THOMAS BOUCHER WOOD FAMILY CEMETERY

 According to family history Thomas Boucher Wood (1820-1879) was born in 
Columbus, Mississippi. He attended the University of Louisville in Kentucky in 
1843 and again in 1849, at which time he received his doctoral degree in 
medicine with a thesis on pneumonia.
 Soon thereafter Dr. Wood came to this area to farm and practice medicine. 
he and Susan Amanda Pinson (1833-1873) were married in July 1850. Susan's 
family were among the earlier pioneers of nearby Mound Prairie in Anderson County.
 The Wood family cemetery is a testament to the harsh conditions of pioneer 
life. It was established in 1851 when Thomas and Susan's first child, a daughter 
was stillborn. Family records indicate that she was buried on the homestead. 
Thomas and Susan Wood had ten children. Their daughter Josephine (1858-1863) 
was the next family member to be interred here. The following year the Woods' 
son, John Felix (1862-1864), died and Susan Amanda Wood miscarried a daughter 
on the same day. Another unnamed infant girl was stillborn in 1873. T. B. Wood and 
their son, Albert (1853-1879), both succumbed to pneumonia on Albert's twenty-sixth 
birthday. another daughter Tommie Elizabeth Wood Pelham (1856-1884) was buried 
here next to her four infants. Some of the Wood family slaves are believed to have 
been buried just outside the family plot.
 In the late 1990s, Wood descendants returned to the site and restored the cemetery. 
It serves as a memorial to the Wood family pioneers of Henderson County.