Jacob Eleazer Wood Family Bible Records, Washington Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Edie McKinney Talley
Transcribed by Ken Baughman


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Source:  Bible Records:  Copied and compiled by: Zuma F. Magee,
Franklinton, LA., and Thelma S. Bateman, Baton Rouge, LA.  1964 


Wood Bible, pages 47 and 48.

Original Owner:  Jacob Eleazer Wood and Emma Florence Jones Wood.
Present Owner:  Mrs. Myrtle Wood McCormick (a daughter), Baton Rouge, La.
Copied:  April 1963 by Mrs. John C. Copes III, Baton Rouge, La.

The first pages of the Bible are missing, but it is a Hitchcock Analysis
Bible.  The record pages are loose in the Bible.

Births:

Mary Almira was born March 31st, 1882.
Marvin Emmet Wood was born May 13th, 1884.
Wiley Morgan Wood was born August 13, 1886.
Robert Memnon Wood was born Dec. 10th A D 1888.
Willie Ezekiel Wood was born Feb. 7th A D 1891.
Houston Lewis Wood was born May 26th A D 1893.
Milford Jacob Wood was born July first A D 1896.
Myrtle Wood was born July 1st, 1896.
Infant Son born Feb. 27th, 1899.

(Another page):
Morgan E. Wood was born Feb. 11th, 1835.
Mary A. T. Simmons was born June 12th, 1838.
Jacop (Jacob) Eleazer was born July 12th, 1858.
John W. E. Wood was born Nov. 25th, A D 1859.
A. D. Wood was born March 25th, A D 1861.

(Different handwriting):
Josephine Irene, daughter of J. E. & Emma F. Wood born Dec. 3rd, 1900

Marriages:

Morgan E. Wood and Mary A. T. Simmons were married October 8th, 1851.
Jacob Eleazer Wood and Emma Florence Jones were married January 13th, 1881.

Deaths:

Mary A. T. Simmons, wife of Morgan E. Wood departed this life June 21, 
A D 1861.

W.  E. Simmons departed this life Feb. 23rd A D 1863.
John W. E. Wood departed this life Dec. 23rd A D 1860.
Ann D. Wood departed this life August A D 1861.

Marriage:  (In pencil and different handwriting)
Miss Almira Wood married Gordon W. Godbee.

"Funeral Notice" - laying loose in the Bible with the Record Sheets.

"Geo. W. Burton died 7:30 P. M.  Funeral at the Dormitory of Franklinton
Central Institute, by Rev. C. T. Corkern - 2:30 P. M. today, Wednesday,
burial in Ellis Graveyard. by Charles A. Magee."