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OBITUARYDaniel Wood was born in Dutchess County, New York, October 16, 1800. He was the second

child of Henry Wood and Elizabeth Demelt. His father remained in Ernest Town, Canada, withhis family in the year 1803 where he lived about five years, when he moved to the town ofSidneyham, Canada. Here he remained and became the happy parent of fifteen children; ninesons and six daughters. He made it a point to start his sons out with forty acres of land, one yokeof oxen, two cows and ten sheep.

At the age of twenty-two Daniel married Mary E. Snider and started out with his apportionmentand was prospered in this place for eight years, being blessed with three children, John, Henry,and Rebekan, when the elders of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints found him and anumber of prosperous neighbors, but they left with the little village a strong desire to investigateand be baptized, and by continuing their meetings as best they could alone. He became so

convinced that he should be baptized that he requested it of a Methodist. Shortly after Brighamand Joseph Young appeared and explained the order of the Church of Christ more perfectly andhad the privilege of leading the little already prepared colony down into the waters of baptism.

He was ordained an elder and remained and preached until the summer of 1834 when he sold hispossessions and with his wife and three children when to Kirtland, Ohio. He bought a farm fourmiles south of Kirtland and lived there until 1838 when he went to Davis County, Missouri,arriving there the 11th of June. There again he took up a farm bit was unable to remain onaccount of the mob. So about the first of October he went to the Far West area. Here the mobsurrounded them again and Joseph Smith and others were betrayed into the enemies hands andthe city was put under guard. They were out of provisions, having been driven from their grain.

So Daniel went in with the mob (called Soldiers) and with the rest gave the number of his familyand received is rations, they not being aware that he was a Mormon.

In February they started for Illinois., he had a cow he paid sixty dollars for. A party wanted tobuy her; he asked $18.00 but did not sell. On the road another came to buy and he asked $20.00.Again another came and he asked $22.00, and still another came and he sold at $24.00. He oughtto have gotten rich if he had not sold so soon, as he told the last he was going to raise $2.00every time.

He bought 40 acres of ground about eighteen miles from Nauvoo. Here the mob followed and hisson stood guard night and day while his mother was sick with ague and unhoused.

In 1845 he removed to Nauvoo. Here he became acquainted with Peninah Cotton, an orphan girl,and married her. They soon prepared to leave, not knowing where they were going. All theyknew is that they were following the inspiration of Brigham Young. Brigham asked them tobuild a cabin, and grow crops for the companies to come, so all could have at least occasionallygreen, fresh food, on the plains, as many families were asked to do along the plains route. Helanded in Salt Lake in the fall of 1848. He came to Bountiful immediately and built the fourth

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house in the settlement. It was the first on Mill Creek and was located where the county roadnow runs., just a little south of where Simmon's house now stands.

In about two years he located his far, having 180 acres. Four years later he undertook themammoth task of building that large adobe house, and completed the main part and soon

afterward added the back rooms. This was the largest and best house in this part of the country atthe time.

His family being quite large, he started school in his own house, taught by his wife, Emma, andas soon as possible he employed a male teacher. The school continued the greatest part of theyear, his own children faith fully attending; he obtained good support from the outside. Thus hisschool was a good start for the new country a thousand miles from Civilization.

About 1860 he built a family meeting house and 20 X 40, one story, with basement and belfryfrom which came the welcome chimes of his seventy dollar bell. To this building he moved hisschool. Meetings were held on every Wednesday night and on other special occasions. He had a

choir, and a string band in his own family, and was not too sanctimonious to have a jig even athis family meetings. One evening when Joseph Young was present at the meeting, the bandstarted up and he jumped out on the floor and showed those present how nimble he was. Thegeneral public was invited and they responded well. As he often had good speakers from the cityand elsewhere.

Every Christmas while other were feasting, his family was fasting and having meeting of prayerand making right little misunderstandings and disputes of the old year. Theses meeting werecontinued until quite recently.

He was in Canada, on a mission, when the Utah Central R.R. was put thru his field and the depot

located on his ground, but the family wrote the particulars, which did not please him. When hecame home it was late at night and when the conductor woke him by announcing the name of thestation, "WOODS CROSS" he replied, "yes, and darn cross, ground too good to raise corn to beused for a rail road.

He had been a great worker in his day, even at the age of seventy-five he could take a hand withmost of the younger men. He lived to the good age of ninety-two, and only books he read. Hisfirm frame might have been seen plodding along the streets only a few weeks before his death,and the day before he was taken sick he sat in his little private cemetery on his farm, where hehad twenty-five of his family laid, and showed his daughter where he wanted to by put away torest. This little treasure was his main one of late, and he kept an old chair there where he passedaway many hours.

He leaves a large family to mourn his loss, as he had tem wives, thirty-two children, and aboutone hundred grand children.

His funeral services were held in the East Bountiful Tabernacle, Wednesday 2 P.M. The standand casket were beautifully decorated. ON either side of the pulpit stood four nicely drapedflowerpots, six of which contained living plants in bloom, and remained two contained bouquets.

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Upon the white casket was place a sheaf of wheat and a beautiful arch of artificial flowers withthese words in violet upon a white background; "Welcome Home."

P.G. Sessions, Richard Duerden, E. Pace, David Stoker, Louis Grant, Archie Hill, Joseph F.Smith, and Heber J. Grant were the speakers.

The local brethren spoke on the views the deceased had entertained and on the praiseworthytraits of his character. Joseph F. Smith occupied most of the time. Said he had passed awayproving faithful to the end. The speaker mentioned that all the children of the deceased were inthe faith. The principle of death was commented upon and explained it to the only a separation ofthe body and the soul for a time, and that the Savior had redeemed us from the fall brought intothe world by Adam. He further said that as we are laid away so we all rise again on theresurrection day. When a child is laid away it will still be a child when it is resurrected. Hemaintained that members of the body which had been severed at or before death, could again beunited with the body at the resurrection as was the case with John the Baptist who appearedbefore Joseph Smith as a whole man, also Peter and James, the latter of who was beheaded. He

through the stunted, the crippled and the afflicted would, after the resurrection, grow to their fullstate, being perfect in every particular. In his closing remarks he hoped he would be able toremain faithful and unwavering to the end, as the departed brother has done.

Heber J. Grant mentioned a brief fule by which true doctrine would be told from false, which isthat true doctrine always brings us hope and joy.

After the audience had viewed the remains they were taken to their final resting place in his owncemetery. Sexton Taylor's hearse headed the procession, which consisted of fifty-six veguckes.

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Bountiful, UtahFriday, April 29, 1892Retyped by Staci Bailey - May 2003