C. 1848-1850    Address Unknown, Alstead, New Hampshire.

Gilbert Wood appeared in the same announcement in two different newspapers.  The first appeared on November 21.  1850 in the Congregational Journal (Concord, New Hampshire).  At Ossipee, the 6^th inst., at his brother-in-law’s. Rev. Horace Wood, Mr. Gilbert Wood, of Alstead, aged 28 years.

For several years he had been engaged in teaching writing and taking Daguerreotype likenesses, which gave him an opportunity of securing a large number of intimate friends, to whom he was firmly attached and the to him.  He had been a professor of religion fifteen years.  His sickness was very painful and protracted, which he bore with patience and resignation.  His trust was in God, and his end was peace.  One sister and five brothers survive to mourn his loss, beside a large circle of more distant connections.

Gentle thy passing spirit fled,

Sustained by grace divine,

Oh may such grace on us be shed,

And make our end like thine. 

The second appeared on November 22, 1850 in the New Hampshire Statesman (Concord, New Hampshire).  At Ossipee, the 6^th inst., at his brother-in-law’s. Rev. Horace Wood, Mr. Gilbert Wood, of Alstead, aged 28 years.

For several years he had been engaged in teaching writing and taking Daguerreotype likenesses, which gave him an opportunity of securing a large number of intimate friends, to whom he was firmly attached and the to him.  He had been a professor of religion fifteen years.  His sickness was very painful and protracted, which he bore with patience and resignation.  His trust was in God, and his end was peace.  One sister and five brothers survive to mourn his loss, beside a large circle of more distant connections.

Gentle thy passing spirit fled,

Sustained by grace divine,

Oh may such grace on us be shed,

And make our end like thine. 

Gilbert Wood is not recorded in other photographic directories.