Departed this life at his residence, on the 5th February 1867, Mr. James WOOD, in the seventieth year of his age. At half past four in the evening he calmly breathed his last – exhibiting at the near approach of death, as he had throughout the period of his long and painful illness, the placid resignation, the uncomplaining patience and calm trust in God of the good man and steadfast christian – retaining almost to the last his clear intelligence, and evincing even then, a thoughtful regard for the welfare of others, and that rare sense of justice characteristic of him, and so touchingly suggestive of the cool judgement and the upright heart. To those who were acquainted with the estimable deceased, it were needless to recount his manifold virtue; to those who are mourning him the irreparable loss of a husband, a father, a neighbor or a friend, he has left the rich legacy of a faultless example, together with the priceless consolation that if they prove themselves but faithful to his dying advice, they may be permitted soon to meet with him again in that “better land” and reunite with him there in the endless rest which remaineth for the people of God.

The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.), 09 Feb. 1867, Page 2. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.