Wood
Cemetery Montgomery County Texas
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The Wood family cemetery is located in a small grove within what was
formerly Greenwood plantation (1850-1866), a short distance from the town of
Danville, lying within the Joseph Lindley Survey near the northern boundary
of Montgomery County. Today the cemetery is located on gated private
property off Shepard Hill Road, west of the Old Danville Cemetery. Eight
grave markers have survived, in varying conditions, and one other burial in
the cemetery has been recorded. Efforts are under way to restore and
preserve the cemetery to some extent. Bill Wood & Elsa Vorwerk in
Georgetown, Williamson County provided the following information.
Elsa was tragically killed in Georgetown, Texas on 31 July 2017. Please
contact Bill Wood via email
wbwoodjr@mindspring.com.
From
an email from Bill dated, November 12, 2019:
Yes, you can add my name and email address to the TXGenWeb site.
However, I am a poor substitute for Elsa. This was a “labor of love”
for her. The genealogy work that she did for the Wood family is
documented and available at the Wood/Vorwerk families website.
https://www.woodvorwerk.com/
She understood the subtle connections between
families and events, and had the website.
She understood the subtle connections between
families and events, and had the ability to uncover “evidence” in a way
that was accurate and professional. I could never begin to do what she
did.
The Wood Family Cemetery is located
west of I-45, just off of Shepard Hill Road which is between
Willis and New Waverly Turn right off of Shepard Hill Rd. at
Viniarski Rd. Viniarski Rd. dead ends at private property which
is where the cemetery is located.
The last time I was there (about 2 years ago), the gate which
used to be locked all the time, was open and appeared to be open
all the time. The cemetery is in poor condition and not all of
the stones are intact, upright or visible. Below is Green
Wood’s.
We used to contact the owner or his
caretaker every time we wanted to visit the cemetery. But
in more recent times, that hasn’t been necessary.
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In February 2008, all
stones were found that appeared in earlier transcriptions, with the
exception that part of one stone is missing. (A survey of this cemetery
appears in the Montgomery County Texas Cemeteries book, Vol. V, with some
typographical errors.)
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In Memory of / GREEN
WOOD, / BORN / January 31st, 1792, / DIED / February 12th, 1866 |
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EVELINA A. WOOD / Wife
of / GREEN WOOD, / Born / OCT. 23, 1806, / Died / APRIL 1, 1888. |
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In Memory of / LIZZIE
G. / Wife of / R. M. POWELL, / Daughter of / G. & E. A. WOOD, / Died / June
14th 1856. |
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In Memory of / WILLIS
B. WOOD / SON OF / G. & E. A. WOOD / BORN / Dec. 12th 1826, / Died / Dec.
15th 1854. |
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[SARAH ANNE HARRIS /
Wife of Willis B. Wood] / BORN / SEPT. 2, 1828, / DIED / Oct. 28, 1867. |
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WILLIS EASON WOOD, /
Son of / WILLIS B. & SARAH A. / WOOD, / BORN / SEPT. 2, 1849, / DIED / Jan.
28, 1890. |
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MITCHELL, / Son of / Wm
B. & C. J. WOOD / BORN / Aug. 31, 1857; / DIED / Dec. 13, 1859. |
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In memory of / LIZZIE
POWELL / Infant daughter of / C. & J. M. Abercrombie, / BORN / July 31st
1856, / DIED / Jan. 10th 1857. |
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On Sunday, 1 January 1866, Green Wood recorded in his daily account book, "Mrs
McIver wife of Doctor McIver was Buried here today." (Book 14: 1863-1866,
page 162, Greenwood Plantation, Montgomery County, Texas, 1850-1866, DVD 3,
Folder 13.) Evidence suggests that this was Nancy/Ann McIver, born about
1811 in North Carolina, wife of David McIver; they are found in the 1850 and
1860 censuses in neighboring Grimes County.
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