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Franklin Wood (1815–1889)

Ted's 5th-great-grandfather. A bridge between the colonial Wood line and the modern family.

Facts

  • Born: 1815, Quebec
  • Died: April 28, 1889
  • Wife: Eliza Barber (1820–1863, England)
  • Son: Samuel Franklin Wood (1845–1909, Brattleboro, VT)
  • Father: Samuel Wood (1787–1848)
  • Mother: Abigail Church (1788–1837)

Context

Franklin was born in Quebec — an interesting geographic detour for a family that had been in New England since the 1600s. His father Samuel was the son of Philip Wood, the Revolution-era ancestor from Rehoboth, Massachusetts.

Franklin married Eliza Barber, an English immigrant, adding fresh English blood to a line that had been American for nearly two centuries by that point.

His son Samuel Franklin Wood settled in Brattleboro, Vermont. Samuel Franklin's daughter Estelle Wood married into the Quinn family in Illinois, eventually producing Ted's mother Judith.

Line to Ted

Franklin Wood → Samuel Franklin Wood → Estelle Wood → Virginia W. Quinn → Judith Estelle Quinn → Cornelius Arthur Barnett → Theodore Hayes Barnett

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