Seth H Wood

6 April 1882–3 February 1941 (Age 58)
Beaver City, Furnas, Nebraska, United States

The Life Summary of Seth H

When Seth H Wood was born on 6 April 1882, in Beaver City, Furnas, Nebraska, United States, his father, Hiram S. Wood, was 33 and his mother, Arvilla McNeil, was 27. He married Nettie Edna Perkins on 2 May 1906, in Beaver City, Furnas, Nebraska, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Eureka Township, Furnas, Nebraska, United States in 1885. He died on 3 February 1941, in Corvallis, Benton, Oregon, United States, at the age of 58, and was buried in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States.

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Family Time Line

Seth H Wood
1882–1941
Nettie Edna Perkins
1887–1963
Marriage: 2 May 1906
Helen Marie Wood
1911–1982
Harold Maurice Wood
1914–1991
Berniece Evelyn Wood
1917–2004

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World Events (8)

1886
Age 4
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1886 · Giving Working Men a Union
Age 4
The largest union group in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. It still exists today but merged with The Congress of Industrial Organization.
1898 · War with the Spanish
Age 16
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.

Name Meaning

(1997: 98424;2007: 188644; 2010: 250715)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).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

Possible Related Names

Woode
Bois
Woods

Sources (19)

  • Seth H Wood in entry for Harold Maurice Wood, "Washington, County Birth Registers, 1873-1965"
  • Seth Wood in household of Hiram Wood, "Nebraska State Census, 1885"
  • Seth H Wood in entry for Lewis J Mc Reynolds and Helen Marie Wood, "Washington, County Marriages, 1855-2008"

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