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Fred A. Wood, planter and carpenter, of Grady, Choctow Township, Lincoln Co., Ark., was born in Greenwood, Miss., in 1848, being a son of Jesse and Elizabeth (Tadlock) Wood. About the year 1855 the family moved from Mississippi to Arkansas, locating about seven miles from Pine Bluff, where they set to work to improve their land and run a saw-mill. Some years later they moved higher up the river, where Mr. Wood died in the year 1866, the calm and quietly beautiful death of a Christian man. He had for many years been a faithful member of the Baptist Church. He had also been justice of the peace for a long while during the earlier years of his life. He was a son of Jesse Wood, who died in Kentucky while Jesse Jr. was quite young. The subject of this sketch, Fred A. Wood, in 1873, married Miss Elenora Hall, daughter of John S. and Elenora Hall, whose sketches appear elsewhere in this history. She was born near Pine Bluff October 20, 1848, and departed this world in 1885. Of this union were born four children, viz.: Carter E., Elenora E., James H. and Cornelius O. Mr. Wood settled on his present farm at Grady some time ago, and has achieved an enviable business reputation and considerable wealth by his own enterprise and energy. Besides farming he is largely interested in stock-raising, and has a beautiful home which was decorated and beautified by himself.