Show DANIEL DANKEL WOOD CEMETERY TO REMAIN IN BUSINESS DISTRICT The Daniel Wood burial ground a small family cemetery on high high- highway highway way 91 is Lc to remain despite the fact that it is at the side of the road in the heart of the new bust busi business bustness ness section west vest of Bountiful City Cit The plot will be parked and preserved as a permanent land landmark landmark mark and shrine of the Daniel Wood posterity Daniel Wood farmer of Eng Eng- English English lish descent was born in Duchess county New York Oct 16 1800 the son of Harry and Elizabeth Dee ie Milt Wood He He joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Latter- day Saints and was baptised by Brigham Young in 1833 I A stalwart pioneer of 1848 he settled in Bountiful in 1849 and homesteaded a quarter of a sec see section tion of land covered by b willows and md wild grass The Wasatch Oil Company the O. O S. S L. L depot and the Farmers State Bank are all alli i situated on the land once owned by this study pioneer On his property near his liis first fint home he built a school house S I where his 30 youngsters and some I of the neighbors children received their early training Twice ice a family meetings were held in the school house On one side of the room a plat plat- platform platform platform form was built where several of J his lis sons played the band on the theother theother theother other side the daughters daughter formed a choir and son Peter a talented musician conducted A railroad survey about 1869 1800 cut ut the fertile Wood property in half This greatly incensed Mr Wood On his way home from Can Canada Canada Canada ada nearing the new station nam named ed in his honor the conductor called Woods Cross and Wood replied Yes and d cross crossl crosslAnd And Woods Cross has never chang changed ed its name A severe epidemic of diphtheria in 1870 took the lives of ten or more of Mr Woods Wood's children and grandchildren These youngsters together with several Indian or or- orphans orphans of the Black Hawk war chit chI children dren who had been adopted by part Indian wife of Mr Wood were buried in that little family cemetery Descendants of the Daniel Wood family met April 5 at 7 p. p m. m in the Bountiful Bount ul First ward chapel At 7 p. p m. m a pilgrimage was made to the cemetery by the group and at 8 p. p m. m a business meeting and program was held in inthe inthe inthe the hall ball followed by a dance Al Al- Albert Albert bert Wood Mabey of Provo Prove is president of the family association tion and Naomi Wood Salter of Woods Cross is secretary |