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Author: History and Biography, Counties of White and Pulaski, Indiana

AARON WOOD was born in Guilford County, North Carolina, July 21, 1815, and is 
the eldest of the ten children born to Drury and Rodah (Shaw) Wood, both 
natives of Maryland. Drury Wood was a soldier in the war of 1812; he was a 
farmer and was married in Guilford County, where he resided until 1831, when 
he moved to Washington County, this State (Indiana), and in the spring of 1832 
to Tippecanoe County, where he bought 160 acres of wild land, which he 
improved, but sold in 1848, when he came to Princeton Township (White County 
Indiana) and bought a farm on which he ended his earthly career November 10, 
1856, a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Aaron Wood, at the age of 
sixteen, began working out by the month; in 1840, he went to Benton County 
(Indiana) and farmed on shares until the spring of 1846, when he came to 
Princeton Township and opened a general store; in 1847, he moved to Oxford, 
Benton County, and kept store until 1852, then kept store in Pine Village, 
Warren County, one year, returned to Princeton Township and engaged in farming 
and store-keeping until December, 1854, when he sold his farm and moved his 
store to Reynolds. In the fall of 1861, he enlisted in Company C, Forty-sixth 
Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and served until the close of his term of service, 
December, 1864. He took part in the battles of New Madrid, Riddle' Point, Fort 
Pillow, Memphis, St. Charles, Port Gibson, Champion Hill and Vicksburg. On his 
return to Reynolds, he re-embarked in mercantile trade, and is now dealing in 
groceries and hardware. He is a Democrat, and since 1865 has been Justice of 
the Peace, which office he also held four years before the war; he also was 
Postmaster four years before and one year after the war; His first wife 
(Margaret Sherry) bore him three children and died in the spring of 1852; in 
January, 1853, he married Mahala Hooker, who also bore him three children and 
died in 1858; in April, 1865, he married Nancy Paterson, who has borne him 
five children." 

Source: "History and Biography, Counties of White and Pulaski, Indiana." 
Historical and Biographical. Illustrated. Chicago; F. A. Battey & CO., 
Publishers. 1883. Honey Creek Township, White County, Indiana, page 302. 
 

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