I'll have to check when I get home tonight, there are so many of them.... >From: "Carolyn Bruce" <cdhbruce@cox.net> >Reply-To: VAPATRIC-L@rootsweb.com >To: VAPATRIC-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [VAPATRICK] Alexander Wood 1831-1907 >Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 14:32:19 -0500 > >Truman, would you be related to the Henry WOOD who m. Sarah RAKES, dau. >Samuel Jackson RAKES, Jr., and Ruth THOMAS? > >Carolyn HALE BRUCE >Co-author, Rebel King, Hammer of the Scots >and Rebel King, The Har'ships >http://www.RebelKing.com >Author, Virginiana, A Visitors' Guide to Virginia History and Other Stuff >http://www.VirginianaBooks.com >Available now at www.JonesArt.com: Herb Jones, >Poet With a Paintbrush by Barbara Jones Jones >----- Original Message ----- From: "Truman Adkins" ><trumanadkins@hotmail.com> >To: <VAPATRIC-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 1:55 PM >Subject: [VAPATRICK] Alexander Wood 1831-1907 > > >Recently my sister posted some of our family photos on a website of hers, >including our great-great grandfather, Alexander Wood, son of Edward (Ned) >Wood and Mary Moran. > >A few weeks later she was contacted by Arnold H. Hurd, III, author of >"Militia, Guerrillas and Confederate Veterans of Mercer County, Virginia & >West Virginia" who told her that our ancestor had been mentioned in the the >diary of future President Rutherford B. Hayes. > >We obtained a copy of the pages yesterday, pg. 404 reads: "From Volume VII >of Ritherford B. Hayes' diary at the Hayes Presidential Center: "Saturday >Mar 29 (1862)-Mr. Wood came in today with the folowing names of people >(Wyoming County, see map pg. 395) at the head of Tommy's Creek-the >gully-who >will keep the peace in the near future." > >Among those listed are "Issac, Joel F. & James N. Wood" "Alex Wood" and >"Peter Wood". I am not sure who exactly was the Mr. Wood who delivered the >list, but I know my ancestor had left Patrick County and moved to Wyoming >County with his wife Mariah Jane Hopkins prior to 1858. Their two eldest >daughters, Mary and Nannie, were born there. By the end of the war they had >returned to the Lone Ivy section of Patrick County where they remained the >rest of their lives. > >The other Woods mentioned were an uncle and cousins, his Uncle Alexander >Wood (s/o Richard Wood and Rachel Cockram) was living in Flat Top, Mercer >County, WVA, until his death in 1885. > >The phot of Alexand Wood the younger, can be seen at: >http://www.myhenrycounty.com/family/alexander_wood.jpg > >Truman Adkins >Fieldale, Henry County, Virginia > >_________________________________________________________________ >FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar - get it now! >http://toolbar.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200415ave/direct/01/ > > >==== VAPATRIC Mailing List ==== >Patrick County Historical Society >http://www.patcovahistory.org/ > > > > >==== VAPATRIC Mailing List ==== >Patrick Co., Va. List Administrator >Barb Stanley >barbstanley@cox.net > _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/

I know what you mean, those RAKESes were all over that area, as were the WOODs. I ask because my mother was born on the second farm away from theres along Shooting Creek, and my mother knew them. Samuel Jackson RAKES, Jr., Company D, 51st Virginia Infantry, CSA, died of smallpox at Emory (Washington CoVA) in April 1864, according to his widow's pension application. Ruth Ann THOMAS m. Samuel, Jr., 18 Dec 1852. I think I am related to Ruth as well as Samuel, and I'm just trying to find out who here parents were and what the names of all their children were. They had at least eight, and I only know of Sarah, whose name I got from a census record. Henry's full name was Henry Bland WOOD, if that helps. Carolyn HALE BRUCE Co-author, Rebel King, Hammer of the Scots and Rebel King, The Har'ships