Dr. Vernon Dudley Rood M.D. was born on 20. Apr. 1842 at Fletcher, Franklin County, Vermont. He was the son of
Dudley Belcher Rood and
Elizabeth Himes. Dr. Vernon Dudley Rood M.D. resided at at Fletcher, Franklin County, Vermont, in 1861. He began military service on 16. May. 1861; enlisted as a private. He enlisted in Co H, 2nd Rhode Island Infantry Regiment on 20. Jun. 1861. He a POW at Savages Station, Virginia. Wounded on 29. Jun. 1862. He Paroled on 25. Jul. 1862. He ended military service on 27. Jun. 1864; discharged. He was graduated in Jun. 1867 at Burlington Medical University, Burlington, Chittenden County, Vermont. He married
Sarah Catherine Voorhees, daughter of
Abraham L. Voorhees and
Catherine Rockefeller, on 29. Jun. 1869.
Dr. Vernon Dudley Rood M.D. and
Sarah Catherine Voorhees appeared on the census of 12. Jul. 1870 at with her parents, Readington Twp., Hunterdon County, New Jersey; peraonal property 1,500.00. Dr. Vernon Dudley Rood M.D. was shown in the census on 12. Jul. 1870 as a physician. Dr. Vernon Dudley Rood M.D. was shown in the census on 22. Jun. 1880 as a doctor.
Dr. Vernon Dudley Rood M.D. and
Sarah Catherine Voorhees appeared on the census of 22. Jun. 1880 at Anita, Cass County, Iowa. Dr. Vernon Dudley Rood M.D. died on 26. Oct. 1906 at San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, at age 64.
Dudley Belcher ROOD, the father of Mr. ROOD, was born in Shoreham, Vermont, 1797, to which State his father went after the War of the Revolution. He died in Fletcher, Franklin county, Vermont, 1889, aged ninety-two. Like his forefathers, he was a farmer by vocation, and reared his children on the farm. When the trouble arose between England and the United States in 1812 he joined the corps of sharpshooters known as the Minute-Men, and did effectual work. He was in the battle of Plattsburg, but escaped unharmed. At the cessation of hostilities he returned to his farm, and took up the even tenor of his life as though there had been no tragic break in it. He married Elizabeth HIMES, daughter of Vernon HIMES, of Rhode Island, a Revolutionary soldier and a blacksmith and farmer, who also claimed pure English descent. Elizabeth was born in Vermont in 1802, and proved an excellent wife for those days of unrest. They were the parents of eight children, of whom E. J. ROOD and a younger brother, William Hammond ROOD, of Fairfax, Vermont, are the sole survivors. The six dead are: Electra, Jane, Elizabeth, Harriet, Martha, Dr. Vernon D. ROOD, who died in California, was a soldier in Company H, Second Vermont Regiment, Civil War, was wounded before Richmond and taken prisoner, exchanged after four weeks.