(d. 1871), pioneer. Born presumably at his parents’ home in Charlottenburgh Township, GC. Parents: Benjamin Wood and his wife Agnes Benedict. When a child, he moved to Cornwall with his widowed mother. He was a carpenter in Cornwall, then a farmer at Aultsville. He became a convert to the Mormon Church (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints). He took part in a 500-wagon trek of 1840 from Toronto to Nauvoo, Illinois, was driven out of Nauvoo by an anti-Mormon mob in 1846, was a farmer at Kainsville (later called Omaha), Nebr., crossed the plains to Utah in 1851, returned to Kainsville, then crossed to Utah again, this time as head of a 100-wagon train, in 1852. Having settled at American Fork, south of Salt Lake City, he farmed and built houses, then moved to Midway, Utah, where he had daughters living, southeast of Salt Lake City. Place of death: Midway. He had taken part in Indian Wars in the Utah area, and it is reported that when he died he still had a portion of an arrow in his leg. His wife was Catherine Critis (sp. found thus), probably from Osnabruck Twp.

Elizabeth Hoople and the Wood Research Team, Jonas Wood U. E. L. (1984?) 13 * Frank Esshom, Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah Comprising Photographs– Genealogies– Biographies (1966) 296 (portraits of son and grandson), 1258 biog