Seth Wood

b. 7 June 1907, d. 13 April 1993
  • Seth Wood was born on 7 June 1907 in Texas.
  • Mathew Stewart Wood appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Itasca, Hill County, Texas, at North Street. Other members of the household included Seth Wood, Griffin G. Wood, Albert Newton Wood, Pauline Wood and Horace Oliver Wood. Also in the household were housekeeper Anna Cook and her young son Paul. The enumeration actually was done on the 18th, less than a week after the death of Mathew's wife Addie.
  • Mathew Stewart Wood and Lila Ann Cheek appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920 in Itasca, Hill County, Texas, at 222 King Street. Other members of the household included Seth Wood, Albert Newton Wood, Pauline Wood, Horace Oliver Wood and Zelda Mae Reynolds. Son Seth also was enumerated in the Waco household of his widowed aunt Annie Monk Wood.
  • Annie Elizabeth Monk appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920 in Waco, McLennan County, Texas, at 1427 South Tenth. Other members of the household included Seth Wood, Elma Elizabeth Wood and Mary Katharine Wood. Nephew Seth Wood also was enumerated in the household with his family in Itasca.
  • Seth Wood appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in Giddings, Lee County, Texas, at Austin Street boarding in the household of commercial wholesale grocery salesman Lafayette Fariss.
  • He was employed as superintendent of a creamery manufacturing plant, according to the 1930 census.
  • He married Nettie Lee McDonald circa 1936.
  • Seth Wood appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1940 in Cuero, DeWitt County, Texas, at 507 Court House. Other members of the household included Jay Griffin Wood and Donald Albert Wood. In 1935, Seth and Nettie were living in Wichita Falls.
  • He was employed by a dairy as a butter maker, according to the 1940 census.
  • Seth Wood became a widower at the 30 August 1988 death of his wife Nettie Lee McDonald.
  • The SSDI lists Meridian, Bosque County, Texas, as the last residence of record of Seth Wood.
  • Seth Wood died on 13 April 1993 at age 85 in Bosque County, Texas.
  • He was interred at Hillcrest Garden of Memory Cemetery, Hillsboro, Hill County, Texas.
  • Last Edited: 2 Sep 2014

Family: Nettie Lee McDonald b. 3 July 1915, d. 30 August 1988