Wood
Graveyard
Located 2 miles from Smithville, Clay County,
Missouri
Name: Col. Lewis Jefferson Wood, sr.
Birth Date: 12 Jul 1812
Comment: born, Gordon Station, Mercer Co., Ky.;
He was one of five sons born to William Wood and
Sarah Thomas Gordon Wood who came to Clay County,
Mo., in 1832
Name: Gen. Jesse Wood
Comment: settled at Columbia, Mo.
Name: Judge William Thomas Wood
Comment: prominent as an early day lawyer
Name: Judge Isaac Wood
Comment: came to Smithville, Mo., in company with
Col. Lewis Jefferson Wood
Name: Dr. Joseph Madison Wood
Comment: began his career as a doctor in Liberty, Mo.
The Wood private burial ground is some distance up in
the pasture, back of the house, that is, what is left
of it. This cemetery has succumbed to the decay of
time and man and nothing is left but the base of a
large granite monument with the name Wood carved on
it.
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This page was last updated
June 7, 2005.