http://www.RebelKing.com Author, Virginiana, A Visitors' Guide to Virginia History and Other Stuff http://www.VirginianaBooks.com Available now at www.JonesArt.com: Herb Jones, Poet With a Paintbrush by Barbara Jones Jones ----- Original Message ----- From: "Truman Adkins" <trumanadkins@hotmail.com> To: <VAPATRIC-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 2:38 PM Subject: Re: [VAPATRICK] Alexander Wood 1831-1907 > I'll have to check when I get home tonight, there are so many of them.... > > >>From: "Carolyn Bruce" <cdhbruce@cox.net> >>Reply-To: VAPATRIC-L@rootsweb.com >>To: VAPATRIC-L@rootsweb.com >>Subject: Re: [VAPATRICK] Alexander Wood 1831-1907 >>Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 14:32:19 -0500 >> >>Truman, would you be related to the Henry WOOD who m. Sarah RAKES, dau. >>Samuel Jackson RAKES, Jr., and Ruth THOMAS? >> >>Carolyn HALE BRUCE >>Co-author, Rebel King, Hammer of the Scots >>and Rebel King, The Har'ships >>http://www.RebelKing.com >>Author, Virginiana, A Visitors' Guide to Virginia History and Other Stuff >>http://www.VirginianaBooks.com >>Available now at www.JonesArt.com: Herb Jones, >>Poet With a Paintbrush by Barbara Jones Jones >>----- Original Message ----- From: "Truman Adkins" >><trumanadkins@hotmail.com> >>To: <VAPATRIC-L@rootsweb.com> >>Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 1:55 PM >>Subject: [VAPATRICK] Alexander Wood 1831-1907 >> >> >>Recently my sister posted some of our family photos on a website of hers, >>including our great-great grandfather, Alexander Wood, son of Edward (Ned) >>Wood and Mary Moran. >> >>A few weeks later she was contacted by Arnold H. Hurd, III, author of >>"Militia, Guerrillas and Confederate Veterans of Mercer County, Virginia & >>West Virginia" who told her that our ancestor had been mentioned in the >>the >>diary of future President Rutherford B. Hayes. >> >>We obtained a copy of the pages yesterday, pg. 404 reads: "From Volume VII >>of Ritherford B. Hayes' diary at the Hayes Presidential Center: "Saturday >>Mar 29 (1862)-Mr. Wood came in today with the folowing names of people >>(Wyoming County, see map pg. 395) at the head of Tommy's Creek-the >>gully-who >>will keep the peace in the near future." >> >>Among those listed are "Issac, Joel F. & James N. Wood" "Alex Wood" and >>"Peter Wood". I am not sure who exactly was the Mr. Wood who delivered the >>list, but I know my ancestor had left Patrick County and moved to Wyoming >>County with his wife Mariah Jane Hopkins prior to 1858. Their two eldest >>daughters, Mary and Nannie, were born there. By the end of the war they >>had >>returned to the Lone Ivy section of Patrick County where they remained the >>rest of their lives. >> >>The other Woods mentioned were an uncle and cousins, his Uncle Alexander >>Wood (s/o Richard Wood and Rachel Cockram) was living in Flat Top, Mercer >>County, WVA, until his death in 1885. >> >>The phot of Alexand Wood the younger, can be seen at: >>http://www.myhenrycounty.com/family/alexander_wood.jpg >> >>Truman Adkins >>Fieldale, Henry County, Virginia >> >>_________________________________________________________________ >>FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar - get it now! >>http://toolbar.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200415ave/direct/01/ >> >> >>==== VAPATRIC Mailing List ==== >>Patrick County Historical Society >>http://www.patcovahistory.org/ >> >> >> >> >>==== VAPATRIC Mailing List ==== >>Patrick Co., Va. List Administrator >>Barb Stanley >>barbstanley@cox.net >> > > _________________________________________________________________ > Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! > http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ > > > ==== VAPATRIC Mailing List ==== > Patrick County Heritage Book Volumes 1 & 2 > http://www.myvirginiaheritage.com/heritage_books/patrick_county2.htm > >