Wood Cemetery

Wood Family Cemetery

Richwood Township

Section 33, Township 39 North, Range 13 West

Miller County, MO.

From junction’s 42 & 17 in Iberia, take Hwy 42 west 3.2 miles to Ambrose Road. Turn left onto Ambrose Road and go .5 to the driveway of James Hall. This lone civil war stone is located behind the Hall residence high on a hill with a beautiful view. Beginning at a point of a larger Walnut tree at their left side yard go approximately 615 feet from behind the house to a point, which takes you to a plateau on top of a hill. This stone is not fenced nor taken care of, but someone had put reinforcement around his stone.

Personally inventoried by Dianna (Hale) Mattingly, Glenda (May) Crawford & Vera (Clark) Strutton - Sept 2002

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***The only name on the stone is N. B. Wood, but research has yielded his whole name.

Wood, Napoleon Bonaparte (Civil War Veteran)

abt 1830 - 1887 during Civil War

Captain - Co. D 42nd EN MO. Militia - Civil War

h/o Lucy Margaret (Dial) - died – 1890

Those listed below are for information only:

Their children

Mary A. Wood - abt 1850 – born in Texas

George Wood- abt 1853 - born in Missouri

Louis A. Wood – abt 1862 - born in Missouri

Jonathan A. Wood – abt 1866 - born in Missouri

Napoleon Bonaparte Wood

Was born in Kentucky circa 1830 and came to Richwood’s Township, Miller County, MO, about 1851 - 1852.

He and his wife Lucy Margaret (Dial) Wood evidently had lived in Texas before coming to central Missouri.

Their first child, Mary A. Wood, was born in Texas. Their other children were born in Missouri.

There isn’t much information about Napoleon Wood in the county records but it is believed they lived in western Richwood’s Township

before and during the Civil War. He was a veteran of that war, serving with the Union army in Company D of the 42nd Enrolled Missouri Militia. He was a 2nd Lieutenant under the command of Captain William Long. Captain Long was killed at his family farm near Iberia during the Civil War.

Napoleon is buried in a lone grave on land that was evidently their homesteaded property in Section 33, Township 39, Range 13, Miller County, Missouri. There are no dates on the military issued Civil War tombstone. It is not known if there are other members of his family buried along side of him in unmarked graves.

His grave is located a few miles west of Iberia behind the home of James Hall on Ambrose Road. The stone is behind the Hall home on a hillside with a beautiful view of the countryside. It is not fenced, but has been reinforced around the stone.

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