Mary Wallace Davis, wife of Matthew J. Wood
16. Matthew J.3 Wood (Brewer2, James1) was born in Russelville, Logan County, Kentucky February 3, 1816. Matthew died April 12, 1886 in Plattsburg, Winston County, Mississippi. His body was interred at Wood Cemetery in Winston Co, MS.
He married Mary Wallace Davis July 2, 1845 in Coffeeville, Yallobusha Co, MS. Mary was born June 15, 1829 in South Carolina. Mary was the daughter of Levi Davis and Martha Burkhead. Mary died November 23, 1907 in Winston Co, MS. Her body was interred at Wood Cemetery in Winston Co, MS.
Matthew was listed in a muster roll August 25, 1862 in Louisville, Winston Co, MS. Matthew J. Wood joined Co. F, 5th Regiment Mississippi State Troops. He was a private and was at the fall of Vicksburg in 1863. He was mustered into the confederate Army at Louisville, Winston Co, MS on August 25, 1862, however, he was absent from the Company's muster roll from September 30, 1862 to February 28, 1863. Upon his return, he was pardoned by the order of Gen. Harris on May 6, 1863 and was captured at Vicksburg, MS on July 4, 1863. As the paper work looks, it appears he was released (pardoned) on July 10, 1863. It may be coincidental, but his son, Dock Wood, was born during his absence from his duties in the Civil War. The story goes that when Brewer Wood died, Mrs. Rebecca Dulin Wood was going to move his family to live with said Perry G. Wood in Green County, Illinois. Matthew J. Wood evidently did not want to go to Illinois, so one morning when he went to feed, he took his clothes and hid them beyond the barn and after he fed the stock, he went back to the house, ate his breakfast, got his clothes and left home. He later confided to one of his daughters, Mrs. Ida Hasseltine Wood Smith, that he ran away from home instead of telling his people that he was going because he did not want to see his mother cry. The first history of any record of Matthew J. Wood in Mississippi was when he lived in Grenada, then in Yalabousha County. He was a carpenter. In 1845, Matthew J. Wood bought 80 acres of land in Yalabousha County, Section 19-T-22N, R7E. In 1849, he sold this land and with wife and three children, started to Gulfport, Mississippi. In 1849, Matthew and Mary Davis Wood (with their three oldest children) on their way to the Mississippi coast, pitched camp at the Woodward Mill Spring and that night they were contacted by Nathaniel Woodward, who had a 99 year lease on Section 16, T-13, R-10-E, Winston County, Mississippi. Matthew Wood went with Nathaniel Woodward to look over the land and bought Woodward's interest in the entire 640 acre tract. This land was purchased on December 11, 1849. Matthew J. Wood bought his place near the Robinson Road, which was an old stagecoach road from Columbus to Jackson, and was a terminus for five mail routes. Before establishment of the county seat, a stage route operated over Robinson Road. Three stands or relays were on that road. One was at the site known as Smallwood Hills, so called because a man named Smallwood was killed and buried there. In 1840, stage coaches ran regularly from Huntsville, Alabama to Columbus and through the southeast part of Oktibbeha County into Winston County and through to Jackson. In 1846, a telegraph line was built from Columbus to Jackson and followed Robinson Road into Louisville.
Matthew J. Wood and Mary Wallace Davis had the following children:
41 i. Levi Aaron4 Wood was born March 26, 1847.
42 ii. John Burkhead Wood was born in Coffeeville, Yallobusha Co, MS May 8, 1848. John died June 26, 1865 in Mississippi. His body was interred at Wood Cemetery in Winston Co, MS. John died at a syrup mill in Mississippi.
43 iii. Martha Rebecca Wood was born in Coffeeville, Yallobusha Co, MS August 9, 1849. Martha died August 16, 1856. Her body was interred at Wood Cemetery in Winston Co, MS.
44 iv. Josephine C. Wood was born January 18, 1851.
William Alexander Wood
45 v. William Alexander Wood was born April 11, 1852.
Jefferson Davis Wood and wife Ann Keen
46 vi. Jefferson Davis Wood was born November 13, 1853.
47 vii. Marmaduke (Duke) Wood was born in Plattsburg, Winston County, Mississippi February 5, 1855. Marmaduke died April 15, 1920. His body was interred at an unknown cemetery in McComb, Pike Co, MS. Never married.
48 viii. Roseanna Venetta Wood was born May 10, 1856.
Charles Crittendon Wood
49 ix. Charles Crittendon Wood was born in Plattsburg, Winston County, Mississippi August 2, 1857. He married Mary Elizabeth Crosby September 11, 1874 in Winston Co, MS. Mary was born 1856 in Chester Co, SC. Mary was the daughter of Charles Baxter Crosby and Elizabeth Hannah Otis. Mary died July 5, 1891 in San Antonio, TX. Her body was interred at Damon Mound Cemetery in San Antonio, Bexar Co, TX. Charles Crittendon Wood and Mary Elizabeth Crosby had three (3) little girls at the time of her death and they were placed in an orphan's home, probably in San Antonio. She gave birth to a son on 4 July 1891 and died the next day. Charles further mentioned in a letter (dated 31 August 1891) to his mother about another son in the hospital that was very ill at the time.
50 x. Robert Walker Wood was born January 11, 1859.
Orra Alice Wood
51 xi. Orra Alice Wood was born November 14, 1861.
Doctor Elias Rubin Harrel James (Dock) Wood
52 xii. Doctor Elias Rubin Harrel James Jenkins (Dock) Wood was born February 6, 1863.
53 xiii. Wiley Lee Wood was born in Plattsburg, Winston County, Mississippi February 11, 1865. Wiley died 1941. His body was interred at Masonic Cemetery in Winston Co, MS. He married Mary E. (Mollie) Woodward December 18, 1904 in Winston Co, MS. Mary was born 1857. Mary died 1939. Her body was interred at Masonic Cemetery in Winston Co, MS. Wiley was previously thought to be Wesley.
54 xiv. Albert Gallatin (Brown) Wood was born in Plattsburg, Winston County, Mississippi April 24, 1866. His body was interred at Lena (South) Cemetery or Shockal in Leake Co, MS. He married Nannie A. Scott December 18, 1884 in Leake Co, MS. Nannie was born.
55 xv. Charity Melzana (Sis) Wood was born January 15, 1867.
56 xvi. George Gordon Wood was born September 18, 1868.
Ida Hasseltine Wood
57 xvii. Ida Hasseltine Wood was born November 7, 1870.
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