Biographical Sketch of Isom Wood, Laclede County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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Isom Wood, stock farmer of Osage township, was born in Tennessee in 
1832, and is the son of James and Sarah (Davis) Wood, both natives of
South Carolina.  They came to Tennessee with their parents when child-
ren, and grew to maturity in that state.  They were married there, and
when Isom Wood was a small boy they moved to Indiana, settling in 
Gibson county, where they remained until 1854.  They then came to 
Stoddard county, Mo., where they purchased land, etc.  He was a soldier
in the War of 1812, and led a very active life as a farmer.  He died in
1864 at the age of sixty-nine years.  The mother died in May, 1863, at
the age of sixty-four.  To their union were born twelve children, all
of whom lived to be grown, and four are now living.  Isom Wood was the
seventh child in order of birth, and remained at home until twenty-five
years of age, when he married, in March, 1857, Miss Fannie M. Bollinger
who was born and reared in Stoddard county, Mo., and who is the daugh-
ter of Frederick and Margaret Bollinger, natives of North Carolina. 
Her parents came to Missouri when she was a child, and located in Stod-
dard county, where Mrs. Wood grew to womanhood.  By this union Mr. and
Mrs. Wood became the parents of eight children, three of whom are 
deceased: Albert L., Henry, Richard, Margaret (wife of George Simpson)
and Julia A. (at home).  Albert and Henry are married, and live in
Laclede county, Mo.  Mr. Wood and wife are members of the Baptist 
church, and he is a member of the Masonic fraternity.  He is a Democrat
in politics, and is at present postmaster at Drynob Post-Office, he
being appointed in 1881.  After his marriage Mr. Wood settled on the
home place, where he remained until after the death of his parents, 
when he sold his interest and moved to Texas in 1867.  He returned to
Arkansas the following year, and after a residence of about one year in
that state moved to Stoddard county, Mo., and then to Laclede county,
two years later.  Here he has since resided.  He served in the State
Militia six months under Jeff. Thompson, and during the latter part of
the war he served in the Enrolled Militia for three months, when Gen.
Price was making his raid in Southern Missouri.  He was wounded at
Belmont, Mo., while on duty.

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