Jefferson-Perry County AlArchives Biographies.....Wood, Morgan Marion August 13, 1853 - December 19, 1924
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Author: "History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography" by Thomas McAdory Owen and Marie Bankhead Owen 

WOOD, MORGAN MARION, Baptist minister, was born August 15, 1853, at what is now
Huffman, Jefferson County; son of Erasmus Perry and Eleanor Susan (Perkins)
Wood, the former a private in Co. C, 20th Alabama infantry regiment, C. S. Army;
grandson of Edmond and Stella (Cox) Wood, the former a native of Edgefield
District, S. C., who with his father removed to Jefferson County, and of William
and Precious Perkins, who lived at Trussville, Jefferson County; great-grandson
of Obadiah Wood, who was born and married in the north of Ireland, and moved to
America near the close of the eighteenth century. Rev. Mr. Wood received his
preparatory education in the schools of his neighborhood and entered Howard
college, Marion, November 1, 1877, retiring in his junior year, March 20, 1879.
He was ordained for the ministry, September, 1879, at what is now East Lake,
Jefferson County, and at once entered upon the service of the Baptist church. He
was a member of the board of education, Bessemer, 1891-92; secretary-treasurer,
board of education, Pratt City, 1893-97; secretary of Howard college, 1897;
statistical secretary Alabama State convention, 1892 to date; recording
secretary, 1905 to date; co-editor "Fayette Banner," Fayette, Fayette County,
1906. He is a Democrat and a Mason. Married: May 28, 1879, at Marion, Perry
County, to Janie Siggers, the foster daughter of William and Lon Fiquett of
Marion. Mrs. Wood's parents died when she was a child and no record of them is
preserved by their descendant. Children: 1. William Fiquett, deceased; 2. Janie
Davis, adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Wood, May 22 1895, b. April 10, 1893. Residence:
Repton.

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