THE WOOD-COOK BIBLE
Submitted November 10, 1998 by:
Charles Dobie,
P. O. Box 581,
Smiths Falls, ON, Canada.
K7A 4T6
email: cdobie@superaje.com
Transcribed for the Lanark County Genealogical Society
website by Charles Dobie.
This Bible is owned by Judith Olson, 10025 7th. St. E.,
St. Cloud, MN 56304-9701, U.S.A. It is a large-format New
Testament, with the Family Record pages being elaborately engraved
frames arranged in two columns per page. The entries too, are so
artistically engraved that some names are legible only with the
greatest difficulty. In fact, the penmanship is spectacular, and
reminds me of folk-art "love tokens" or engravings I've seen on old
silver coins.
The owner says: "Leonard Wood is my great-great-grandfather.
My grandmother was Claudia Emma Wood, a daughter of Guy Wood, who
was a son of Leonard. From what I have learned, they came from the
area around Cornwall, Ontario. This Bible came to MN with Guy. He
had a number of children who lived in or near Crosby, MN. Guy was a
blacksmith and a kind of a roamer . . ."
Transcript of the title page:
THE
NEW TESTAMENT
OF OUR
LORD AND SAVIOUR
JESUS CHRIST
TRANSLATED OUT OF
THE ORIGINAL GREEK;
AND WITH
THE FORMER TRANSLATIONS DILIGENTLY COMPARED AND REVISED.
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AUBURN:
PUBLISHED BY ALDEN, BEARDSLEY & CO.
OGDENSBURG:
CHITTENDEN & JUDSON.
1851.
Surnames in this file:
Cook
Wood
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[Note -- I've listed the photocopies of the birth and death pages
in date order]
// First page
Family Record
MARRIAGES MARRIAGES
Leonard Wood
To
Mgt Cook
Febrary 22nd 1825
[rest of page has no entries]
// Second Page
Family Record
BIRTHS DEATHS
Leonard Wood Mary Wood
January 21st 1805 June 24th 1827
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Stephen Wood
Margaret Cook
April 4th 1833
September 8th 1808 ----------------
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Sarah Wood
Mary Wood
November 23rd 1837
December 7th 1825 -------------------
------------------ Charles Wood
H O Wood
December 31st 1827 February 1st 1851
// Third Page
Family Record
BIRTHS DEATHS
N M Wood Benjamin Wood
November 1st 1837
January 25th 1830 aged 25 years
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Stephen Wood
April 4th 1832
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Sarah Wood
February 27th 1834
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L E Wood
April 18th 1836
// Fourth Page
Family Record
BIRTHS BIRTHS
Wm W Wood Charles Wood
June 10th 1838 September 3rd 1848
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A B Wood
G C Wood
October 13th 1840
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June 8th 1851
Hiram Wood --------------------
Catherine Wood
December 28th 1842
March 15th 1854
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Sarah Wood
March 28th 1845
// End of Wood-Cook Bible
[Notes -- Several of the initialed names above were impossible to
decipher. The initials used are those of people having matching
dates in Judith Olson's records. These are:
H O Wood, b. December 31 1827, matches Henry Osborne Wood
(looks like H U Wood)
N M Wood, b. January 25 1830, matches Nancy Margaret Wood
(looks like P H M Wood)
L E Wood, b. April 18 1836, matches Leonard Edmund Wood
(both initials undecipherable)
A B Wood, b. October 13 1840, matches Albert Wood
(looks like R B Wood) ]
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