{"id":1050,"date":"2015-09-24T20:04:22","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T01:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:53:36","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:53:36","slug":"thomas-w-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/thomas-w-wood\/","title":{"rendered":"WOOD, Thomas W."},"content":{"rendered":"

THOMAS W. WOOD, M. D<\/strong>., of Shelbyville, Tenn., is a son of James and Eliza (Oberall) Wood<\/strong>, natives, respectively, of North Carolina and Virginia.\u00a0 The father was born February 10, 1798, and the mother May 13, 1806.\u00a0 They were married September 17, 1829.\u00a0 Ten children blessed their union:\u00a0 John A., William J., Melissa J., Thomas W., Sarah A., Horace O., Nancy P., Martha H., Eliza T. and James G<\/strong>.\u00a0 Mr. Wood<\/strong> came to Tennessee about 1810, and located in what is now Cannon County, where he remained about two years, and then moved to near Woodbury, where he died November 16, 1865.\u00a0 He had been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South for nearly forty years.\u00a0 The mother died September 11, 1874.<\/p>\n

Thomas W. Wood<\/strong> was born in Cannon County, where he received a good common school education, and attended the Lawrence Academy at Woodbury Station.\u00a0 At the breaking out of the war he joined the Eighteenth Tennessee Infantry, and participated in the battle of Shiloh and numerous skirmishes, and was selected as the one to receive the banner for his company, presented by the young ladies of Woodbury.\u00a0 Owing to ill health he was soon compelled to abandon active service, but was given a position in the commissary department and served as commissary sergeant until the close of the war.<\/p>\n

He was paroled at Macon, Ga., and after his return home engaged in farming and school teaching.\u00a0 He began his medical studies in 1867, and attended his first course of lectures in the medical department of the University of Nashville in 1868, 1869 and 1870, graduating the latter year.\u00a0 He has since practiced in Bedford County, and has built up an extensive practice.\u00a0 Dr. Wood was appointed by the county commissioner as physician for the poor asylum, and has held that position ten years.\u00a0 He was twice appointed deputy county clerk of Cannon County, and at one time lacked only a few votes of being the nominee of the Democratic party for representative of Bedford County.\u00a0 He was at one time salesman in a wholesale hat house in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

Transcribed by Kathryn Hopkins<\/p>\n

Goodspeed Publishing Co.\u00a0History of Tennessee from the Earliest Time to the Present: Together with an Historical and a Biographical Sketch of Maury, Williamson, Rutherford, Wilson, Bedford & Marshall Counties, Besides a Valuable Fund of Notes, Reminescences [Sic], Observations, Etc., Etc<\/i>. Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, 1988.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

THOMAS W. WOOD, M. D., of Shelbyville, Tenn., is a son of James and Eliza (Oberall) Wood, natives, respectively, of North Carolina and Virginia.\u00a0 The father was born February 10, 1798, and the mother May 13, 1806.\u00a0 They were married September 17, 1829.\u00a0 Ten children blessed their union:\u00a0 John A., William J., Melissa J., Thomas … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,4,3603],"tags":[3606,3614,3611,3605,3615,3607,3613,3609,3612,3610,3604,3608],"class_list":["post-1050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bedford","category-cannon","category-lawrence-academy","tag-oberall-eliza","tag-wood-eliza-t","tag-wood-horace-o","tag-wood-james","tag-wood-james-g","tag-wood-john-a","tag-wood-martha-h","tag-wood-melissa-j","tag-wood-nancy-p","tag-wood-sarah-a","tag-wood-thomas-w-dr","tag-wood-william-j"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1051,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions\/1051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}