Wabash County IL Archives Cemeteries.....Barney Prairie Church Cemetery, Friendsville Precinct
AKA Wood Farm Cemetery & Paul Newkirk Farm Cemetery
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File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Paul Kankula February 13, 2000

Version 1, 17-Mar-2000, Woods.TXT

LOCATION:
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South of Friendsville.


HISTORY:
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DATAFILE INPUT . : Shannon Swain in Sep-1999

DATAFILE LAYOUT  : Paul Kankula in Sep-1999

HISTORY WRITE-UP : ____________ at ____________ in _______ 

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a. = age at death
b. = date of birth
d. = date of death
h. = husband
p. = parents
w. = wife


GARD, William R.
d. 19-aug-1881, a. 22y 11m 7d

LITHERLAND, Mary
b. 24-apr-1818, d. 17-apr-1898, a. 79y 11m 24d

WOOD,Avalena
d. 29-oct-1841, a. 10y 11m 18d, p. J. & C. Wood

WOOD, Eliza
b. 5-mar-1851, d. 23-nov-1898, a. 47y 8m 18d, h. J.C. Birkett

WOOD, Elizabeth
b. 15-sept-1869, d. 16-dec-1875, p. J.R. & S. A. Wood

WOOD, Guy L.
b. 21-feb-1883, d. 22-oct-1890, p. C. & N. Wood

WOOD, Hiram
d. 4-aug-1825,  a. 1m 9d, p. J. & C. Wood

WOOD,  Infant
d. 9-july-1831, p. J. & C. Wood

WOOD, Jeremiah
Black Hawk, U.S. Marker

WOOD, John
d. 20-jan-1891, a. 87y 1m 0d

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WOOD, John
Ensign Maryland Militia, U. S. Marker

Mt. Carmel Daily Republican Register, July 5, 1929

      Tribute was paid yesterday to John Wood, Revolutionary war hero, when a monument
      at his grave in the old Wood Cemetery was unveiled at services held under the 
      auspices of the local Daughters of the American Revolution chapter.  The services
      drew a large attendance.  Among those attending were many descendants of this 
      pioneer who founded the Wood settlement in Friendsville precinct and established
      Fort Wood in the early days of the county for protection of the settlers against
      Indians.
      
      The program proper began at 10 o'clock with a bugle call and salute to the flag, 
      followed by the D.A.R. ritual.  The unveiling of the monument was in charge of 
      the boy scouts.
      
      Hon. Lewis Jackman of Vincennes gave an interesting review of early history of
      the territory and especially of John Wood, the pioneer and soldier, and the Wood
      family.
      
      Hon. William A. McCauley of Olney, always an interesting and forceful speaker,
      was present for a patriotic address, and he gave an excellent one.
      
      The program ended with salute and taps.  Legion members and U.S.W.V. members
      participated.  The cemetery where the ceremony was held is about a half mile 
      off the main highway on the Paul Newkirk farm on the Friendsville road north
      of Mount Carmel.  The site of the burying ground is in a grove adjacent to a 
      little creek bottoms, and on one side of the cemetery is depression where once 
      the highway ran, its route still plainly visible.  The body of Mr. Wood rests 
      near the northeast corner of the burial plot.  Many of the old ones are marked
      by sandstone markers.
      
      Chairs had been arranged for the crowd and the ceremony was held within the shady
      old cemetery.  History recounts that John Wood was an ensign in the Maryland 
      militia.  Following the Revolutionary war, he went to Warren County, Kentucky,
      from where he migrated to what later became Wabash County, Illinois, in the spring
      of 1809 and there established the Wood settlement and Wood fort.  The site of the
      old fort, between the highway and the Newkirk home was marked yesterday with a flag. 
      This site was perhaps a quarter of a mile from the cemetery.  It is also recorded in
      history that John Wood brought from Kentucky the first apple trees to be planted in
      Wabash County, thus establishing the famous Wood apple which for generations was a 
      well known fruit in this territory.  Mr. Wood was born in 1754 and died in 1834.

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WOOD, Katharine 
d. ?-oct-1878, a. 70y 9m 17d, h. John Wood

WOOD, Marchall
b. 14-mar-1826, d. 1-july-1893, a. 67y 3m 17d

WOOD, Martha
d. 3-july-1870, a. 7m 1d, p. S. & S.J. Wood

WOOD, Martha Ogle
h. John Wood, sand stone marking only

WOOD, Rachel
b. 25-june-1840, d. 28-apr-1880, h. V.  Wood

WOOD, Sarah J.
d. 25-jan-1876, a. 23y 4m 14d, h. Stephen Wood

WOOD, William
d. 25-jan-1876, a. 29y 4m 23d, p. J & C. Wood

WOOD, William E.
b. 23-feb-1863, d. 3-jan-1877, p. V. & H. Wood

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