1730 pages, 8 1/2 x 11", hardcover, acid free paper, photographs and illustrations, indexed.
The first chapter was researched and compiled by Robert D. Wood, Sr. and his deceased cousin, J. Glenn Wood. This chapter deals with the first generation of William Wood (early 1700s-1770), his sons Penuel, John, William, Jr., Bennett, and Cattron, and the third generation sons of Penuel, namely Henry, Benjamin, James and Penuel, Jr. and sons of other third generation lines.
The migration of the descendants of William Wood occurred thus:
Present day descendants of Penuel's sons Henry and Benjamin, are in the area of Greer, Greenville and Spartanburg Counties, South Carolina.
Ruth Cunningham Paget the author's mother, was named for her grandmother, Ruth Ann Wood, who was the daughter of Jeptha Washington Wood and the granddaughter of Benjamin Wood. Henry and Benjamin Wood were both veterans of the American Revolution. Benjamin's line is not near as complete as that of Henry's lines. Henry organized what is today Wood's Chapel Methodist Church on Hwy 101S in Spartanburg County, SC. Most of his descendants still live in that area and many are buried in the cemetery at Wood's Chapel. Henry's daughter, Charity, who married William Hendrix and his youngest son by his first wife, Isham are from whom most of the Greer area descendants come from. Some of the Wood Family cemeteries had to be removed when the present Greenville-Spartanburg International Jetport was built in the early 1960s. Some were moved to the Wood's Chapel Cemetery.
This is the author's 5th book.
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