The family of Jonathan Wood, Jr., Martha Wood-Hause's brother, are also prominent in the cemetery, and there are over fifty Wood graves, overall. The earliest are in an older portion of the cemetery, called "the old burying ground."
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The Hause monument in Plot 64.
The Wood family plots in "the old burying ground," all relatives of Martha Wood-Hause.
NOTES ON THIS PAGE:
¹—It is assumed that Jane is in this cemetery with the other Wood family members because after the death of her husband she traveled west with sister-in-law Martha Wood Hause and family, and lived with son Israel Ricky. Evidence includes this letter from Israel to brother John in Ohio:
"Doct John Wood
Highland Co Ohio
Hillsboro P O
Wayne May 11th 1834
Dear Brother
A few days agoe I recieved a letter from you before that I had not recieved but one and that just after the death of yours wife but I had writen several times I was threw several counties in Stankky[?] in the fall of 1831 and I made diligent inquirey for you but I could not hear anything of you but since that time I slightly heared that you was dead and I heared nothing to the contrary till very lately by Ashtons letter [Ashton Wilcox their half-brother]. We are all well at preasant we have a large family seven boys & three girls Our Dear Mother is living yet She grows old and feble and much of the time so out of health that she is confined to her room and Bead and by hearing from you raises anew anxity to see you again before she departs this life She laments the long absence of you with us vary much Elizabeth and Deborah [their sisters Elizabeth Fleet and Deborah Margeson] is living in joining Towns to me their and their familys health and prospects are favorable Isaac Wilcox [their half-brother] lives one mile from me he follows Blacksmithing at present he antisipates on going to the west but his wife is confined with the Consumption and they have two little Boys John and David
the times are hard Produce low and money scarse the wether is Cold the ground is wet and the season is very backward
Dear Brother our patience is exausted in waiting and looking for your appearance in to our Country wait no longer sooth the affected Mother Releve anxious looking and Impatient waiting for by the Brothers and Sisters and the inquiring nephew and nieces whi dont Uncle John come to this country to see us is theair language I can not see why you should not come we and our children amount to about 30
Come Soone Come next fall if you cannot come before Mother sends her love to you and to your wife and children
We all send our love to you and would wish to be remembered to your family write on the receipt of this letter and let us know when you can visit us fetch along Martha and the children no more at Present I Remain youre affectionate Brother until death
I R Wood"
²—In a reading of the cemetery performed from 1999 to 2001 by Susan Rockwell Austin, it was noted that there were "three (probably Fleet) stones weathered and unreadable". These stones may represent the burial locations of the 3 known(?) children of Abraham and Elizabeth: Isaac Fleet (1820-1821), Lafayette Fleet (1824-BEF 1830), and Andrew Jackson Fleet (1832-1832). Elizabeth was Abram's third wife, and he had 17 children altogether.