Robert Cummings Wood

Robert Cummings Wood

Robert Cummings Wood, 1851-1923

• Father: Green Mark Wood b. 7 September 1814, d. 5 March 1898
• Mother: Mary Jane LeGrand b. 23 January 1830, d. 19 March 1900

• Robert Cummings Wood was born on 4 February 1851 in Walker County, Texas, at the old Sharp Whitley place.
• Green Mark Wood and Mary Jane LeGrand appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Danville PO, Walker County, Texas. Other members of the household included Robert Cummings Wood, Rush Brevard Wood, Solomon William Wood, Martha Frances P. Wood, Milton LeGrand Wood and George Scovell Wood.
• Green Mark Wood and Mary Jane LeGrand appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1870 in Huntsville, Walker County, Texas. Other members of the household included Robert Cummings Wood, Rush Brevard Wood, Solomon William Wood, Martha Frances P. Wood, Milton LeGrand Wood, George Scovell Wood, Campbell Clark Wood and Green Alexander Wood.
• He was a farm hand, according to the 1870 census.
• He married Margaret Elizabeth Wynne, daughter of Minor Darius Wynne and Sarah Willis Hopkins, on 11 March 1872 in Grimes County, Texas.
• Interesting that Margaret Elizabeth Wynne's father's first cousin Erasmus Wynne married a sister of James A. Anderson, whose wife Virginia Elizabeth Speight was a granddaughter of Green Wood's half brother Ashley Wood.
• Robert Cummings Wood and Margaret Elizabeth Wynne appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1880 in Walker County, Texas. Other members of the household included Fannie Ida Wood, Minor Green Wood, Lou Ella Wood and Hugh Wynne Hopkins Wood.
• He was a farmer, according to the 1880 census.
• With all their children in town for Green Mark and Mary Jane's 50th wedding anniversary celebration in April 1896, it is likely that this was the occasion for the photograph of their five surviving sons, treasured more than a hundred years later by all of their descendants.
• The following appeared on 20 October 1898 in the Navasota Examiner: R. C. Wood, of Dolph, was in town today.
• Robert Cummings Wood and Margaret Elizabeth Wynne appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Grimes County, Texas. Other members of the household included Milton LeGrande Wood, Mary Estelle Wood, Robert Cummings Wood Jr., Willis Alexander Wood, Minnie Katie Wood, Mildred Sallye Wood and Minnie Catherine Lockett.
• He was a farmer, according to the 1900 census.
• Robert Cummings Wood was Grimes County Clerk 1908-1912.
• R. C. Wood was Grimes County Clerk from 1908 to 1912.
• Robert Cummings Wood and Margaret Elizabeth Wynne appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Grimes County, Texas. Other members of the household included Minnie Katie Wood.
• He was County Clerk, according to the 1910 census.
• About 1915, R. C. Wood and his brother Rush were caught in a snapshot.
• Robert Cummings Wood registered for the draft on 12 September 1918 in Grimes County, Texas, while living with his wive in Anderson, and employed there as a miller by Hurst & Jennings.
• Robert Cummings Wood and Margaret Elizabeth Wynne appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920 in Anderson, Grimes County, Texas. Other members of the household included Robert Cummings Wood Jr. and Minnie Katie Wood.
• Robert Cummings Wood died on 7 January 1923 at age 71 in Houston, Harris County, Texas, at 1910 Caroline Street.
• His wife Margaret Elizabeth Wynne became a widow at his death.
• He was interred at Oakland Cemetery, Navasota, Grimes County, Texas.

• Last Edited: 14 May 2015

• Charts: Descendants of ABERCROMBIE Charles & Edwina Malinda "Dicey" Booth, Descendants of LeGRAND John & Margaret Chambers, Descendants of WOOD William & Lydia Ballentine