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1796 - 1846 (50 years)
1759 - 1818 (59 years)
Birth |
1759 |
Died |
11 Dec 1818 |
Prince Edward County, Virginia |
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Family |
Elizabeth Spencer, b. 28 Oct 1761, Buckingham Co., Virginia Colony |
Married |
12 Dec 1780 |
Prince Edward Co., Virginia |
Children |
+ | 1. Elizabeth Crenshaw Davis, b. 20 Jul 1796, Prince Edward Co., Virginia |
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1761 - 1780 (18 years)
Birth |
28 Oct 1761 |
Buckingham Co., Virginia Colony |
Died |
18 Mar 1780 |
Prince Edward County, Virginia |
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Father |
Sharp Spencer, b. Est 1780, prob Prince Edward Co., Virginia |
Mother |
Sarah Anderson maybe, b. Est 1780, Prob Prince Edward Co., Virginia |
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Family |
Samuel Davis, b. 1759 |
Married |
12 Dec 1780 |
Prince Edward Co., Virginia |
Children |
+ | 1. Elizabeth Crenshaw Davis, b. 20 Jul 1796, Prince Edward Co., Virginia |
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1796 - 1846 (50 years)
Birth |
20 Jul 1796 |
Botetourt, County, Virginia |
Died |
1 Nov 1846 |
Botetourt, County, Virginia |
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Father |
Joseph Wood, b. Est 1755, Botetourt, County, Virginia |
Mother |
Mary Martha Epperson, b. Est 1760, Charlotte and Prince Edward County, Virginia Colony |
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Family |
Elizabeth Crenshaw Davis, b. 20 Jul 1796, Prince Edward Co., Virginia [1] |
Married |
10 Feb 1817 |
Prince Edward Co., Virginia |
Children |
+ | 1. Davis Morton Wood, b. 20 Sep 1819, Botetourt Co., Virginia |
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1819 - 1904 (85 years)
Birth |
20 Sep 1819 |
Botetourt Co., Virginia |
Died |
9 Nov 1904 |
Botetourt County, Virginia |
Buried |
Wood Family Cemetery, Botetourt County, Virginia |
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Father |
James H. Wood, b. 20 Jul 1796, Botetourt, County, Virginia |
Mother |
Elizabeth Crenshaw Davis, b. 20 Jul 1796, Prince Edward Co., Virginia |
Married |
10 Feb 1817 |
Prince Edward Co., Virginia |
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Family |
Sarah Eleanor Reynolds, b. 7 Nov 1823, Botetourt County, Virginia |
Married |
19 Oct 1844 |
Botetourt, Virginia |
Children |
| 1. Sarah Elizabeth Wood, b. 20 Oct 1845, Virginia |
| 2. James Archelius 'Jim' Wood, b. 1 Sep 1847, Botetourt County, Virginia |
| 3. Rev. Davis Miller Wood, b. 6 Aug 1850, Virginia |
| 4. Lucy Eleanor Wood, b. 23 Oct 1852, Glen Wilton, Virginia |
| 5. George Corbin Wood, b. 10 May 1855, Virginia |
+ | 6. William Edward 'Willie' Wood, b. 23 Mar 1858, Glen Wilton, Virginia |
| 7. Lelia Demaras/Demaris Wood, b. 7 Aug 1861, Botetourt County, VIrginia |
| 8. Robert Reynolds Wood, b. 19 Jan 1865, Virginia |
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Name |
Elizabeth Crenshaw Davis |
Born |
20 Jul 1796 |
Prince Edward Co., Virginia |
Gender |
Female |
Died |
15 Oct 1846 |
Botetourt, County, Virginia |
Person ID |
I18434 |
My Reynolds Line |
Last Modified |
26 Jun 2017 |
Father |
Samuel Davis, b. 1759, d. 11 Dec 1818, Prince Edward County, Virginia (Age 59 years) |
Mother |
Elizabeth Spencer, b. 28 Oct 1761, Buckingham Co., Virginia Colony , d. 18 Mar 1780, Prince Edward County, Virginia (Age 18 years) |
Married |
12 Dec 1780 |
Prince Edward Co., Virginia |
Family ID |
F6782 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Family |
James H. Wood, b. 20 Jul 1796, Botetourt, County, Virginia , d. 1 Nov 1846, Botetourt, County, Virginia (Age 50 years) |
Married |
10 Feb 1817 |
Prince Edward Co., Virginia |
Children |
+ | 1. Davis Morton Wood, b. 20 Sep 1819, Botetourt Co., Virginia , d. 9 Nov 1904, Botetourt County, Virginia (Age 85 years) |
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Last Modified |
26 Jun 2017 |
Family ID |
F6781 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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Sources |
- [S107] Family Histories, http://woodsandothers.net/r_no._pages/r250-r299/R266.html.
