Is This Your Wood Family Member

It turns out my second post will be one that will hopefully help others. As I have been going through some family papers, I found this clipping from my great grandmothers papers. The clipping appears to be from Port Huron, MI.  As far as I can tell, it doesn't belong to my family, but maybe someone out there will find the information interesting.

Transcription included below photo.

Mrs. Emily A Wood, 2015 Oak Street, who heard Abraham Lincoln speak, and who in her young girlhood was taken to school in New York state by her father to protect her from Indians, is celebrating her one hundredth birthday today.

She was born Dec. 28, 1845 in Hanover, Mich., near Jackson, the Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Whitman. When she was a small child, the family moved to New York. They returned to Jackson when she was 15. She was married to the late Benson J. Wood Nov 30, 1871. They had two children, Frank C. Wood and Mary Wood Hibbard, both of whom are dead. Her son owned a grocer store here and was killed in a train accident in Port Huron.

She has three grandchildren, Mrs. Rhea E. Churchill, whit whom she lives; Benson J. Wood, Detroit, and George E. Hibbard, Battle Creek; six great grandchildren, Thomas C. Churchill and Mary Jane Churchill, both of Port Huron; Miss Catherine Hibbard, Battle Creek, and Frank J. Churchill, and Miss Roberta and Miss Rebecca Wood, all of Detroit, and one great great grandson, Lynn Churchill, Detroit.

Mr. and Mrs. Hibbard are expected here today to join in the celebration.