Stephen WOOD
WAS POSSIBLY BAPTISED BY EITHER BRIGHAM YOUNG OR HEBER C KIMBALL SINCE THEY
WERE PRESENT AT THE TIME AND HAD ORDAINED HIS BROTHER GEORGE TO THE PRIESTHOOD.
SHE REMARRIED AFTER THE DEATH OF HER HUSBAND STEPHEN WOOD. HIS NAME WAS WILLIAM
DAVIES. HE WAS PROBABLY LDS BECAUSE THEY CAME OVER BY CART AND WENT TO SALT
LAKE CITY. THEY ENDED UP IN SAN BERNARDINO. SHE WAS BURIED IN THE MORMON PART
OF THE CATHOLIC CEMETARY. THE OBITUARY LISTED HER AS A MEMBER OF THE CATHOLIC
CHURCH. SHE, AFTER DEATH WAS SEALED TO HER FIRST HUSBAND. THE CHILDREN BY THE
SECOND MARRIAGE WERE ALSO SEALED TO THE FIRST HUSBAND WHO WAS NOT THEIR BLOOD
AFTER SAMUELS FATHER DIED HE BECAME CLOSE TO HIS UNCLE GEORGE.HE CONSIDERED
HIS UNCLE GEORGE HIS ADOPTED FATHER. WHEN HIS MOTHERS NEW HUSBAND WILLIAM
DAVIES WAS INSTUCTED TO MOVE THEY DID TO A PLACE THAT WOULD EVENTUALLY BECOME
KNOWN AS CEDAR CITY. IN THE LATE SUMMER OF 1853 THE DAVIES DECIDED TO MOVE TO
CALIFORNIA. YOUNG SAMUEL WAS 10 YEARS OLD. IT IS NOT CERTAIN WHETHER HE WAS
ALREADY LIVING WITH HIS UNCLE GEORGE OR THEY WERE JUST EXTREMELY CLOSE. HE HID
IN THE CORN FIELDS SO HIS MOTHER COULDN'T FIND HIM WHEN HTEY LEFT. HE WOULD
NEVER SEE HIS MOTHER OR BROTHERS AGAIN.
He married Mary Ann Raybould 3 Nov 1840 at West Bromwich, Staffordshire, Stafford, England . Mary Ann Raybould was born at Netherton, Worcestershire, England, England 31 Oct 1819 daughter of John Raybould and Rosetta Rolinson .
They were the parents of 3
children:
John Wood
born 9 Aug 1841.
Samuel Wood
born 1 Jan 1843.
Stephen Wood
born 10 Apr 1845.
Stephen Wood died 9 May 1849 at Mississippi .
Mary Ann Raybould died 25 Dec 1878 at San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California .