When Bertha A. Wood was born in March 1850, in Wisconsin, United States, her father, Alvin Wood, was 29 and her mother, Amanda Rogers, was 19. She married Charles Wesley Lowell on 22 March 1868, in Grant, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Rock Creek Township, Saunders, Nebraska, United States in 1880 and Richland Township, Saunders, Nebraska, United States for about 20 years. She died in 1933, in Lancaster, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 83.
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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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