gift, by Joshua Weinstein, Chrysler Museum of Art.
• Source: S314 Some Worthy Lives Author: Quarles, Garland R. Publication: Winchester-Frederick County Historical Society, 1988 Repository: #R172
• Source: S3311 Report of the Death of an American Citizen; Annie Cogswell Wood, Number: Number 365.113. 9 February 1940
• The Reconstruction of White Southern Womanhood, 1865–1895, Jane Turner Censer, (Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press) 2003
• Repository: R172 Bull Run Regional Library, Prince William County Library System, 8051 Ashton Avenue, Manassas, Virginia (703) 792-4500