When Dorcas Ingabo Wood was born on 2 February 1858, in Asheville, Buncombe, North Carolina, United States, her father, Andrew Jackson Wood, was 41 and her mother, Jane Plemmons Henderson, was 38. She married Ascue Carson Queen on 31 October 1878, in Jackson, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Sylva, Jackson, North Carolina, United States in 1920 and Webster, Jackson, North Carolina, United States for about 10 years. She died on 5 June 1956, in Jackson, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 98, and was buried in Tuckasegee, Jackson, North Carolina, United States.
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English: mainly a topographic name for someone who lived in or by a wood, from Middle English wode ‘wood’ (Old English wudu). In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, such as French Bois and Polish Les .
English: in a few cases, a nickname for an eccentric or perhaps a violent person, from Middle English wode ‘frenzied, wild’ (Old English wōd).
Americanized form of French Gadbois .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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