When John Long Wood was born on 7 November 1881, in Tennessee, United States, his father, Benjamin Stewart Wood, was 37 and his mother, Emma Rhoda Gray, was 25. He married Mary Ruth Phillips on 12 February 1907. He lived in Cleveland, Bradley, Tennessee, United States in 1900 and Civil District 1, Bradley, Tennessee, United States in 1940. He died on 2 June 1948, in Bradley, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Cleveland, Bradley, Tennessee, 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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