Date:  unknown

Image Number:   DW09cdDW01

Comments:  Cornelius "Neal" Wood was born about 1868 in Virginia and lived for many years on a farm just a few miles east of Scottsville near Beals Lane.  He was a farmer, who with his wife, Mary (Martin) Wood, raised a large family of four sons and eight daughters: John Wesley, Gertrude, Augustus, Katie, Hallie, Bernice, Ethel, Mary, Martin, Christine, Francis, and Arthur Wood.  Neal Wood died in a local house fire in the 1920's and is buried in the Wood Cemetery on Beals Lane near Scottsville.

This photo is part of the Dorothy Beatrice Woody collection.  Dorothy resides in Scottsville and is the daughter of John Wesley and Florence (Johnson) Wood; she is the granddaughter of Cornelius Wood.