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BY WAYNE F. BALDWIN
Rappahannock News
Contributing Writer
And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died)...Genesis Chapter 35, verse 18. I like to think that the Lord saw reason for me to be with my dear cousin during this time. Praying that God would not let her suffer any longer, singing a couple of hymns and telling her how much I had appreciated having known her. Thanking God for her and her long life, wonderful memory and the precious moments we’d shared.
Eliza Maude Baldwin Woodward, aged 93 years, four months, one day, departed this life on Jan. 19, 1998. Born in September 1904 to her parents, Marshall Denton and Mary Frances Shotwell Baldwin. She spent most of her first ten years living in Rappahannock with her grandparents, Samuel Jackson and Eliza Jane Dwyer Baldwin. It was during this period that she became acquainted with her great grandparents also. Therefore, passing on to me valuable information of historical significance only to our family. Such wonderful items as the size of her great grandmother’s shoe. Her grandfather, Samuel Baldwin and my great great grandfather George Robert Baldwin, being brothers. From her also came the story of George Baldwin always carrying a sack or bag whenever he went somewhere. In that bag he would have, something to eat, and usually it would be some biscuits and onions. She had heard him say, “the only thing good about an onion was another onion.”
Having personally known her for nearly 25 years, I was witness to her faith in God. By the many tragedies that occurred in her life she always looked to God for her strength. Three of her children preceded her in death and she wept, wondering why she was left here.
On several occasions especially Sunday afternoons, I’d sit at dinner with her and other family. Usually we shared the latest news, keeping each other informed of our families’ whereabouts and welfare, who married whom or
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