Wood Family
Our mother’s family on her father’s side can be traced to Connecticut in the late 18th century.
Stephen Wood, our great-great-great-grandfather, moved to Wayne County, Pennsylvania after 1830 with his wife Delia and their family. Evidence of relations before Stephen are not confirmed in public records. Stephen’s family settled around Calkin’s Creek in Damascus township, just off the western bank of the Delaware river.
At the same time Darius Wilcox also moved to Wayne County from Connecticut with his wife Sophronia and their family. It is not clear whether these two families knew of each other in Connecticut before moving to Pennsylvania. They certainly knew of each other after settling in Wayne county. Darius' grand-daughter, Julia Etta Wilcox married Stephen Wood's grandson, Nathaniel Wood.
Joseph Wood, Stephen’s son, owned several sawmills with his partner Thomas Boyd. Their lumber business and other associated businesses thrived through the middle 19th century. Joseph and his partner each married a Mitchell sister, further reinforcing their business relationship. The Mitchell family had also settled early in Wayne county and were influential in the history of the region. Joseph Wood died suddenly while rafting a shipment of logs down the Delaware River to market.
Nathaniel Wood was the eighth of ten children born to Joseph Wood and Almira Mitchell. Nathaniel was a farmer rather than a lumberman. He married Julia Etta Wilcox and together they had ten children. Forrest, our mother’s father, was their oldest.
Stephen Wood, our great-great-great-grandfather, moved to Wayne County, Pennsylvania after 1830 with his wife Delia and their family. Evidence of relations before Stephen are not confirmed in public records. Stephen’s family settled around Calkin’s Creek in Damascus township, just off the western bank of the Delaware river.
At the same time Darius Wilcox also moved to Wayne County from Connecticut with his wife Sophronia and their family. It is not clear whether these two families knew of each other in Connecticut before moving to Pennsylvania. They certainly knew of each other after settling in Wayne county. Darius' grand-daughter, Julia Etta Wilcox married Stephen Wood's grandson, Nathaniel Wood.
Joseph Wood, Stephen’s son, owned several sawmills with his partner Thomas Boyd. Their lumber business and other associated businesses thrived through the middle 19th century. Joseph and his partner each married a Mitchell sister, further reinforcing their business relationship. The Mitchell family had also settled early in Wayne county and were influential in the history of the region. Joseph Wood died suddenly while rafting a shipment of logs down the Delaware River to market.
Nathaniel Wood was the eighth of ten children born to Joseph Wood and Almira Mitchell. Nathaniel was a farmer rather than a lumberman. He married Julia Etta Wilcox and together they had ten children. Forrest, our mother’s father, was their oldest.
Wood Family Genealogy
References
History of Wayne, Pike and Monroe counties, Pennsylvania. Alfred Mathews. Philadelphia: R. T. Peck, 1886. page 472. |
1. Stephen Wood (1794 - 1849) b: 28 Dec 1794 in Connecticut, d: 27 Jul 1849 in Farm at Boyds Mills, Damascus Twp., Wayne Co., PA; buried at Calkins Union Cemetery, Boyds Mills, Wayne, Pennsylvania.
