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Henry Crutcher Wood (Hart County, Kentucky, representative, attorney, and Court of Appeals Justice)

b. 1821-11-27 d. 1861-02-11

Hart County, Kentucky, representative, attorney, and Court of Appeals justice. Hart County, Kentucky, native. Son of George Twyman Wood and Elizabeth Helm Wood. Married to Elizabeth Barret Wood in Green County, Kentucky, on January 1, 1843. Father of Henry Crittenden Wood, Thomas John Wood, George Twyman Wood, and Lizzie Boyle Wood. Graduate of Centre College in Boyle County, Kentucky, in 1841. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Hart County from 1847 to 1848. Attorney in Hart County in 1850. Owned three enslaved persons in Hart County in 1850. Justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals from 1858 to 1861. Owned ten enslaved persons in Louisville in 1860. Died in Hart County on February 11, 1861.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hart County, p. 269A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hart County, p. 437.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 6, p. 321.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, p. 279A.

Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1874), 332.

The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 111.

George Norbury Mackenzie and Nelson Osgood Rhoades, editors, Colonial Families of the United States of America: in Which is Given the History, Genealogy and Armorial Bearings of Colonial Families Who Settled in the American Colonies From the Time of the Settlement of Jamestown, 13th May, 1607, to the Battle of Lexington, 19th April, 1775 (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1995), 276.

Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, Louisville, KY, National 24478, State 319.

"Judge Henry C. Wood (1821-1861)," Find A Grave, Memorial 114277310, accessed January 25, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/114277310.

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Wood, Henry Crutcher. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32203111 (November 12, 2026).

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