MILES LAFAYETTE WOOD

Concho Resident Last 27 years Buried Thursday
    Paint Rock, June- Miles LaFayette Wood, resident here since 1906, was buried in the local cemetery this afternoon, services being conducted from the Presbyterian Church with the Rev. L. D. Hardt, Methodist minister, officiating. Mr. Wood died here at 9 o'clock Wednesday night after and illness of several days. He was 79 years old.
   Mr. Wood first settled in Texas in Bell county, residing there a number of years before coming to Concho county in 1906. He was firs t married to Miss Turissa Wooley, who died in 1911. In 1916 he was married to Mrs. Bettie Tomerlin. Two daughters, Mrs. Eva Nelson of Moody and Mrs. Elmer Tharp of San Angelo, and a son Austin Wood, of Paint Rock, survive. There are also two brothers, J. H. of Zephyr, Texas, and T. P. of Paris, Tenn. and a sister, Mrs. Bettie Smith of Gleason, Texas, and four grandchildren.

San Angelo Times
June 2, 1933