Isaac Wood

As printed in 1881

ISAAC COREY WOOD. retired farmer; P. O. Springfield. This well-known pioneer comes of pure English origin, his paternal and maternal grandfathers, Jeremiah Wood and Thomas Corey, having been natives of England, who settled in New Jersey at an early day. Here his father, Isaac Wood, was born, July 10, 1771, and was married, Oct. 9, 1797, to ‘Jane Corey. a native of that State, born July 2. 1779, and in 1798 they came West and settled in Warren Co., Ohio, where they remained until March, 1812, when they came to Clark County, settling on Sec. 15. Springfield Township, removing, in the following: year, to Sec. 9, where his son Thomas now resides; they had thirteen children; six are yet living; five sons reside in this county, and one daughter in Allen Co., Ohio; he died Aug. 24, 1825, his wife surviving him forty-six years, dying May 12, 1871. The subject of this sketch was born in Warren Co., Ohio, May 16, 1802; removed with his parents to this county in 1812, and here grew to manhood, attending the primitive log schoolhouse a short time, where he learned. the rudiments of reading, writing, etc. On the 15th of June, 1825, he was married to Honora Scantlin, daughter of Jeremiah and Diana Scantlin, he a native: of Ireland and she of Virginia, her father being killed in the war of 1812, while bravely fighting against the English foe, sacrificing his life in behalf of freedom and to defeat the oppressors of his native land. Mrs. Wood was born in Virginia Dec. 12, 1808, and, after her father’s death, her mother married John Collins, who died in that State, when she was married to Spalding Winchester, who came: with the family, in November, 1822, to Clark County, settling in the west part. of Harmony Township, removing thence to Springfield Township, where they died in 1857, sincere members of the M. E. Church, she dying Aug. 15, and her husband Sept. 15, of that year. About forty-five years ago, Mrs. Wood joined. the Free-Will Baptist Church, and has since taken an active interest in that. denomination. Politically, Mr. Wood was a Whig, casting his first vote for Clay in 1824, but, upon the formation of the Republican party, he joined its ranks, and, since his first vote, has never missed casting his ballot for the Presidential nominee of his party, and has always been an Abolitionist; he has been. 8 rigid temperance man all his life, and his honesty and integrity are too well known to be doubted, his word at all times being as good as his note. On the 15th day of June, 1875, they celebrated their golden wedding by an excursion to the Soldiers’ Home at Dayton, whither they were accompanied by twenty-two of their friends, and, if both live to the same date of June, 1881, £hey will be: fifty-six years man and wife—an event that seldom occurs in the annals of married life. Mr. Wood belongs to no church, his motto through life being the Golden Rule, which he has ever tried to follow in all his transactions with his fellow-men. For over sixty-nine years he has lived in Clark County, and has judieiously.saved.the,results.of his industry, but is without children on whom. to ‘bestow his means; he has retired from active business, and, with his aged wife, is now enjoying the blessings of. a moral, well-spent life.

As printed in The History of Clark County Ohio, (1881). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.