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Here’s another older burial that I surveyed this past friday. This is considered a Brooks cemetery but the Brooks burials don’t start until 1900. This was the original landowner. I post this for Vance and Brenda… and any others with Woods surname….. guys..is he one of yours?
1. Hugh WOODS Senr / Born / Jun 10, 1783 / Died / Jul 21st, 1863 (?) /
2. Elizabeth / wife of / Hugh WOODS, Sen / Died Jun 5, 1837 / Aged / 44 (?) YS 5 MS 2 DS /
44 is hard to read… if correct her birth date would be Jan 3, 1793 if my math is correct.
Hi Dreaming Hawk
Where is this cemetary located? My Woods were in Gibson County, Indiana by 1806 but before that on Holston River in E Tn. where my Mary (Polly) Wood/s was born @ 1796.
Hugh might have been a cousin of hers I don’t know.
thanks
vance
Hugh and wife are buried on the Woodsdale Rd in the northern part of Person co, NC near the Dan[Roanoke] [Staunton] [Saponi] River. an easy paddle upriver from the 3 islands but well before the first falls.
Dreaming Hawk,
I have found out more about my Woods since I last posted here.
Joseph Wood b. near Charlottesville, Va 1745, m. 1768 to Mary Hamilton.
Oldest son was John Woods, 1769-1840 something. John had a son named “Hugh Woods” married 1822 to Nancy Wheeler.
John also had a son named James Hamilton Woods (1812-1869) who had a son named Hugh Woods b. 6-13-1834 who married Phoeba Ann Green.
Joseph Wood/s had 11 known children, all born between 1769 and 1791 — none are named Hugh.
However there was one born n 1783. My information reads — 8th child, Isaac Woods 1783-1872, married Elizabeth Witherspoon. I have nothing more about Elizabeth. Wish I had a birth, marriage or death dates.
I have nothing more, except a little about one of their children —
their 7th child was: David Woods, m. 1840 Nancy Ayers. They had 3 children, Martha J Woods, m. ? Firoved, Isaac wood m. Lizzie Htchinson, James H Woods. This bit about their kids was contributed by someone from Owensville, Indiana. They gave it to someone who in turn gave it to me. I don’t have the source.
Could Isaac have been Isaac “Hugh” Woods? I suspect it is a conicidence that both had wives named Elizabeth, but I am gonna keep my eye on it until I can rule it out.
These poeple used the same given names generation after generation, so I suspect they might be related.
thanks
vance
Vance,
Becky and I have discovered and surveyed another Wood cemetery since we started this thread….. in the southern part of Person co, NC
Richard Wood Cemetery
Location: Pixley Pritchard Rd (SR 1567 )
Directions: From Roxboro, take 158E to left on Thomas Store Rd (SR 1568 ) to right on Pixley Pritchard. Second drive on right.
Access: deep in woods beyond the house on private property
Survey: Mar 2005 by Ken Dalton, Becky Farlow and Joey Farlow
GPS: 36 21 18.4 N 078 48 40.7 W
Special Thanks: We wish to thank Fred Haithcock for guiding us to this cemetery as well as 3 others. He even borrowed a chainsaw at this location to cut a huge chunk of fallen wood out to read information on one stone.
Graves
1 – Adlade WOOD / Born 1840 / Died 1906 / Death is the crown of life /
2 – John A WOOD / Born / Nov 1, 1849 / Died / July 11, 1883 / I will put my trust in him / (fs) JAW /
3 – Richard WOOD / Born / Oct 31, 1803 / Died / Dec 16, 1851 / There is none righteous, no not one Rom 3-10 /
4 – Elizabeth / wife of / Richard WOOD / Born / May 8, 1812 / Died / Dec 11(?) 1875 / The Lord is my helper / Heb 13-6 /
5 – BW (foot stone) (no headstone)
6 – Susan C WOOD / Born 1831 / Died 1894 / Remember friends as you / pass by, as you are / now, so once was I. / As I am now, you too / must be. Prepare therefore to follow me /
Dreaming hawk —
Thank you so much. These people were obviously very religions judging from those tombstones.
I’m gonna be remembering Susan Wood’s tombstone a long time. I seem to have heard that poem, or a variation of it, somewhere — not sure just where tho.
You mention Fred Hathcock. Whould he know on Hathcock? I rally want to get my hands on Ron’s book.
thanks
Vance
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