Married Delia Chapman (1798 - 1871) b: 16 Nov 1798 in Ashford, Connecticut, m: 11 Apr 1824 in Ashford, CT, by Edward Keyes, Justice of Peace, d: 05 Aug 1871 in Boyds Mills, PA; buried at Calkins Union Cemetery Children: 2.1: Joseph Wood (1825 - 1877) b: 12 Mar 1825 in Hartford, Connecticut, d: 17 Apr 1877 in about 2:00 pm, Darbytown, PA. Married Almira E. Mitchell (1828 - 1914) b: 15 May 1828 in Damascus, Wayne, PA, m: 17 May 1850 in Beech Lake, Wayne Co, PA, d: 23 Jun 1914 in Boyds Mills, Damascus, Wayne, PA. Children: 3.1 Effinger (S. E.) Wood (1851 - 1890) b: 10 Apr 1851 in Boyd's Mills, PA, d: 12 Feb 1890 in Home, Priceburg, Lackawanna Co., PA; Married Emma VanAuken m: 17 Nov 1882, d: Aft. 20 Feb 1890. 3.2 Clark Eugene Wood (1853 - 1915) b: 06 May 1853 in Boyd's Mills, PA, d: 13 Mar 1915 in Boyds Mills, PA; Married Augusta E. Noble (1864 - 1937) b: 11 Mar 1864 in Calkins, PA, m: 08 Nov 1882, d: 16 Mar 1937. 3.3 Josephine A. Wood (1854 - 1869) b: 31 Oct 1854, d: 11 Apr 1869 in Died at age 15, no children. 3.4 Joseph Wood (1856 - 1935) b: 31 May 1856 in Boyd's Mills, PA, d: 30 Aug 1935 in Binghamton, NY; Married Sabra Lassley (1858 - ) b: 26 Oct 1858 in PA, m: 26 Oct 1881. 3.5 Sketchley Metchlor Wood (1860 - 1879) b: 18 Mar 1860 in Boyd's Mills, PA, d: 03 Feb 1879 in Boyd's Mills, PA. 3.6 Mary Delia Wood (1861 - 1940) b: 02 Jun 1861 in Boyds Mills, Damascus, PA, d: 12 Jul 1940 in White Mills, Wayne Co., PA at her home; Married Warren Tyler [Leslie] Lassley (1854 - 1935) b: 07 Nov 1854 in New York, m: 15 Apr 1877 in Hawley Farm, Hawley, PA, d: 23 Dec 1935 in Scranton, Luzerne, PA at home of his daughter Sabra Lassley Cooke. 3.7 Mark (Marcus) Eli Wood (1863 - 1927) b: 23 Aug 1863 in Boyd's Mills, Damascus, PA, d: 27 Apr1927 in Owego, NY. Married Ella Sabrina Beck (1871 - ) b: 30 Jun 1871, m: 10 Jul 1884. 3.8 Nathaniel Lyon Wood (1865 - 1940) b: 23 Feb 1865 in Boyd's Mills, PA, d: 20 Nov 1940 in Waymart, Wayne Co., PA; Married Julia Etta Wilcox (1871 - 1920) b: 12 Jan 1871 in Boyds Mills, Wayne, PA, m: 26 Sep 1889 in M. E. Church, Narrowsburg, NY, d: 24 Apr 1920 in Scranton, Hospital, Scranton, PA. Children: 4.1 Forrest N Wood (1890 - 1945) b: 06 Jun 1890 in Pennsylvania, d: Apr 1945; Married Harriet Rosevear (1890 - 1979 ) b: 21 December 1890 in Havrigg, Cumberland, England, m: 15 Dec 1909, Wayne County, Pennsylvania, d. 23 Nov. 1979. Children: 5.1 Rhoda H Wood (1910 - ) b: 16 Nov. 1910 in Pennsylvania. married: John (Jack) Novitske 5.2 Beatrice Mae Wood, died in infancy 5.3 Carl Ivan Wood (1916 - ) b: 1916 in Pennsylvania. married 1: Marjorie 5.4 Dorrance N Wood (1920 - 1979) b: 18 Oct. 1920 in Pennsylvania. married 1: Helen Francis Harahus married 2: Myrtle Courtney 5.5 Dorothy W Wood (1922 - ) b: 2 Jan. 1922 in New York. married: Frederick Lane 5.5 B. Joyce Wood (1927 - 2013) b: 8 Dec. 2917 in Binghamton, New York; married Donald A. Wheeler. 3.9 Cora J. Wood (1867 - 1956) b: 07 Nov 1867 in Boyd's Mills, PA, d: 16 Oct 1956 in Wayne Memorial Hospital, Honesdale, PA, following a brief Illness; Married Lamando Decker (1865 - 1943) b: 13 Jul 1865 in Beach Pond, PA, m: 12 Sep 1888 in M. E. Church, Narrowsburg, NY by G. B. Stone, Witness Mrs. G. B. Stone, d: 1943. 3.10 John M. Wood (1873 - 1953) b: 22 Dec 1873 in Boyd's Mills, PA, d: 10 Oct,1953 in Scranton, PA; Married Alberta Wood (1878 - ) b: Jul 1878 in New Jersey. 2.2 Cynthia Maria Wood (1826 - 1890) b: 03 Sep 1826 in Ashford, Connecticut., d: 13 Dec 1890 in Wayne Co., PA; Married Moses Thomas Skinner (1820 - 1891) b: 13 Mar 1820 in Wayne, Pennsylvania, USA, m: 15 Jan 1846 in Wayne Co., PA, d: 28 Aug 1891 in Damascus, Wayne, Pennsylvania, USA. 2.3 Elijah Chapman Wood (1830 - 1830) b: 02 Dec 1830 in Ashford, Connecticut, d: 15 Dec 1830. 2.4 Clarkson Eugene Wood (1832 - 1860) b: 23 Oct 1832 in Ashford, CT, d: 18 Dec 1860 in Boyd's Mills, PA; Married Deborah A. Skinner (about 1837- about 1869) b: Abt. 1837, m: 25 Oct 1854 in Honesdale, PA by C. Stoddard, M.E.Church, d: Abt. 1869. |