Major Wood
Title
Major Wood
Google Maps Link
Section
Lot
Grave
01
First Name
Last Name
Birth Date
[No marker]
Birth: Year
Death Date
1879
Death: Year
Age at Death
Approx. 90 years
Gender
Number of Persons on Marker
Source of Information
Information taken from Westwood Printout and grave marker, if available; check the original burial register at city hall for additional data
Comments
[No marker] Note that Lots I-117 through I-139 are located at the southern end of Section F (toward the pond).
Biographical Information
Once a slave; organ-blower; A brief biography in William E. Bigglestone, They Stopped in Oberlin: Black Residents and Visitors of the Nineteenth Century (Scottsdale, AZ: Innovation Group, 1981).
Burial Date from Printout
02/03/1879
Burial: Month
Burial: Day
3
Burial: Year
Lot Owner
Wood, Anna
Date Transcribed
07/29/2001
Default Latitude
41.28397382
Default Longitude
-82.23496754
Default Zoom Level
20
Collection
Citation
“Major Wood,” Westwood Database, accessed May 2, 2024, https://www.oberlinwestwood.org/omeka/items/show/52805.