When Avery Asbery Wood was born on 15 September 1820, in Kentucky, United States, his father, John W Wood, was 56 and his mother, Sarah J Kindrick, was 51. He married Matilda J. Ray on 6 July 1838, in Marshall, Clark, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Lincoln Township, Ringgold, Iowa, United States in 1880 and Lost Nation, Clinton, Iowa, United States in 1880. He died on 11 September 1901, in Sabula, Jackson, Iowa, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Buckhorn, Jackson, Iowa, United States.
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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.
The Louisville and Portland canal opened in 1830. It was a 2 mile canal. It helped with the barrier caused by the Falls of the Ohio River at Louisville by making a route around them.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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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