James A. Wood

Birth Date

1815-02-05

Death Date

1889-02-06

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Nelson County, Kentucky, sheriff. Washington, D.C. native. Married to Elizabeth J. Roberts in Bardstown, Kentucky, on April 8, 1860. Father of Elizabeth Wood, Thalia Wood, James Wood, William Wood, and Nannie Wood. Sheriff in Nelson County, Kentucky in 1860. Owned six enslaved persons in Nelson County in 1860.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 1, p. 228.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 1, p. 32.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Nelson County Marriages, Film #001929414, p. 567.
Find A Grave, "Col. James A. Wood (1815-1889)," Memorial #84096280, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84096280 (accessed May 17, 2020).
“Escaped the Alamo: Col. James A. Wood, Who Claims That He Was One of the Three Survivors of Santa Anna's Massacre, Dies in Bloomfield,” Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), February 7, 1889, p. 4.

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