Joseph Wood (1821 - 1888)

Born 1 Mar 1821 in Cocke, Tennessee, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth Ruth (Johnson) Wood — married 18 Oct 1846 in Sullivan, Missouri, United States

Descendants

Died 3 May 1888 at age 67 in Putnam, Missouri, United States

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Biography

Joseph Wood was born 1 March 1821 in Cocke County, Tennessee. "He was the twelfth child in a family of fourteen born to David and Ruth Fowler Wood, natives of Pennsylvania and Cooke County, Tennessee, respectively." ^{[1] [2]}

Joseph Wood, when fourteen years of age, went to the Unaka Mountains to herd stock until arriving at his majority. He then immigrated to Linn (now Putnam) County, riding upon a buckskin pony the entire distance from Tennessee to the farm upon which he later resided. He wore buckskin britches and a coon-skin cap and had only 75¢ in money, but boundless energy, perseverance and business ability.
He homesteaded a large acreage and was one of the wealthiest men in Putnam County [Missouri].^[1]

Joe Wood had come to Missouri in 1842:

For a short time he lived in the home of a brother who had previously located in Sullivan county, and the then removed to Putnam county, where he obtained from the government an unsurveyed tract of one hundred and sixty acres of land, near Newtown. He had the prescience to realize the wisdom of investing in land at the low prices then prevalent, and by successive entries and purchases he finally accumulated three thousand acres, the major part of which he eventually divided among his children. He served in the state militia at the time of the Civil War and was a man of prominence and influence in Putnam county, where he gained and retained unqualified popular esteem. ^[3]

Marriage and Family

Joseph Wood married Elizabeth Ruth Johnson in Sullivan County, Missouri in 1846. ^[4]

Joe and Elizabeth Wood were the parents of nine children, seven of whom survived infancy: ^{[5] [6] [7]}

1. Thomas N. Wood
2. Julia (Wood) Moore
3. WIlliam Joseph Wood
4. Jalia (Wood) Gregory
5. John L. Wood
6. David Putnam Wood
7. Franklin Perry Wood

Death and Legacy

Joseph Wood died in 1888. ^{[8] [9]} He is buried in the Newtown Cemetery in Sullivan County, Missouri.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Elson, Phyllis, “Elizabeth and Joseph Wood,” Mrs. Earl Powell Collection, 1853-1896 (C1845, Folder 2), Columbia Manuscript Collections, State Historical Society of Missouri (SHSMO), Columbia, Missouri; electronic copy of collection in Portable Document Format received via email from SHSMO to Teague-1504, Oakland, California, 27 July 2016. Typed manuscript by Phyllis Elson, great-granddaughter of Joseph Wood.
2. ↑ Goodspeed Publishing Co., History of Adair, Sullivan, Putnam and Schuyler Counties, Missouri, From the Earliest Times to the Present: Together with Sundry Personal, Business and Professional Sketches and Numerous Family Records; Besides a Valuable Fund of Notes, Original Observations, Etc., Etc., (Chicago: 1888), 1128; digital images, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/cu31924028846231/page/1126/mode/2up? : downloaded 18 March 2023).
3. ↑ Williams, Walter (ed.), A History of Northeast Missouri, Volume 2 (Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, 1913), 773; digital images, Google Books (https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_History_of_Northeast_Missouri/E2lYStmwIFYC : accessed 30 July 2022).
4. ↑ "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:WPSQ-PF3Z : 25 February 2022), Joseph Wood, 18 Oct 1846; citing Marriage, Sullivan, Missouri, United States, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City; FHL microfilm 007515674.
5. ↑ "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHZM-13N : 18 February 2021), Joseph Wood, 1860.
6. ↑ "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M46K-DNC : 29 May 2021), Joseph Wood, 1870.
7. ↑ "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6FW-8CC : 14 January 2022), Joseph Wood, Medicine Township, Putnam, Missouri, United States; citing enumeration district 212, sheet 566D, NARA microfilm publication T9, roll 711 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
8. ↑ "Missouri, Wills and Probate Records, 1766-1988," database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/2545954?mark=c00557893b5cc2a1286226c05ff4763258da43abd596d8bb6778c0dad396283c : 2015); citing Missouri Probate Court (Putnam County), Probate Records, 1857-1940; Index to Probate Records, 1853-1977.
9. ↑ [Obituary for Joseph Wood], The Investigator (Unionville, Missouri), 17 May 1888 (Thu.), p. 1. col. 1; digital image, Newspapers (https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-investigator-joseph-wood-obituary/121141089/ : downloaded 18 March 2023).

See also:

• Find A Grave: Memorial #194534138