Ancestry of Maj. Gen.
Leonard Wood

Leader of the Rough Riders

Eli Wood

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• • Great-grandfather of Leonard Wood — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 8 
  • Father:
  • Mother:
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1753 
  • Birth Location:
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  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 18 Mar 1821 
  • Death Location:
  • Brookfield, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Evergreen Cemetery, East Brookfield, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Asenath Bragg
  • Marriage Date:
  • 13 Jun 1781 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Brookfield, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Leonard Wood (Ahnentafel No:4 )

  • Notes: 

  • Revolutionary War veteran

    Sources disagree on the parentage of Eli Wood. One possibility was that he was born at Wethersfield, Connecticut 22 OCT 1753, son of John Woods and Hephzibah Beckley. Another possibility is that he was born in Brookfield, Massachusetts, son of Benjamin Wood and Millicent Hamilton.

• Sources for Eli Wood

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A127772.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 04/26/2021).
  • ³ Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Birth records for children of Eli and Asenath Wood.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Death record for Eli Wood.
  • ⁵ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Brookfield, Vol. 1, p. 442, Marriage record for Eli Wood and Asenath Bragg.
  • ⁶ Jones, Matt Bushnell, History of the Town of Waitsfield, Vermont, 1782-1908, Lowell, Massachusetts: Courier-Citizen Company (1909), 245.