Robert Tombs Wood

Siloam Cemetery, Leon Co. Cemeteries of TX

Leon County, Texas

Information by Gloria Briley Mayfield

James Pierce Wood born born in 1815 and died Aug 01 1866 in Sand Flat Cemetery in Lufkin , Angelina Co. TX .  He married Christina Lovett Dec 24 1839 in Warren Co. GA.  They had 8 children:  Richard, Sarah Burke , David Joseph, Drucilla, James Pierce II, Robert Toombs, John,  Annie Jane.

Camellia Emmaline Bailey Wood b: August 17, 1861 and died January 12, 1912, she is buried in Blakely Cemetery with her son, Albert Leonard Wood, both died of mennegitis with in week of each other. She married Robert Toombs Wood  b: April 06, 1853 in Macon, Georgia d. October 23, 1910

They had 11 children:
....2   My grandfather, James Robert Wood b: January 20, 1880 in Brazos Co, Texas, move to Leon Co. when 5. He married Sarah Anna Lela Long b: July 12, 1886 in Chickasaw Co. Mississippi  Both are  buried in Lakeview Cemetery, Winters, Runnels Co. Tx.
.   2  Charlie Andrew Wood b: December 11, 1881 married  Minnie L Lookingbill b: January 02, 1884
    2  Willie E. Wood b: 1888 married Archie Miller Long (Sarah Anna Lela Long's brother) b: Sept 24, 1882 in Mississippi
..  2  William David Wood b: 1889
... 2  Dora Wood b: 1891 married William B. Reeves b: 1889
..  2  Laura Elizebeth Wood b: March 04, 1896  married William C. Ragsdale
..  2  Doshia (Dot) Wood  b: 1898 married F.O. Nelson
... 2  Albert Leonard Wood b: 1901   died Jan 1913
... 2  Anna Lee Wood b: 1902  married Unknown Ressler
.   2  Claude Edgar Wood b: August 10, 1905
..  2  Infant Wood b:  No dates

Gloria Briley Mayfield, daughter of Myrtle Best Wood and Robert Lee Briley, Sr. of Runnels Co. TX