Belfield WOOD W4492 West Tenn. #22319, $70/year issued 25 Oct 1853. Nancy MILSAP, former widow Bounty Land Warrant 94052.
Note: This soldier is listed as a Franklin county resident on an 1835 list. This may be an error, as there are no papers in the file form Franklin County,. Brief notes have been made for inclusion here.
Belfield WOOD was born about 1753 in Orange County Va., and was raised there and in Chesterfield County, Va. He served as a resident of Burke County, N.C. For 22 years after the war he lived in Pendleton District SC He also lived Wayne and Madison County, Ky., before removing to Tennessee. He resided in Fentress County Tenn., while drawing his pension. In 1810 he married Nancy KIDWELL in Pendleton District. They had a large family of children including Belfield WOOD Jr., with whom the widow lived in 1858 in Wayne County, Ky. In 1870 she was living with Calvin JONES of Wayne County, Ky.
Squire William DAVIS of Chilton, Ky. was a relative of Belfield WOOD.
Thomas DAVIS of that place stated in 1859 (at age 52) that Belfield WOOD was his father’s uncle.