Brief Life History of Daniel Cotton
When Daniel Cotton Wood was born on 27 January 1847, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, his father, Daniel Wood, was 46 and his mother, Peninah Shropshire Cotton, was 19. He married Elizabeth Waddoups on 8 February 1869, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. He immigrated to Deseret, Millard, Utah, United States in 1868. He died on 9 June 1934, in Thomas, Bingham, Idaho, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Riverside Thomas Cemetery, Blackfoot, Bingham, Idaho, United States.
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- Daniel Cotton Wood, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
- Legacy NFS Source: Daniel Cotton Wood - Church record: Birth record or certificate: birth-name: Daniel T. Wood
- Daniel Woods, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
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1848
Historical Boundaries: 1848: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Davis, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Davis, Utah, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
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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Daniel Cotton Wood
LIFE SKETCH OF DANIEL COTTON WOOD Daniel Cotton Wood, the eldest child of seven, is the son of Daniel and Peninah Cotton Wood. He was born in Pottawattamie Co., Iowa, at “Winter Quarters.” on the 27 …
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