A little over a year passed before we saw any other Elders during which time quite a number of us continued to meet together and read scriptures and we became so convinced that it was necessary to be baptized that we requested Mr. I continued to labor and accumulate and provide for my family until Eighteen hundred- thirty-two when a few of the Latter-Day Saints Elders came and preached the gospel in my own house when a number of the neighbors with myself believed in baptism but they left before any of us were baptized.
When I married Mary Snyder - daughter of John Snyder and Elizabeth Amey and commenced to do for myself in a place called the Seventh Concession which at that time was about two miles from my Father's house. I remained at home until I was twenty-two years of age. I may here state that our Father and Mother had fifteen of a family, nine boys and six girls. He a little over fifteen years and I fourteen still we were able to provide for the family which was becoming numerous. Though William and myself were but yet young. After some six years of hard labor, Father took a very severe cold, which eventually threw him in consumption and I am not aware that he was ever able to do a hard days work after that. He together with his oldest two boys (William and myself) labored almost day and night to clear the land of timber and make a home. He then moved from there to Loubourough near a place that is now called Sydnyham and took up a farm on land that was called at that time "Lease Land". When I was about three years of age my father moved his family to Earnestown, Upper Canada where he lived four or five years, and was an agriculturist. To begin I will give you my genealogy.ĭaniel Wood, the second son of Henry Wood and Elizabeth Demelt, and grandson of Daniel Wood was born October the sixteenth Eighteen hundred ,in Duchess County, State of New York. There will be no doubt to many incidents of my life pass unnoticed because of not having a perfect diary to refer to although I have preserved some of the most notable incidents through which I have passed - a synopsis of which I intend to sent you. Where incidents are narrated in which he had no personal participation.īrother Hosea- In fulfillment of my promise that I would send you a short sketch or history of my life since I left my Fathers' house. It had been his aim to present a true and unvarnished statement of facts as they transpired under his own observation. He has aimed since at simplicity of style and perspicuity than long, flowing and round sentences.
In compiling this brief narrative the author has used but few flourishes of diction. (Hosea Wood) who wished to receive a brief outline of the authors journey threw- life since he left his Fathers' roof. The following brief narrative has been compiled in compliance with a request of a brother of the author. Recopied into Wood Family RecordĪ letter to Daniel Wood's brother Hosea Wood Source: Original letters to Hosea Wood, dictated by Daniel Wood Sr. Resident of Bountiful, North Canyon Ward, Davis Co. (1800-1892) Autobiography of Daniel Wood Sr.
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