Martha (Magness) Wood (1817 - 1897)

Born 15 Jan 1817 in Greenville County, South Carolina, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Solomon R. Wood — married about 1838 in Arkansas [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 21 Jun 1897 at age 80 in Springfield Greene County Missouri, United States

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Biography

The "Bramble Bush" Volume 3 Number 2, The Quarterly Newsletter of the Historic Genealogical Society of Marion County Arkansas, compiled by Vicki Roberts and Mysty McPherson: Children of William "Dancin' Bill" & Hannah (Austin) Wood Sr.

SOLOMON M. "Bud" WOOD b Anderson Co. TN ca 1818 d MCAR 1851 m 1838 MARTHA "Patsy" MAGNESS (daughter of James W. & Narcissa [Barnett] Magness) b SC 15 Jan 1817. In Blythe Township MCAR 1840, Buffalo Fork Township MCAR 1850. Patsy was a widow in Blythe Township in 1860. They raised John D. Hurst (son of William & Narcissa [Magness] Hurst) b 1847; his mother died when he was 8 days old, gave him to her sister to raise.

Mountain Echo Newspaper - Marion County, AR July 18, 1929 A Series of Articles Written by W. R. Jones “Some History of Marion County” Solomon, son of Judge Wood, married Patsy Magness, daughter of Pioneer James Magness, the first white man in Yellville. Solomon settled on Crooked creek, some 15 miles west of Yellville, on what was then Marion, but now Boone county. "Uncle Jack" Hurst, nephew to Patsy, was mostly reared in this home.

Sources

• Mountain Echo Newspaper - Marion County, AR July 25, 1929 A Series of Articles Written by W. R. Jones “Some History of Marion County”
• The "Bramble Bush" Volume 3 Number 2, The Quarterly Newsletter of the Historic Genealogical Society of Marion County Arkansas, compiled by Vicki Roberts and Mysty McPherson: Children of William "Dancin' Bill" & Hannah (Austin) Wood Sr.
• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M678-J3Z : 4 April 2020), Martha Wood in household of Solomon R Wood, Marion county, Marion, Arkansas, United States; citing family 37, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MN7Y-XY1 : 24 August 2017), Martha Wood in household of James B Wood, Harrison, Boone, Arkansas, United States; citing enumeration district ED 18, sheet 524C, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,254,039.
• Find A Grave: Memorial #145794980 Hazelwood Cemetery, Springfield, Missouri