Show V 16 A 0 1 iak e A fief y daniel wood was born in ili duchess county new york october 16 1800 he was tile the second child of henry wood and elizabeth demelt ilia his father removed to ernest town canada with his family in the year 1803 where he be I 1 lived about five years when he amov qa fa C town t arl of sid nayham ca A ain r r bained and i of fifteen abi ff hiie p i T six daughters ile he made it a point t to start his suns out with forty acres of land one yoke of oxen two cows and ten sheep at the age of twenty two dan daniel le married mary blary E snider and started out with his bis apportionment and was prospered in this place for eight years being blessed with three children john henry aud and rebe iball I 1 when the elders of the church of jesus christ of Latt erday saints found him and a number dumber of prosperous neighbors they only preached a few times but they left with the little ittle village a strong desire to lo investigate vesti gate and be baptized and by continuing conti continuing nuin g their iii meetings ca tinis as bast best they could alone he became so convinced that lie should be baptized that hat lie he requested it of a methodist shortly after brigham and joseph young appeared aud and explained the order of the church of christ more mor C perfectly and had the privilege of leading bading the little already prepared colony down into the waters of baptism ile he was ordained an all older elder and remained and preached until the summer of 1834 when he sold his possessions and with his wife and three children went to kirtland oldo ohio he e bought a farm four miles south of kirtland and lived there until 1838 when he be went to davis county missouri arriving there the lelh of tune june there again lie took up a farm arm but was unable to remain on account of the mob so ho about the first of october lie went to the far west here tile the mob surrounded them hem again and joseph smith and others other were betrayed into the enemies hands and the city was put under guard they were out of provisions having been driven from their heir grain so daniel went in with the mob called called soldiers and with the aai Q tiffi ta if hambe family and iad his ra rations eions they no not nr afa af 7 tt being being was won in february they ay started fo rui EI nois ile he had a cow he paid sixty dollars for A party wanted to buy her he be asked 18 but did not sell on oil the road another came t to 0 buy and he asked 20 again another came and he be asked 2 22 2 and still another came and lie he sold at 24 ile he ought to have gotten rich if lie he had bad not sold so soon as lie he told the last he be was going to raise 2 every time ile he boti bought 0 lit 40 acres of ground about eighteen miles from nauvoo here the mob followed and his son stood guard night and day while his mother was sick with ague and in 1815 1813 lie removed to nauvoo here lie he became acquainted with eninas cotton an orphan girl and ilar married ried her they soon prepared tu to leave not knowing where they were going 0 ile he landed in in tile the f fall all of 1848 lie he came to B bountiful immediately and built the fourth house lu in the settlement it wa was the first on mill creek and was located where the county road now runs just a little south of where simons house now stands in about two years he located his farm having 0 acres four years la later terlie he undertook the mammoth task of building that large adebie house and completed the main part and soon afterward added the back t s the largest und and kv MU J r rif tah 0 v a iu A J S ag 7 T lilis hiis family being U t t u started a school in his own taught by his wife emma and as soon as possible ps sible ha be employed a male teacher the school continued the greater part of the year his own children faithfully attending he be obtaining M good 0 support from the outside thus his school was a good start for the new country a thousand miles from civilization about 1860 he built a family meeting house about one story with basement and belfry from which came the welcome chimes of ilia his seventy dollar bell to this build i in no g he in moved ov cl his bis school meetings were held on oil every emery wednesday night and on other special occa occasions gions lie ile had hada a choir and a string 0 band in his own family and was not too sanctimonious timo mohave to bave a jig even at his fal family u 11 Y meetings one evening when joseph young e was present at tile the meeting the band st started arted up tip and he jumped out on the and showed those present how nimble he be was the general public was invited and they responded well as he often lad bad good speakers from the city and elsewhere Ise where every christmas while others were feasting his family was fasting and having a meeting 0 of prayer and making right t the he little misunderstandings and dib disputes of tile the old year these meetings were continued until quite recently lie ile was in canada when the utah central it 11 R was put through his field fiel cland and the depot located on oil his ground but the family wrote the particulars which did not lot please him and when lie came home it wis was late at night and when the conductor awoke him by announcing the name of the station woods cross he replied yes and d 7 r afe could seel 1 l the 1 gt not see fiK fj rsm sm n r r the roada corfi con 14 1 red his ground ao to booi gooi good I 1 lie abail a rail road lie ile lias has been a great worker in liis his day oven even at theatre the age 0 of f s seventy five lie he could lake a hand wita most ol of ting men lie he lived to the good old uge age of niety two and his eye sight was good enough to read the testament ment and D 1 ax and these were the only books lie he read his farni franie frame might 0 have been seen plodding along tile streets only a few weeks before liis his death and tha day befera lie he was taken sic sick lie he sat in his little private cemetery on ilia his farm farin where he fie has twenty five of his family laivand lai daud dand showed his daughter where ho be wanted to be put away to rest this little trew surp fure was his main one of late and he kept an old chair in it in which lie passed away X he leaves a large family to mou mourn ru ills his loss a as he had ten wives thirty two children and about one hundred grand children his funeral services were held in the fast east bountiful tabernacle taber ewed wed 2 p in m the stand find and casket were beautifully decorated on either cither side of tile pulpit stood four nicely flower pots six of which con 1 bained living plants in bloom the remaining two contained bouquets on the white casket was placed a sheaf of wheat and a beautiful arch of artificial flowers with these words in violet upon a white background welcome home P G sessions richard duerden E pace david stoker louis grant archie hill joseph F smith and 11 II J grant were the speakers the local brethren spoke on the views the deceased had entertained and on the praiseworthy worthy traits of his character joseph F smith occupied most of the time said he had bad p passed assed away proving a faithful lc the end the speaker mentioned that all the children of the deceased were in the faith the princepel prin cipel of death was commented upon and explained it to be only a separation of the body and soul for a time and that the savior had bad redeemed us from the fall brought into the world by adam ile he further said that as we ire arc laid away so we will rise again agai n on the resurrection day when a child is laid away it will still he be a child when it is resurrected ile he thought it would cause confusion in families if members who are small who when laid to rest should while in the grave 0 grow to their full stature as parents would not know them lie ile maintained that members of the body which had ber severed at or i f r D e t d JL W 1 a ki k i 1 I t t W who 0 appear paea ci as a whole in man an also iii ii i peter an and james the alie latter of whom was be headed beaded ile he thought the stunted tile cripple anti and the afflicted would after the resurrection grow to their full statue being 0 perfect in every particular in his closing remarks he hoped he be would be able to remain in ain faithful and unwavering to the end as tal lii 0 imparted brother had done gilb bieber r J grant menti mention onen cn a brief rule beyk by which aich true doctrine could be told fold from f ast is s that tr true u e doctrine always brings us hope bope and joy after the audience had bad viewed the reil mins were taken to their final resting plse plate in his bis own oun atme tery sexton taj taa lors hearse lieu headed ded the procession which consisted of fifty six vehicles |