Samuel Wood

3 July 1805–19 September 1863 (Age 58)
Halifax, Windham, Vermont, United States

The Life of Samuel

When Samuel Wood was born on 3 July 1805, in Halifax, Windham, Vermont, United States, his father, Samuel Wood, was 44 and his mother, Hildah Cole, was 25. He married Polly Alvord in 1826, in Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 10 daughters. He lived in Smithfield Township, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States for about 10 years. He died on 19 September 1863, at the age of 58, and was buried in Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Family Time Line

Samuel Wood
1805–1863
Polly Alvord
1804–1872
Marriage: 1826
Adeline Wood
1824–
Marietta Wood
1827–1878
Thomas Wood
1840–1840
Charles Thompson Wood
1829–1900
Jane Wood
1831–1861
Cornelia M. wood
1832–1882
Emma Wood
1837–1863
Polly Wood
1839–1863
James Wood
1842–
Elizabeth Wood
1843–1849
Sarah Wood
1844–
Allen Wood
1847–
Ellen Wood
1848–
Frank Wood
1854–
Elizabeth Wood
1856–

Spouse and Children

MARRIAGE
1826
Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States
children

(15)

    Adeline Wood

    Female1824–Female

    Marietta Wood

    Female1827–1878Female

    Charles Thompson Wood

    Male1829–1900Male

    Jane Wood

    Female1831–1861Female

    Cornelia M. wood

    Female1832–1882Female

+10 More Children

Parents and Siblings

siblings

(13)

    Samuel Wood

    Male1805–1863Male

    Barnard Wood

    Male1806–1852Male

    Barnard Wood

    Male1806–1852Male

    Eunice Wood

    Female1808–1844Female

    Eunice Wood

    Female1808–1891Female

+8 More Children

World Events (8)

1808

Age 3

Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1812 · Harrisburg Becomes the State Capital

Age 7

Harrisburg had important parts with migration, the Civil War, and the Industrial Revolution. 
1821 · Financial Relief for Public Land

Age 16

A United States law to provide financial relief for the purchasers of Public Lands. It permitted the earlier buyers, that couldn't pay completely for the land, to return the land back to the government. This granted them a credit towards the debt they had on land. Congress, also, extended credit to buyer for eight more years. Still while being in economic panic and the shortage of currency made by citizens, the government hoped that with the time extension, the economy would improve.

Name Meaning

English and Scottish:1. mainly a topographic name for someone who lived in or by a wood or a metonymic occupational name for a woodcutter or forester, from Middle English wode ‘wood’ (Old English wudu). 2. nickname for a mad, eccentric, or violent person, from Middle English wōd ‘mad’, ‘frenzied’ (Old English wād), as in Adam le Wode, Worcestershire 1221 .

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

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Sources (3)

  • Samuel Wood, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Samuel Wood, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Samuel Wood, "Vermont Vital Records, 1760-1954"

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