Jeremiah Wood

1765 - Aft 1840  (> 76 years)

• Name	Jeremiah Wood  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Birth	1765  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Aft 1840
  Burial	Old Wood Graveyard, Harkening Hill, Bedford, VA, USA   [4]
  Person ID	I8653	Ancestrees
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2026

  
  

  Father	Thomas Wood, *,   b. 1735, Lunenburg, Lunenburg, Virginia, USA d. Bef 25 Feb 1793, , Bedford, VA, USA (Age < 58 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Elizabeth Unknown   d. Aft 1793
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	Bef 1765
  Family ID	F1292	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary "Polly" Dooley,   b. 1765   d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	28 Dec 1796	, Bedford, VA, USA   [2]
  Family ID	F1910	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2026

  
  

• Notes

  Jeremiah could have married more than once. There is a Jermiah Wood that married a Martha Feazle on Dec 7, 1829 in Bedford Co., VA. There is a Jermiah that marries Jane Preas on 12/29/1846 in that same county that also might be this Je. He is probably the Jeremiah Wood in Bedford County Census records in 1790, 1810, 1820 and 1840. In the 1810 one he is listed with 3 sons under age 10, 1 from 10-16, and he and his wife are between 26 and 45 years of age. They have 2 daughters under age 10, and 1 from 10-16. (CL-579) He and his wife, Mary Dooley Wood's cabin is still standing in what I am assuming is the National Park in Bedford County, Virginia. Jeremiah fought in the Revolutionary War with his wife's brothers. He was wounded at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse. He is listed as the son of Thomas Wood, Jr. in Bass's "My Southern Family" at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mysouthernfamily/myff/d0067/g0000018.html. He is also named along with likely sister Rachel Gaskins in the will of Reubin Dolard in Bedford Co., Virginia in 1802.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1737] 1810 Federal Population Census for Bedford Co., VA. [S74] William Wade Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy. [S1907] Chilton, Ann, Bedford County Will Book, vol. 1 (c1988). [S1908] Bass, Josephine Lindsay, My Southern Family (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mysouthernfamily/myff/d0067/g0000018.html, 2011).