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IBD Editorial ^ | July 18, 2011 | The great THOMAS SOWELL

[Jude in WV]

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[Jude in WV]

Hi,
Thanks for the response to the pesty trial I’ve been enduring.

I hope you don’t mind, but I looked at your account, too. I see that you are into shape note singing. When I was young, a preacher, Rev. Jim Stanley, used to go around southern WV where I live teaching this to folks, young and old. I attended his classes and learned to read, play piano, and make joyful noises (I hesitate to call it singing) to my Lord. I really miss that kind of music.

I also saw on your link about the Watauga Assoc. I have been researching an ancestor, John Wood, of Bedford, Va. He was an Indian fighter. He left Bedford about 1773. He wrote a will naming his underage children 4 boys, John, Richard, Henry, Elijah and 4 girls, Elizabeth, Rachel, Agness, Milly/Mahala)and his wife, Agness, who was nicknamed Nelly (perhaps for Eleanor). I’m pretty sure Agness was the daughter of Abel Griffith of Augusta, VA.

John Wood fought in the Battle of Point Pleasant. After that, he was known to have bought land on the Nolachucky river, near Jonesboro, from Jacob Brown. Oral tradition is that while he was in the woods near his home there, gathering maple sap for syrup; he was attacked and killed by Indians. I don’t know where this tradition began. Some say it is recorded in the Wisconsin files of Lyman Draper. I haven’t been able to prove it. I did find his will recorded in Washington Co, TN at Jonesboro. There is no probate recorded that I have found.

I assume his wife and children were still in Bedford. I also assume these children were farmed out to Uncles as I find many Wood families living nearby in the census, but this was long before they recorded names and ages. I’ve found little clues to link all this together, but no proof. Do you know of anything about this John WOOD?

Thanks!