Individual Details

The husbands of Clarinda and her sister Nancy were brothers.

Gave her age as 51 in the 1880 Crawford Co AR Census - birth year of 1829. She was older. The 1850 census gives her age as 26, and she may even have been older than that.

Clarinda's household was very interesting as found in 1880. John H. is there, age 23, but not listed as a son. C. M. Rizzley is a 26 year old man who works on the farm. Several children are marked as daughter or son and surely must be grandchildren. There is a 10 year old girl, Lyly, marked as daughter. Thelma, age 6, Julia, age 8/12, Edward, age 1, and John, age 1 are all listed as illegitimate - certainly the two young boys are not likely to have been Clarinda's children. This census is faded and very difficult to read.

1880 Census. Jasper Township, Crawford Co, AR p.521, Hh 8
Clarind Wood, age 51, "keeps house", born KY, parents b. KY
John H. age 23, unemployed, b. AR, parents b. KY
Rose, age 20, daughter, unemployed, b. AR, parents b. KY
Lyly, age 10, daughter, b. AR, parents b. KY ( she may have veen a granddau - see 1900)
Thelma, age 6, Daughter, b. AR, father "illegitimate", mother b. AR
Julia, age 8/12, born Oct, b. AR, father "illegitimate", mother b. AR
Edward, age 1, b. AR, father "illegitimate", mother b. AR
all apparently using the Wood surname
Rizzley, C. M. age 26, works on farm, b. MO, parents b. Ireland
Wood, Jane, age 29, daughter, unemployed, b. MO, parents b. KY [Is this Nancy J.? And are the young children hers?]
Williams, Lizza, age 23, daughter, unemployed, b. TX, parents birth places unknown [The only daughter of this age seems to have been Manda J., age 2 in 1860.}
" , John, age 1, son, b. AR, father "illegitmate"

1900 Census. Ft. Smith Ward 2, Sebastian Co, AR, Hh
Living on S. 6th St., Hh 66
Clarinda D. Wood, b. Oct 1824, age 75, widow, b. KY
Lillie Birst, gdau, b. Jan 1872, age 28, divorced, b. AR, Laundress

1910 Census. Ft Smith Ward 3, Sebastian, AR, Hh 125
M. E. Scoville, 60, widowed, 10 children - 9 living, b. AR, laborer, gen. work
Henry, son, 23, b. AR, chef, hotel
Clarenda Woods, mother, 96, widow, 9 children - 2 are living, b. KY, parents b. Germany (they were not!). [Daughter Miranda married a Scoville and is the age of M. E.]
J. B. Bell, boarder, 55, married 1 for 8 years, b. IN, laborer, Box Factory
Sarah Bell, boarder, wife, 55, 2 children (not with them), b. IN, laborer, Pants/Parts Factory

1911 Fort Smith City Directory
Wood, Clarinda (wid Thomas K), b. 509 S. 5th
The S pages are missing from this Directory so I could not look up Scoville in 1911.
However, in 1910:
1910 Ft. Smith City Directory
M. E. Scoville (wid James M) residence 509 S. 5th
Henry Scoville, cook r. 509 S. 5th
Wood, Clarinda, rms 509 S. 5th

Obituary on FindAGrave #253977821
Unidentified newspaper clipping - I have never seen so many things WRONG in an obit!
Aged Woman Dead
Fort Smith - Mrs. Clarinda Wood, who, had she lived, would have been 100 years old, died at her home, 509 S. 5th Street, Fort Smith. Mrs. Wood was born November 18, 1812 in Richmond, KY. [No - born about 1824!] At the time of her birth her father was an American soldier in the War of 18120 [Unproved - no indication he served]. Mrs. Wood came here in 1850. [Thomas & Clarinda were in Washington Co AR in 1850.] Mr. Wood died here in 1872 [1873]and Mrs. Wood never married again. Mrs. Wood came from a family of great longevity. Her mother, who came to America on the same ship as Lafayette, lived to the age of 99 years. [Her mother died at age 71 - her surname was Noland, her father unknown, born about 1765 she certainly did not come on the ship with Lafayette.] Her grandgmother is said to have died when she was 124 years old. [Her grandmother, Clarinda Noland died at about age 88-90] Her father, William Winkler, was an associate of Daniel Boone. [Doubful her father ever knew Daniel Boone since they weren't in the same place - AND he deserted his family falsely claiming his wife had deserted him and married a second time to a woman who already had a child by him.]

Birth	Abt 1824	Kentucky
Marriage	Abt 1839	Thomas K. Wood
Death	4 Oct 1912	Fort Smith, Sebastian County, Arkansas

Spouse	Thomas K. Wood (1819 - 1873)
Child	Mary Wood (1841 - )
Child	Margaret Wood (1845 - )
Child	Nancy J. Wood (1847 - )
Child	Miranda Elizabeth Wood (1850 - 1922)
Child	Malissa Wood (1853 - )
Child	John H. Wood (1856 - )
Child	Amanda Johanna Wood (1858 - )
Child	Rose Wood (1860 - 1890)

Father	WILLIAM WINKLER (1798 - 1880)
Mother	NANCY D. NOLAND (1799 - 1870)
Sibling	Mary "Polly" Noland (1816 - )
Sibling	Henry Winkler (1819 - 1877)
Sibling	Sally Winkler (1821 - 1870)
Sibling	William M. Winkler (1823 - 1911)
Sibling	NANCY E. WINKLER (1825 - 1853)