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James H. WOOD + Elizabeth Crenshaw DAVIS

Children  ‎(1 child)‎
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Rev. Davis Morton WOOD ‎(I5549)‎
Birth 20 November 1819 29 23 -- Botetourt County, Virginia, USA
Death 9 November 1904 ‎(Age 84)‎ -- Botetourt County, Virginia, USA

Parents Grandparents
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James H. WOOD ‎(I1280)‎
Birth 20 June 1790 46 45 -- Charlotte County, Virginia, USA
Death 1 November 1846 ‎(Age 56)‎ -- Botetourt County, Virginia, USA
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Joseph B. WOOD ‎(I1155)‎
Birth circa 1744 32 30 -- England
Death 1816 ‎(Age 72)‎ -- Botetourt County, Virginia, USA
F444
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Martha EPPERSON ‎(I1154)‎
Birth circa 1745 -- Virginia, USA
Death before 1810 ‎(Age 65)‎ -- Botetourt County, Virginia, USA

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Elizabeth Crenshaw DAVIS ‎(I1294)‎
Birth 20 July 1796 40 34 -- Prince Edward County, Virginia, USA
Death 15 October 1846 ‎(Age 50)‎ -- Botetourt County, Virginia, USA
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Samuel DAVIS ‎(I8543)‎
Birth 1756 -- Virginia, USA
Death 8 January 1818 ‎(Age 62)‎ -- Prince Edward County, Virginia, USA
F2960
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Elizabeth SPENCER ‎(I8544)‎
Birth 28 October 1761 -- Virginia, USA
Death 18 March 1850 ‎(Age 88)‎ -- Prince Edward County, Virginia, USA


Family Group Information   (F505)
Marriage 2 October 1817 Prince Edward County, Virginia, USA

Biographical Notes

Hide Details Note: In 1817 James married Elizabeth Crenshaw David. Elizabeth was the sister of Sarah A. Davis, who in 1816 had married James' brother Thomas. James and Elizabeth's only child David Morton Wood was born in 1819.

James and Elizabeth were deeply religious, as many people were in that era. They sent their son to the Botetourt Seminary in Fincastle, grooming him for the ministry.

James Wood died of typhoid fever at a young age ‎(56)‎. Elizabeth died 17 days before he did, of the same disease. Their son wrote an obituary for both in which he describes their last hours;...entirely religious ‎[sentiments]‎.

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