I hope you will find it possible to post the message I just sent regarding the above. It should help clarify a lot of wrong information floating around out there, some of which I certainly contributed to. I had based my research on a "bought and paid for" genealogy belonging to my great-aunt that connected another Jeremiah Wood of Halifax County, VA then later of Jackson County, Mo. to the Wood family of Bedford. There were so many extraordinary similarities involving dates and names and even a land transaction in Bedford County. In the process I learned that a death record often reveals a lot of genealogical information like name of spouse, place of birth and names of parents. Also, I learned that just because someone says "there is no will" that perhaps you should look further. A will not accepted for probate will not be listed in the Will Index. The Estate of that person will be referred to in the Administration docment as "intestate." To make it absolutely clear: Jeremiah Wood who married Elizabeth Stanley in 1813 in Halifax Co.Va and moved to Jackson Co.,Mo. is not the Jeremiah Wood of Bedford who married Martha Feazle and moved to Buchanan Co.,Mo. Dorothy