Robert Hutchinson Wood
Robert Hutchinson Wood was born June 13, 1794. Stephen Wood, an ancestor, came from England and located in Hempstead, Queens County, New York. His youngest son, Benjamin, married Leah Robbins, in Hempstead. Joseph, the only son of Benjamin, was born in 1742, and was the father of seven children. His oldest son was Benjamin, born in July, 1769. Our subject was the third son and sixth child. He was born in Mason County, Kentucky, where his father had removed. His eldest brother, Benjamin, moved to West Union in 1804 and resided there until 1815, when he removed to Chillicothe, Ohio, and afterwards to Portsmouth, Ohio, in 1823, where he died in 1824. Benjamin Wood kept a tavern in West Union where Lewis Johnson now resides, and was a Captain in the Militia. The wife of Benjamin was Sarah Huston, born August 30, 1774. She died April 2, 1844, at Troy, Indiana.
Robert Hutchinson Wood was married to Sarah Lodwick, September 29, 1818. She was the eldest child of Col. John Lodwick. Their daughter, Nancy Jane, married Dr. Hiram G. Jones, and was the mother of two children, a son and a daughter.
Robert H. Wood, our subject, followed the trade of a cabinet maker in West Union for many years He had a shop in a building recently removed, just south of the residence of Dr. B. F. Slye, and resided in the house now owned by Dr. Slye. Mr. Wood was a highly esteemed citizen of West Union. He believed in advertising, and had a standing advertisement of his business in the Free Press, with a picture of a side board as a part of his card. He was prosperous in his business and was the undertaker for the village. Many of the pieces of furniture made by his own hands are still in existence.
He died of consumption, July 30, 1835, and is buried in the Old South Cemetery at West Union. He was a member of, and an elder in, the Presbyterian Church there. He owned the ground occupied by the Old South Cemetery until 1834, when he conveyed it to parties having friends buried there, to be used for burial purposes.
From "History of Adams County, Ohio from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time" - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers - West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900