Person:Olivia Daniel (1)

OBITUARY OF OLIVIA LEE DANIEL WOOD From The Roanoke Leader June 13, 1938 Mrs. Wyatt Wood Passes At Her Home On Louina Street

Mrs. Olivia Daniel Wood died at 4:30 Monday morning at her home on Louina Street. She had suffered a stroke of paralysis recently and gradually grew weaker until the end came. Funeral services were conducted Tuesday afternoon at the residence by her pastor, Rev. H. P. Williams, assisted by Revs. T. E. Steely and Belt White. Burial was in the local cemetery with Quattlebaum directing.

Mrs. Wood was the widow of the late Wyatt W. Wood, long prominent in the business interests of this community. She was 73 years old. Surviving are five children: Mrs. W. T. A. Huey, Mrs. H. D. Cowden, Blake Wood, of Roanoke; Theo Wood, of Jackson, Miss.; Mrs. C. G. Rogers, of Baltimore; four brothers: George and H. D. Daniel, of Frankling (should be Franklin), Ga., and Rufus and Frank Daniel, of Oklahoma.,

In the death of this good wife and mother another of Roanoke's early residents has gone. For many years ill health had prevented her activities outside her home and many of those who have moved here in recent years did not know her, but those who have lived here longer knew her well, sorrow at her passing, and sympathize with her loved ones in their sorrow.

the daughter of Isham Daniel and Barbara Miller, and the granddaughter of John Daniel and Dovey Plaster, and John Miller and Tabitha Hammond.

Olivia was born 10 Dec. 1864 in Heard County, GA, and died 13 June 1938 in Randolph County, Alabama. On 8 Feb. 1882, she married Wyatt William Wood, son of Judge William Thomas Wood and Nancy Blake Wood, a prominent family in Heard County, Georgia and Randolph County, Alabama.

Wyatt was born 4 Sept. 1857, and died 2 Feb. 1932. He was the grandson of Col. Winston Wood and Dicey Gay Wood, and Thomas Blake and Delaney Young Blake. The Blakes were pioneer settlers of Randolph County, as were many members of the Wood family.

Wyatt and Olivia Wood had seven children: Annie Lee who marriedW.T.A. Huey; Tommie May; Willie Dicy who married Harry Dunlap Cowden; WinstonTheo; Jessie Cora who married Charles Goodwyn Rogers, Sr.; Wyatt Blake Woodwho married Annie Jim Patrick; and Robert Howell Wood. Birth records ofchildren and census records show that Wyatt and Olivia moved to RandolphCounty between 1896 and 1900 and there they lived out their lives. Both, alongwith all of their children except Jessie Cora Wood Rogers, are buried inCedarwood Cemetery in Roanoke, Alabama. Jessie Cora and her husband,Charles Goodwyn Rogers, Sr., moved to Baltimore, Maryland and are both buriedthere.

Research sources: Heard County, GA census records Randolph Co., AL census records "Southern Blakes" by Kate Blake Daus "A History of Heard County, Georgia and Its People" by LyndaEller "The History of Heard County, Georgia" by the Heard CountyHistorical Society Obituary of Olivia Lee Daniel Wood in the Roanoke Leader Cedarwood Cemetery Records, Randolph Co., AL "Heard County, Georgia Cemeteries" by Lynda Eller Family Bible records of Olivia Lee Daniel and Wyatt William Wood Personal information from Charles Goodwyn Rogers, Jr, and DavidBlake Rogers

• In the 1870 Heard County census, Olivia appears as "Julia O."In the 1880

Heard County census transcribed by the LDS Church (online), sheis listed as "Clevia."