Grace Wood Mundt

Since my previous post mentioned Grace Mundt, daughter of John Warren Wood and Margaret Hollett, I'm posting the only portrait of her contained in the Wood/Vincent photo album.


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Grace was born in 1884. In this photo she looks about 14 years old, so we can estimate that it dates to 1898 or thereabouts. The style of her dress (what little I can see of it) seems consistent with that. Unfortunately, there is no photographer's name on the photo.

She is identified by a handwritten caption.



On June 8, 1906, Grace married Dr. Gustoff Henry Mundt in Chicago. His obituary, from 1962, gives you some idea of what sort of people they both were.


Suburbanite-Economist (Evergreen Park, Ill.), April 4, 1962.

Grace's entry at findagrave.com includes a photo of Grace and Henry and two children.

The Death of Margaret Hollett Wood

A member-by-marriage of the Deep River Wood family died on November 4, 1923.


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Hobart Gazette, Nov. 9, 1923.

Her late husband, John W. Wood, had been born to John and Hannah (Pattee) Wood in 1838, after they came to Lake County, Indiana. He was given the name of a brother who had died in childhood, back in Massachusetts.

Margaret was the daughter of Thomas and Deborah Hollett, natives of New York. The 1860 Census is the first that records them in Porter County, farming in Porter Township. It is also the last one that records Margaret under her maiden name. The following year she married John W. Wood.

John gave his occupation as house painter in the 1870 Census, which shows him, Margaret, and their five-year-old daughter, Anna M., living in Valparaiso. By the 1880 Census, John had gone into the grocery business — and stayed there, apparently, since he still gave his occupation as grocer in the 1900 Census. Sometime after 1900 he retired and moved (according to his obituary) to Chicago, and there he died in 1907.

I can't find Margaret in the 1910 Census. The 1920 Census shows her living in Chicago with her daughter, Grace, who was by then the wife of Dr. Henry Mundt and the mother of two young children.

The niece in Gary at whose home Margaret died, Mrs. Otis B. Nesbit, was the Alice Vincent Nesbit who (I suspect) owned the Wood-Vincent photo album.

Margaret's entry on findagrave.com also lists her children who did not survive her.