Woods Family Cemetery
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This cemetery appears on maps as both Woods and Wood Cemetery near Windom .
Fannie Virginia Wood dau. of C.L.& C.A.Wood 1873-1874
This stone was located in a field there but the girl is buried in the
Windom Cemetery ;It is listed in the Floy Hodge Cemetery book and the local museum has it misplaced on their maps. It was a stone lost or alone placed in a field with no relation to a grave or the body moved and the a new stone placed in the Windom Cemetery , leaving the old one behind..
The Wood family made their way to Fannin County in the 1850s and 1860s from Kentucky, sometimes by detours into Arkansas or Alabama or Tennessee first. My mother, the late Katharine Louise Wood Hester, prepared a manuscript in my possession concerning her Wood family.
Fannie Virginia Wood was one of the Charles Leonard Wood children: Robert L.
Wood, Angus Whitfield Wood, Florence Wood, Fannie Virginia Wood, Charles H. Wood, and Jack M. Wood.
......Most of the Woods are buried in the main Honey Grove cemetery.
Charles Leonard Wood was a Civil War veteran who bought a farm near Windom
and settled there when he married Caroline Amanda Galbraith, the daughter of
Angus Galbraith of North Carolina (by way of KY).
