Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 2nd ed., 1885, Muhlenberg Co. JOHN H. WOOD, a native of Muhlenburgh 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 Muhlenburgh 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 Muhlenburgh 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 Muhlenburgh, 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 = none http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/muhlenberg/wood.jh2.txt