J Wood, I am a decendant from Missouri Wood Family of Flat River Area. Also please be advised that one of the best informative books on the Missouri/Kansas Border Wars is coming out in October. It is called ""Warfare On The Missouri/Kansas Border"", by Donald Gilmore of Belton, Missouri. Pelican Publishing is the Publisher and is now available through a varity of sourses, Walmart pre order and Border Books. I would be interested to find out your Wood Connection and how it might play into the Missouri in the Civil War saga. C. S. Nappier

Hello Thanks for the book info. I'll watch for it. I'm not familiar with Flat River area. Could you explain where that is, and a little about your Wood line? My Wood line in MO begins with John Claude (went by Claude) Wood, b. 1880, Bates Co, MO (my grandfather). He married Maude Blanche Hancock, daughter of the Green Theodore I have been posting quieries about. His dad, James Elbert Wood, b.1846, Athens, TN. James married Mary Bell/Belle Hancock-evidently a different Hancock line than my grandmother Maude Hancock Wood-as far as I have been able to determine. James' dad was John Wood, b. 1818 Washington Co, TN. This John Wood was a Union soldier during the civil war, was a prisoner at Cahaba, and was being transported back home on the Sultana steamboat. You can read about both these subjects online. The Sultana was transporting many of the prisioners being released, when it exploded. John was a survivor, having been rescued and treated for scalds. Gene E. Salecker wrote "Disaster on the Mississippi", if you're interested in a book on the subject, or you can go to Rootsweb Archives, and plug in Sultana, or disasters. I found Cahaba Prison simply by keying in Cahaba Prison on Yahoo search site. This John Wood was married to Mary Jane (went by Jane) McKeehan, b. 1838 Washington Co,TN. In fact, I only found info on John by looking for her after exhaustive searches for him. Gene's book mentions a James E. Wood, nephew of John as being with him in Cahaba and on the Sultana. I often wonder if it was his nephew, or possibly his son, My g-grandfather. He would have been old enough to have fought that war. Hopefully I will find information on that some time, one way or the other. I am not criticising Gene's account of the passengers. It was a very confusing time and records were not necessarily perfect. It's just that I haven't found a nephew by that name, but did find a son, so I'm just wondering. This Wood line came from England originally, to MA, then VA (Zebedee Wood), and came West fom there. If you think you're connected with this Wood line, I have some more info. Would like to hear about your Wood line. J Wood SEASNAPPIER@aol.com wrote: J Wood, I am a decendant from Missouri Wood Family of Flat River Area. Also please be advised that one of the best informative books on the Missouri/Kansas Border Wars is coming out in October. It is called ""Warfare On The Missouri/Kansas Border"", by Donald Gilmore of Belton, Missouri. Pelican Publishing is the Publisher and is now available through a varity of sourses, Walmart pre order and Border Books. I would be interested to find out your Wood Connection and how it might play into the Missouri in the Civil War saga. C. S. Nappier ==== MO-CW Mailing List ==== To unsubscribe from this list, send ONLY the word UNSUBSCRIBE to the utility address MO-CW-L-REQUEST@ROOTSWEB.COM If you are trying to unsubscribe from the Digest list, use the same utility address but change the -L- to a -D- ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx --------------------------------- Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page