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Show Death or a Veteran. Uide: n Djrfee Wood, son of hy-dla hy-dla Stevens and Jabez Wood, bom in the towu of Hardwlck, Otsego Count, N. Y., June )th, IMS, died September 9th, 159 J, In Spring-ville, Spring-ville, Utah. While yet a small boy, his parents moved from the Shite of New Yor to Pennsylvania, as the part of the State they lived in furnished very scanty means of t uuststence. They afterwards moved further west and settled in what was called the Western West-ern Iteserve, Sharon County, Ohio. On Dec Is, 1S3-), ho was married to Ml-s Hannah Ditey by '.-)ulrc Bryant, and soon carved out a home in tlie forest. I n February, 1S32, he was baptized into the-Church of Jesus Christ of latter-day Saints by ElderOrson Hyde, and un April lltli following his first son (now Hon. Lymin S. Woop) was born In August, 1S3S, he, with hlsfamily and others, removed to Far West, Missouri. On his arrival he found much Ill-feeling existing on the part of the Mlssourians against the Saints, which soon broke out Into open violence, resulting result-ing in the expulsion of tho Saints the following winter, when he and his family were driven front the State. He afterwards settled In Big Neck, Adams Co., Illinois, wli'tb he remained until the fall of IS t where lie fled before a violent. persecution to Nauvoo. In the spring oflSU he left with the camp of the Saints for the I tacky Mountains, Moun-tains, stopping at Council Bluffs on his way, until the spring of 1SU when he took his family to Salt hake. In December 1S50 he acconifanlcd George A. Smith to foand a settlement at what Is known as Parowan, Iron County, auJ returned next spring to Salt hake. In the fall of 1S-.1 he went to SpringvlIIe, where he lioughta farm and other property and early In the spring of 1S53 ho removed his family thither. In IS-V he accompanied Orson Hydo to farm a settlement at what is now Carson. Nev. He was ordained n High Priest Nov. 9th, ISjI. His wile died April 15lh, 1ST1. With her he had two sons and three daughters. He also married Elizabeth Wakefield by whom he hal one sou and two daughters. Iu all his associations with the Church he remained unwavering un-wavering to the end and was a staunch supporter of co-operative and ether financial institutions connected con-nected therewith. |