LDS film # 09962913, Excerpts from History of Kentucky, Illustrated, 1885, by
Battle, Perrin, and Kniffin.  Appeared in the Central City Messenger and
Times-Argus, Central City, Kentucky, in seven installments during May, June,
and July 1959.

John Wood Was A Republican Baptist Farmer-Lumberman in County in 1883

JOHN H. WOOD, a native of Muhlenberg County, was born May 4, 1846.  His
father, Zilman Wood, was also a native Kentuckian, a farmer and a boatman.  He
died in 1858, aged sixty years; his widow, Mary (Kirtley) Wood, of Muhlenberg
County, still survives him, aged fifty-nine years; she was born in 1826; her
children were seven in number, four are living: James W., Elias, Sarah E. and
John H.  After the death of his father, John H. remained with his mother, and
worked on the farm for her support, until after the close of the war in 1865.
On the 25th of October, of that year, he married Mattie B., a daughter of
William H. and Melissa C. Summons, of Muhlenberg County; she was born March
22, 1846.  One daughter, Ida, a young lady of seventeen, is their only child.
Mr. Wood, in early life received a good education.  After marriage he bought
240 acres of land in the county of Muhlenberg, and continued farming, in
connection with the log and lumber trade, in which he has been very
successful.  He is an energetic man of business; his farm and buildings are
amoung the best of this section; his dwelling, an excellently built frame, is
the work of his own hands, he having acquired the carpenter and joiner's
trader, which he followed duriing the Rebellion.  Mr. Wood is a Republican; he
has no political aspirations.  He is a member of the Baptist faith, while his
wife and daughter are members of the Methodist Church.  Mr. Wood is an
advocate of the temperance cause, though his views on the subject are not
severe.

Wood Kirtley Summons
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