My Genealogy Hound

Reason L. Wood, one of the oldest native citizeus of Lauderdale County, is a son of Sabret and Mary E. (Thompson) Wood, both of whom were natives of North Carolina, where they married, and lived until 1825, when they settled in Middle Tennessee, and in 1827 moved to Lauderdale County, and lived there until they died; neither of them were church members. Mr. Wood was a Democrat. When Lauderdale was a part of Tipton County, he held the offices of deputy sheriff and magistrate; he was a farmer, and died in 1836, and the mother died in 1839. Our subject is of Irish extraction, and was born August 3, 1828, in Lauderdale County, was raised on a farm, and had poor school advantages, his parents having died when he was small. He worked for his brother until twenty-one years of age, then commenced farming for himself. In 1850 he married Sarah J. Currie, born November 25, 1831, and they had nine children—three sons and two daughters living. In 1879 Mrs. Wood died, and in 1880 he married Sarah A. Burks, born April 20, 1829; no children have been born to this union. Mr. Wood is of Presbyterian faith though not a church member; his first wife belonged to this church, and his present wife is a Methodist. He is a Democrat in his political views. Mr. Wood owns a farm of 232 acres, and has been a resident of Lauderdale County all his life, and is a good farmer and an upright citizen.