CAPTAIN HARDIN C. WOOD

CAPTAIN HARDIN C. WOOD DIED AT HIS HOME IN THIS CITY AT 10 O’CLOCK P.M. MONDAY AFTER A SHORT ILLNESS OF PNEUMONIA.  HE WAS BORN IN JACKSONVILLLE, TN. IN 1832 WHERE HE SPENT HIS YOUTH AND YOUNG MANHOOD.  IN 1858 HE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO MISS MARY E. RIDDLE, WHO DIED IN 1863. TO THIS UNION WERE BORN TWO CHILDREN, ONE OF WHOM DIED IN INFANCY AND THE OTHER SCOTT WOOD OF HATFIELD, WHO SURVIVES.  MR. WOOD WAS MARRIED A SECOND TIME TO MISS LUCINDA RAINS OF WILLIAMSON COUNTY, IL., WHERE THEY RESIDED FOR SEVERAL YEARS.  TO THEM WERE BORN FOURTEEN CHILDREN OF WHOM ELEVEN ARE LIVING.  THEY ARE COURTUS WOOD, MRS. BELLE HAYES, W. M. WOOD, MRS. GRANT SMITH, VANCE WOOD, JOHN WOOD, JOSEPH WOOD, MISSES RACHEL, CORA AND GERTRUDE WOOD, ALL OF MT. AYR, AND MRS. FLORA GRAY OF TINGLEY.  MR. WOOD AND FAMILY REMOVED FROM ILLINOIS ABOUT SIXTEEN YEARS AGO, SETTLING IN HARRISON COUNTY, MO., WHERE THEY RESIDED 10 YEARS.  IN 1895 THEY CAME TO MOUNT AYR WHERE THEY HAVE SINCE RESIDED.  MR. WOOD WAS AN OLD SOLIDER AND CAPTAIN OF COMPANY B, 89TH ILLINOIS VOLUNTEERS, AN HONORABLE AND UPRIGHT MAN AND RESPECTED BY ALL WHO KNEW HIM.  SHORT FUNERAL SERVICES WERE CONDUCTED AT THE HOME YESTERDAY BY REV. L.C. SWAN AND THE REMAINS WERE TAKEN TO THE KIRKSVILLE CEMETERY NEAR ALLENDALE, MO. FOR INTERMENT.