Electa Wood

Brief Life History of Electa

When Electa Wood was born on 15 July 1834, in Florence, Madison, Ohio, United States, her father, Gideon Durphy Wood, was 26 and her mother, Hannah Electa Daley, was 23. She married Isaac Bullock Sr. on 14 December 1856, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Utah, United States in 1870 and Utah, Utah, United States in 1900. She died on 15 August 1911, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Provo City Cemetery, Provo, Utah, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Isaac Bullock Sr.
1824–1891
Electa Wood
1834–1911
Marriage: 14 December 1856
Isaac Owen Bullock
1857–1916
Electa Bullock
1859–1887
Hannah Christina Bullock
1861–1942
Frances Eva Bullock
1867–1867
Ada Elizabeth Bullock
1869–1870
Nettie May Bullock
1872–1877
Gideon Owen Bullock
1875–1876
Abraham Owen Bullock
1878–1878
John Kimball BULLOCK
1882–1882

Sources (47)

  • Clesta Bullock, "United States Census, 1910"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Electa Wood - birth: 15 July 1834;
  • Electa Wood, "United States Western States Marriage Index"

World Events (8)

1836 · Remember the Alamo

Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.

1849

Historical Boundaries: 1849: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Utah, Utah, United States

1860 · Ohio supports the Union side of the Civil War

Although divided as a state on the subject of slavery, Ohio participated in the Civil War on the Union's side, providing over 300,000 troops. Ohio provided the 3rd largest number of troops by any Union state.

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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LIfe History of Isaac Bullock, Sr.

Isaac Bullock, Sr. was born October 23, 1825 at Grafton, Grafton Co., New Hampshire, not a great distance from where the prophet Joseph Smith was born about twenty years earlier. His father, Benjami …

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