Ancestry of Brig. Gen.
Henry Clay Wood

Medal of Honor Recipient
U.S. Civil War

Lydia Benson

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• • Great-grandmother of Henry Clay Wood — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 9 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Benson 
  • Mother:
  • Kezia Barrows   
  • Birth Date:
  • 27 Aug 1736 
  • Birth Location:
  • Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 21 Feb 1814 
  • Death Location:
  • Winthrop, Kennebec, Maine 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Henry Wood
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1 Aug 1754 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Deliverance Wood

  Mary Wood

  Hope Wood

  Samuel Wood

  Martha Wood

  Deborah Wood

  Keziah Wood

  Enoch Wood

  Elijah Wood (Ahnentafel No:4 )

  Susanna Wood

  Joanna Wood

  Henry Wood

• Sources for Lydia Benson

  • ¹ Wakefield, Robert S., ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 7, 2nd ed., Peter Brown, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2002), 96-97.
  • ² Wood, Ralph V., Jr., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 12, Francis Cooke, Revised Edition, Rockland, Maine: Picton Press (2011, revised edition 3rd printing), 515.