MO Death Cert # 524-a

Father = Isaac Wooden/Kentucky
Mother = Rebecca Stephenson/Virginia
Widow
Informant = Julia Bunch
COD = Pneumonia
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[All of the following information is from the book titled Wooden Family, by Dorothy Sykes, Jennie Opal Kleitz O'Roark, Herb Wooden.]

Obituary published in an unidentified newspaper in Carroll County, Missouri:

Mrs. Eliza Jane Muzingo died January 19, 1917 at the age of 83 years 10 months. She died in the home of John I. Wolf. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. Rucker of Ludlow, Missouri, and the remains were laid to rest in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, near Cowgill, Missouri.

She was a member of one of Carroll County's oldest and most highly
respected families. She was born in Fountain County, Indiana, October 9th, 1833, and came to Carroll County with her parents when six years old.

November 12, 1865 she married Wyatt Muzingo. He and a son, a daughter, and a grand daughter departed this life a number of years ago. She was a resident of Cowgill, until about four years ago, she became unable to care for herself and was taken to the home of her nephew John. I. Wolf where she has since resided. She was a woman of sterling worth, a patient devoted Christian and respected by all who knew her. She will be missed in the home where she has been cared for in her last days.
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Eliza Jane Wooden Muzingo, when a girl in the early days, before there were any schools, gathered together children of the settlers and taught them their first lessons, in a room built on her father's log cabin. She lived most of her married life in Cowgill, Missouri. In 1883 or 1884 she took Stella West into her home and sent her to school.
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From an unidentified newspaper in the area of Cowgill, Missouri:

"Cowgill has a record breaker in the person of Eliza jane Muzingo age 70 years, who wove over 1000 yards of carpet on an ordinary hand loom in 1902. Who can beat it?"