Herbert Wesley Wood, Sr.

Notes:

Laura Buckmaster shows that he married Ella Mae COATS, and has his place of birth as Cumby, Hopkins Couty, Texas.

Name: Herbert Wesley Wood
Death Date: 03 Oct 1960
Death Place: Beaumont, Jefferson, Texas
Gender: Male
Race: W
Death Age: 61 years
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Birth Date: 30 Nov 1898
Birthplace: Pineland, Tx
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name:
Father's Name: Charles A Wood
Father's Birthplace:
Mother's Name: C Wright
Mother's Birthplace:
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Film Number: 2116475
Digital Film Number: 4166567
Image Number: 2743
Reference Number: v X cn 60805
Collection: Texas Deaths, 1890-1976

When he completed his registration for the draft during the First World War, he indicated he was farming in Pineland, Sabine County, Texas for C. A. Wood, who was also his closest relative.
He was of Medium heighth and slender build, with brown eyes and black hair. FindAGrave shows his parents as Charles Ayers Wood and Larissa Cordelia Wright.

From FindAGrave:

Herbert Wesley Wood, Sr. was a farmer, mill worker, construction worker and master mechanic. He grew up in Pineland, Texas. He and his brothers had a band and played for dances. In Pineland he met and married Ella Mae Coats. They were married in or next to a Model T Ford. Ella Mae said of him that she never knew if she married him or a car! He opened a garage in Pineland. Their son, Herbert, Jr. was born in that town. The family moved to Forest, Nacogdoches and finally settled in Beaumont. He worked at the Buick dealership where his young family lived in an apartment above the garage. Later, he opened a garage on Highland Ave. in the South Park community of Beaumont. His son, Herbert, Jr. later joined him, and the business became Wood and Son Motors. The family was active in the South Park Baptist Church, and part of the close-knit South Park community. He was a quiet man and was dedicated to his family.


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Census Listings:

1930 Census
Texas, Jefferson County, Precinct 6
Enumerated April 16, 1930
ED 123-79 SD 27 Sheet 6A Stamped 159
Highland Ave
4766-107-121
Wood, Herbert W. Head M W 31 M 22 Tx Tx Tx Mechanic Automobile
Wood, Ella M Wf F W 26 M 18 Miss Miss Miss
Wood, Herbert W Son M W 7 S Tx Tx Miss
Wood, Virginia M Dtr F W 5 2 Tx Tx Miss
Wood, Mary A Dtr F W 1 6/12 S Tx Tx Miss

Herbert married Ella Mae Coats on 18 Mar 1922 in Pineland, Sabine County, Texas. Ella (daughter of William Pollock Coats and Lula Virginia Boswell) was born on 13 May 1903 in Richton, Perry County, Mississippi; died on 18 Jan 1997 in Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas; was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park and Funeral Home, Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The Sabine County Reporter
December 15, 2010, page 12

Herbert Wesley Wood, Jr.

Herbert Wesley Wood, Jr., 87, died Friday, Dec. 10, 2010, in Twin Lakes Care Center in San Augustine after an illness. Wood was born in Pineland to Herbert and Ella Mae Coats Wood.

He had lived near Hemphill since 1982 coming from Beaumont where he was owner and operator of Wood and Son Motors. Wood was a U. S. Air Force veteran of World War II. He was also a member of the Gideons, Rotary Club, Littleton Fowler Masonic Lodge #305 Shrine, and a Deacon of the First Baptist Church in Hemphill.

He is survived by his wife, Lorene Boyett Wood of Hemphill; son, Terry and wife Cindy Wood of Beaumont; daughter, Robin and husband Kelly Powell of Sour Lake; and sister, Virginia Christopher of Boerne. He is also survived by seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Funeral services were conducted Sunday, Dec. 12, in the Starr Funeral Home Chapel. Burial followed in the Weaver Cemetery in Mayflower community.

Services were under the direction of Starr Funeral Home in Hemphill.

(Transcribed by Melinda McLemore Strong, December 2010)

A similiar obituary was published in the San Augustine Tribune on December 16, 2010.

Herbert married Frances Lorene Boyett on 16 Jul 1949 in Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas. Frances (daughter of Hamp Hansford Boyett and Mittie Weaver) was born on 3 Nov 1927 in Sabine County, Texas; died on 26 Jan 2021 in Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas; was buried in Weaver Cemetery, Newton County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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From FindAGrave:

Mary Ann Strickland was born in Beaumont, Texas in 1928 to Ella Mae and Herbert W. Wood, Jr. She was the third of four surviving children. She lived in the South Park community in Beaumont and was a member of South Park Baptist Church.

Mary Ann attended Lamar University, the University of Texas and graduated from Sam Houston State University with a B.A. in chemistry in 1949. While at Sam Houston, she met her future husband, Robert L. Strickland, at the Baptist Student Union. After graduating, she taught high school in Devers, TX. She was 20 when she began teaching. After they married, they attended Southern Seminary in Ky. They returned to Texas to start a family.

After Bob contracted polio in 1953, she resumed her teaching career. She was the family breadwinner and cared for her husband until his death in 1988. She taught elementary school in Dallas and Spring Branch, high school math in Houston. She eared a M.S. in Library Science and worked as a librarian in junior and senior high schools in Houston.

Mary Ann was active in her church. At Southland and Gulf Meadows Baptist churches in Houston, she served as Sunday School teacher, VBS teacher, committee member and librarian. Mary Ann had the gift of hospitality. She "adopted" several co-workers, students and church members.

In 1996, she moved to Austin where she was a member of Bannockburn Baptist Church. She kept a prayer journal for her Sunday School Class.

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Family/Spouse: Robert "Bob" Lackey Strickland. Robert was born on 26 Nov 1922 in Tyrone, Texas County, Oklahoma; died on 21 Dec 1988 in Houston, Harris County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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From FindAGrave:

Jerry passed away at her home.

Born and raised in Beaumont, she graduated from South Park High School in 1947. She graduated from The University of Texas in 1951 and worked for the State of Texas briefly before beginning a career in teaching and education administration.

She was awarded a Master's Degree from Lamar University in 1963 and a PhD from Texas A&M in 1982. During her career, she taught elementary school, junior high school math, high school math, education courses offered at Lamar, and was a principal at Brice Elementary in Mount Pleasant, Texas before her retirement in 1991.

She was active at First United Methodist Church most of her life and participated in numerous professional and community service organizations. She had many hobbies, including reading, cooking, gardening, and traveling.

Preceded in death by her husband, Doyle Slover Tierce survivors include her children, Virginia Ellen Wallace and her husband James Weldon Wallace and Paul Wood Tierce and his wife Amber White Tierce; grandchildren Paula Lynn Wallace, James Sterling Wallace and his wife Amanda Gardner Wallace and Michael Todd Wallace; brother Herbert Wesley Wood, Jr. and his wife Lorene Boyette Wood, sisters Virginia Wood Christopher, and Mary Ann Wood Strickland.

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Family/Spouse: Doyle Slover Tierce. Doyle was born on 10 Dec 1920 in Lockney, Floyd County, Texas; died on 9 Nov 2002 in Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]