Wood Family

Contributed by Linda Wood Parrish
November 2000

 

Walter WOOD and Ada COOLEY WOOD were married in 1892 in Mississippi.
They moved to Ellis County, TX about 1896 and lived on a farm near Maypearl
for many years where they reared the following children:

Inez (Mrs. Floyd Elton SMITH) 1893-1976
LeRoy 1896-1922 (my grandfather) He married Willie Lois SHELTON in 1916.
Vernis Galbert ("Jay") 1898-1941
Herman Otto 1903-1949
Walter Odell b. 1906
Claude 1908-1976
Harold (twin) 1915-1916
James Hayden (twin) 1915-1962
Iva Nell (Mrs. William H. SELZER) 1916-1994
Jack 1921-1972.

 

LeRoy, Jay, and Inez ca 1900

Birthday card to Hayden from his class.

It reads:

To: James Hayden Wood
From: Baptist Sunday School
Maypearl, Texas

 

Walter and Ada WOOD

on their farm near Maypearl
ca 1928

 


 

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