James Wood was born in Charlotte County, shortly before the family migrated to Botetourt County in the late eighteenth century. He was 24 and still single when his father died in 1814. Joseph Wood?s will [R900] left half of the home farm to James [tracts I1, J1, and J3 of Fig. R002c] and named him a coexecutor of the will. James and his brother Joseph Jr. were also left undivided shares of 450 acres of mountain land ?adjoining their own land which Thomas Wood is to make them a right to.? Presumably James dwelt in the log house that stood at the point labelled ?James Wood house?? in Fig. R002c. He may have built this himself, or inherited it from his father. The building that stood there was passed down through the generations of Woods, and unfortunately burned in May of 1994 (Fig. R253b).
In 1817 James married Elizabeth Crenshaw Davis of Prince Edward County. Elizabeth was the sister of Sarah A. Davis, who in 1816 had married James?s brother Thomas [R252]. James and Thomas and especially their wives were born too late to have known each other in Prince Edward County before Joseph and his family moved to Botetourt County; either the Woods maintained contact and friendship with their old neighbors back east over the years, or these were arranged marriages. (Again, maybe James met Elizabeth at Thomas and Sarah?s wedding.)
James and Elizabeth?s only child, Davis Morton Wood, was born in 1819. The 1820 census of Botetourt County lists the three of them plus 3 male slaves less than 14, 1 female slave less than 14, and 1 female slave between 14 and 25. The 1830 census registered the same three white people, but 18 slaves of all ages.
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 (see [R255]). [S083] has preserved letters James and Elizabeth wrote to Davis Morton in Fincastle, and they speak of nothing but religious matters and high expectations.
From the record in the Botetourt County deed books James appears not to have bought and sold land with the fervor many of his contemporaries did, instead steadily farming and improving the land he inherited. However, there is a contradiction to this in WPA of Virginia Historical Inventory No. 293 of Alleghany County, titled ?Wood-Tinsley Home.? The building referred to is or was about a mile SW of Low Moor Va., too far NW of Botetourt County to appear in Fig. R002c. It was a log cottage dating from ~1785-1790. According to the WPA report the building and associated property were sold by T. T. Anderson to Wood (no date given). Then it says that in 1837 James Wood deeded it to Douglas B. Payne (DB3-257), James Wood died intestate, and Davis M. Wood lived there till 1857. Continuing, in an 1857 Court Order Davis M. Wood deeded it to Edward P., William J., and Roderick M. Tinsley (DB5-542), etc. All this seems to be nonsense. However, DB3-257 turns out to be a deed in which on 5/16/1837 Douglas B. and Ann Layne gave (for $1) a tract of Alleghany County Rich Patch land, extending up to the crest of the mountain and the Botetourt County line, to James Wood of Botetourt County [S083]. The deed on the next page, DB3-258, has John T. and Cassandra Anderson similarly giving a tract of Rich Patch land to James Wood on 6/6/1837. Marginal notations on both deeds say ?lifted by D. M. Wood 19 Nov 1849? (i.e., after James?s death), so there is no question of this being a different James Wood. The tracts would have contained iron ore deposits (see [S099]). The two properties appear to have been transferred to James Wood as collateral on a loan.
James Wood died of typhoid fever at a young age (56). Elizabeth died 17 days before he did, of the same infectious disease. Their son wrote an obituary for both [S100] in which he describes their last hours; not surprisingly, the sentiments they expressed were entirely religious in character. It is thought they were buried in the Wood Family Cemetery near Glen Wilton, but no gravestones for them have survived. Recently stones for James and Elizabeth were placed on unmarked graves in the cemetery that are held by family tradition to be their resting places.
Sources: [S077, S083]
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