Individual Details
Lorenzo Dow Wood
(April 16, 1805 - December 7, 1889)
"Lorenzo Dow and Louisa Rhea Wood lived in north Georgia until about 1854-55, then joined David Henderson and other McCleskey's in the migration to northern Alabama where they settled in the Marshall - Blount County areas. A few years later Etowah County was organized and some of the McCleskey kin were in the area included in the new county, but not far from the county lines of both Marshall and Blount. A few years after the end of the Civil War (1869) they again sought new country in the west and settled on the Paluxy River near present Bluff Dale, Texas. It was here by the clear waters of the Paluxy River flowing at the foot of limestone hills through lovely green valleys that they both died and were buried in what is now known as Rock Church Cemetery. The historic old Rock Church Cemetery is located in Hood County, just a few yards from the Erath County line, southeast of Bluff Dale and southwest of Tolar.
"Lorenzo Dow Wood was one of the builders of that (the Rock) church and many of the monuments in the cemetery bear the names of his family and kin. We are fortunate in having an obituary of his death. It reads as follows: "WOOD. Lorenzo Dow Wood was born in Spartanburg District, South Carolina, April 16, 1805. He professed faith in Christ, and joined the M. E. Church when quite a youth, he moved to Georgia while young, and grew to manhood a member of the Church; at an early age he evinced great zeal for the blessed Master and his cause, hence he was appointed class leader, and he led his class according to the Wesleyan type for a number of years, developing in himself the very highest type of a Wesleyan Methodist. He began early and continued the work until he was denominated an invincible Christian character. He probably was nearly up to the Wesleyan ideal of a class leader as any man ever was, and all of these characteristics he maintained until the day of his death. He led his class practicing all the characteristics of religious life and living. Indeed, he was a living epistle, known and read of all men to have been with the Lord. Uncle Dow (as he was familiarly called) moved during the fifties to Etowah County, Alabama, where the writer first formed his acquaintenace.
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(DESCENDANTS OF JAMES AND JOSEPH McCLESKEY, THE TEXAS GROUP, 1978 compiled by Charles S. McCleskey, page 161-162.)
"Lorenzo Dow Wood was one of the builders of that (the Rock) church and many of the monuments in the cemetery bear the names of his family and kin. We are fortunate in having an obituary of his death. It reads as follows: "WOOD. Lorenzo Dow Wood was born in Spartanburg District, South Carolina, April 16, 1805. He professed faith in Christ, and joined the M. E. Church when quite a youth, he moved to Georgia while young, and grew to manhood a member of the Church; at an early age he evinced great zeal for the blessed Master and his cause, hence he was appointed class leader, and he led his class according to the Wesleyan type for a number of years, developing in himself the very highest type of a Wesleyan Methodist. He began early and continued the work until he was denominated an invincible Christian character. He probably was nearly up to the Wesleyan ideal of a class leader as any man ever was, and all of these characteristics he maintained until the day of his death. He led his class practicing all the characteristics of religious life and living. Indeed, he was a living epistle, known and read of all men to have been with the Lord. Uncle Dow (as he was familiarly called) moved during the fifties to Etowah County, Alabama, where the writer first formed his acquaintenace.
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(DESCENDANTS OF JAMES AND JOSEPH McCLESKEY, THE TEXAS GROUP, 1978 compiled by Charles S. McCleskey, page 161-162.)
Events
| Birth | April 16, 1805 | Spartanburg District, South Carolina | |||
| Marriage | January 24, 1828 | Hall County, Georgia - Louisa Rhea McCleskey | |||
| Death | December 7, 1889 | ||||
| Burial | Rock Church Cemetery, near Bluff Dale, Hood County, Texas |
Families
| Spouse | Louisa Rhea McCleskey (1810 - 1875) |
| Child | Eliza Ann Turk Wood (1829 - ) |
| Child | Robert Rhea Wood (1831 - ) |
| Child | Zemily Isabella Wood (1833 - ) |
| Child | David Milton Wood (1836 - ) |
| Child | Joseph Benson Wood (1838 - 1839) |
| Child | Martha Elizabeth Wood (1840 - 1933) |
| Child | Thomas Archer Wood (1842 - 1897) |
| Child | George W. Wood (1845 - 1934) |
| Child | Sarah Rebecca "Lizzie" Wood (1847 - 1883) |
| Father | Robert Wood (1765 - 1835) |
| Mother | Rebecca Traylor (1771 - 1855) |
| Sibling | Polly W. Wood (1791 - ) |
| Sibling | Rebecca G. Wood (1793 - ) |
| Sibling | Thirza H. Wood (1795 - 1868) |
| Sibling | William E. Wood (1797 - ) |
| Sibling | Wiley E. Wood (1798 - ) |
| Sibling | Catherine T. Wood (1801 - ) |
| Sibling | Archer M. Wood (1803 - ) |
| Sibling | Ann Wood (1810 - ) |
| Sibling | Joel T. Wood (1812 - ) |
| Sibling | John J. Wood (1815 - ) |
| Sibling | Robert Capel Wood (1817 - 1897) |