When Ebenezer Wood was born on 25 November 1773, in Salem Center, Westchester, New York Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Ebenezer Wood, was 42 and his mother, Rachel Lockwood, was 34. He married Hannah Keeler on 6 June 1798, in Salem Center, Westchester, New York Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Lewisboro, Lewisboro, Westchester, New York, United States for about 10 years. He died on 7 January 1862, in Lewisboro, Westchester, New York, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Lewisboro, Westchester, New York, 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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