Dearest Cousin Phil, You are not allowed to be descended from these folks - you and I are already so related you're at the top of my list if I ever need a kidney transplant - right next to Judy & Shawna. Rachel is the dtr of Thomas Bracken(1800-1880) & Elizabeth Kitchen (1808-?). Her folks are buried at Bracken Cemetery. Rachel was born 27SEP1834 and died 13JUN1910, is buried at Wood cemetery in Gloucester and her cemetery record in Montieth's book is wrong (imagine that), so use mine. John was born in 1848 and I have yet to figure out which Woods he came out of. Family Bible records show that he was murdered with his son 19FEB1900. Had to do a little door knocking to find the specifics. There are several different versions of the story but basically, John & son "Mess" went to Tennessee (Either to escape person looking to kill son or to find work). Someone came to the house and killed "Mess". John was caught in the crossfire and received a bullet in the knee and died from the resulting infection soon after. Both are buried in Tennessee. Some rumors suggest Mess had irritated someone over a Civil War issue. But, the murderer was a previously convicted murderer who was fresh out of prison for killing the last guy. J.B. McCall actually went to Tennessee to get the specifics and found the grave, name of murderer, court records etc. Daughter Mary Loucinda married Baxter Owen in Ninive - They are buried at Mtn View Bapt Church in Gloucester. Their dtr Margaret married James Estes Hoxit (Starting to sound familiar). Margaret & Estes are my great grandparents and are buried at holly Spring Baptist Church in Henderson County. Son Thomas married "Bell" Hoxit. Thomas was a hugh man known to appreciate his liquor a bit much. He had one of the first pick-up trucks in the area. Grandpa got a ride with him once and says the bed of the truck was about the size of a wheelbarrow. Thomas & Bell are buried up at Wood cemetery, too. BTW - Do you know where Ninive is? Didn't think so. It took me three months of roaming Gloucester to find someone old enough to remember. Keitha Reid, postmistress and general matriarch of Balsam Grove couldn't even tell me, though she did mention that someone else had once asked about it. Emmett Moore, the oldest man in the community at age 88 was able to tell me. He also remembered Baxter Owen, as Baxter was "the first dead person I ever saw". Ninive was a small community on Tannassee Gap Road almost to the Jackson County line. Philip Sheppard wrote: > Evening Rooters, > > I need the stats (birth/death/places/cemetery) on John B. Wood and his wife > Rachel Bracken, parents of Mary Lucinda Wood (b. 1863) and Thomas J. Wood > (b. 1872). > > Thanks, > > Philip Sheppard > Beaufort, South Carolina -- Linda Hoxit Raxter lraxter@citcom.net See Indexed Western North Carolina Cemetery Surveys http://www.geocities.com/~alextreehouse related to at least half the county - at least once ; )