Women of Woodcraft was a female auxiliary to Woodmen of the World (WOW), which was founded in 1897 by Joseph Cullen Root. Women of Woodcraft covered the nine states of the Woodmen’s Pacific Jurisdiction: California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. In 1917 Women of Woodcraft changed their name to Neighbors of Woodcraft (NOW). In 2001 NOW returned to its roots and merged with WOW.
Photo: from the headstone of Nettie Curran (1881-1916), Fairmount Cemetery, Denver, Colorado
June 10, 2007 at 9:33 am |
Yesterday (June 9, 2007), I observed my father’s mother’s headstone at Forest Hill Cemetery in Cosmopolis, Washington. The Women of Woodcraft symbol was embossed in the granite. Her name was Rachel Vernecia (Wilson) Moore, wife of Charles B. Moore. Rachel: b. 1870, d. 1910.
October 8, 2008 at 7:37 pm |
My mom was a Neighbors of Woodcraft, went through all the chairs in the “great Depression” in Pine Circle # 45 in Springfield Oregon. I was insured and so were my kids in an endowment policy we cashed out in 1969. I always wondered what happened to the NOW. Of great impression to me as a young kid were the pot luck dinners usually once a month or so. Great food, not always easy to come by in the depression years.
November 7, 2009 at 11:03 pm |
I had never heard of Woodmen of the World or Women of Woodcraft until I was photographing headstones at Pioneer Memorial Cemetery in San Bernardino, CA the other day. I was amazed at how many stones were marked with their logos, so I went home and looked into them. What interesting organizations! Too bad they eventually quit sponsoring headstones.