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Unknown Unknown 1700-1236-0000.jpg PO-1236 B&W 1700-1236-0000 1700-1236-0000 Photo Card Print 4x6 Historic Photographs May, 1878 Reproduction requires permission. Digital images property of SHM Library & ArchivesDescription
Handwritten on the photograph is the following:
Back row, left to right: Willie (Will) -- 15 yrs, Hattie -- 11 yrs, Albert -- 13 yrs.
In front, left to right: Rose (Rosa) -- 9 yrs, Ella -- 7 yrs.
May 1878 -- Walnut Grove, Arizona.
Walnut Grove was located in Yavapai County, Arizona near Kirkland, AZ. It is famous as the site of the 1890 Walnut Grove Dam Disaster when the dam collapsed flooding the canyon and causing the deaths of an estimated 70-100 people.
The children's parents were Joseph Orville (b. 1831 - d. 1913) and Mercy Newton Wood. Mr. Wood was born February 15, 1831 in Barre, Vermont and died in 1913 in Las Vegas, New Mexico. He was survived by his wife, two sons -- William Orville Wood, Las Vegas, New Mexico and Albert Thomas Wood, Ogden, Utah; and three daughters -- Mrs. R. R. Rogers, Los Angeles, California; Mrs. W. J. Davis, Jerome Junction, Arizona; and Mrs. M. H. Dice, Los Vegas.
In 1858, Mr. Wood moved to New Mexico, returning to Barre, Vermont in 1861 where he married Miss Mercy Newton Wilson. The couple then settled near Fort Stanton, New Mexico moving to Boise, Idaho in 1875 after the fort closed. Mr. Wood was involved with several mines and stock raising enterprises. From there, the family moved to Oregon and then to Prescott, Arizona. In 1878, the family moved to Cowley County, Kansas and in 1879 to Las Vegas, New Mexico. Mr. Wood was a millwright by trade.
The 1880 census shows son, Albert T. Wood, age 13, living in Las Vegas, San Miguel, New Mexico and his occupation as clerk. Other family members listed were his father, mother, brother Willie and sisters Minnie and Ellen. (note variation in daughter names from those shown on photograph). The 1885 census shows him in the same location with his father, mother, brother Willis, and sisters Hattie A. and Winna R. (note variation in sibling names from those shown on photograph).
Sources: Newspapers.com: Las Vegas Optic, 1913 Joseph O Wood Obituary; Legends of America, Walnut Grove Dam Disaster – Arizona. Ancestry.com census reports: 1880 United States Federal Census and 1885 New Mexico, U. S., Territorial Census.
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