Ann Eliza Sigler Woods (1827-1900)
(Mrs. Bartlett Woods)

MRS. WOODS was known in childhood and youth as ANN ELIZA SIGLER. She was a daughter of Samuel Sigler, a pioneer settler of 1836, a sister of well known businessmen of Hebron and Wheeler and South Chicago. She was born April 21, 1827. She was married to Mr. Bartlett Woods at the family home in Lake County January 28, 1847, then not quite twenty years of age.

She died at their home in Crown Point, after but a few days of sickness, October 6, 1900, after a life of 78 years and 5 months, a residence among us as a pioneer of 64 years, and a life as a dutiful and kindhearted wife and then as an affectionate and true mother, of more than 53 years. She has left here, besides her husband, seven children: Mrs. Caroline Randolph of Hammond; W.G. Woods of Ross Township; J.B. Woods of Boone Grove; S.B. Woods, residing on the old farm in Ross Township; Mrs. Charlotte Merrill; Walter L. Woods of Chicago; and Mrs. Alice Cormack of Hammond.