Cherokee County AlArchives Biographies.....Wood, B. F. December 13 1843 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   B. F. WOOD, the eldest of the family of eight children born to Richard W. and
Ludicia (Tucker) Wood, is a native of Cherokee county, Ala., and was born
December 13, 1843, at Round Mountain. The father, Richard W., was born in
Spartanburg, S. C., but when a young man went to Newton county, Ga., where he
passed several years. In 1840 he came to Alabama and taught school in Cherokee,
Tallapoosa and Talladega counties, but finally settled near the place where his
son B. F., now has his residence. He was first married in Talladega county,
Ala., to a Miss Childers, who bore him two children - one of whom, Georgia A.,
is now Mrs. Prince, of Bell county, Tex. His second marriage took place in
Cherokee county Ala., to Miss Ludicia Tucker, and this union was blessed by the
birth of eight children, in the following order: B. F., with whose name this
paragraph is started; Mary C., married to William Arthur, of Lookout Mountain,
Cherokee county, Ala.; Sarah A., wife of James Vaughn, also of Lookout Mountain;
Reuben T. Wood, Cherokee county, Ala.; James W., of Gaylesville, Ala.; Malvina,
now Mrs. Henry Cox, of Lookout Mountain; Alabama C., wife of John McEnery, of
the same place, and John Forrest, deceased. The father of this family followed
school teaching as a vocation and was well known throughout the county; he was a
whig in politics and in religion a Methodist, in which faith he died in June,
1870; his widow still resides in Cherokee county. B. F. Wood was quite a young
man when the Civil war broke forth, but, fired with patriotic ardor, he at once
enlisted in company B, of Forrest's cavalry, and served throughout the conflict
until taken prisoner. His first engagement was at Greenville, Ky.; he was also
in the Fort Donelson fight, but made his escape when the garrison surrendered;
he was accidentally shot in the foot just before the battle of Shiloh opened,
and on recovering joined Gen. Joe Wheeler's cavalry at Columbia, Tenn.; took
part in the battle of Shelbyville, where with 1,000 others, he was taken
prisoner and sent to Louisville, thence to Camp Chase, Ohio, to Fort Delaware,
to Point Lookout, and finally to Elmira, N. Y., where he was confined until
after peace had been declared - his detention lasting from the date of his
capture, June 27, 1863, until his release June 18, 1865. Since the close of the
war Mr. Wood has resided on his farm of 340 acres, three miles northwest of
Ceder Bluff, and the tidiness and general appearance of the place give evidence
that he knows how to manage it. In politics Mr. Wood is a solid democrat and is
active in his work for the welfare of that party and has the full confidence of
its members. In 1884 he was elected county-tax collector and served one term of
four years; in 1892 he was the nominee on the straight democratic ticket for
probate judge, but was defeated. by a coalition. He is a master Mason, a member
of Gaylesville lodge, No. 256; he is also a steward in the Methodist Episcopal
church, south, Mr. Wood was happily married, November 22, 1868, to Miss Sarah E.
Dean, who has borne him nine children, of whom five are living, viz.: Florence
E., John F., Dora M., Minnie H., and Hoyt Mc.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 641-642

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