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Aubrey Austin Wood

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Aubrey Austin Wood

Birth
Linden, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada
Death
19 Aug 1954 (aged 74)
Oregon City, Clackamas County, Oregon, USA
Burial
Hoodview, Clackamas County, Oregon, USA Add to Map
Plot
Lot 85 Plot 5
Memorial ID
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Aubrey was son of John & Alice Wood. He inherited the family farm on Corral Creek on Graham's Ferry Road. Husband of Inza Wood. Their house still stands, replacing J & A's home which was flooded to the second story in Big Flood of 1898 (?) and later burned. Inza was a teacher at Corral Creek School in 1930's, later teaching at Wilsonville School.

Corral Creek School was a 1-room schoolhouse located just north of the intersection of Graham's Ferry & Wilsonville Road. There was a hand-dug well, but the children carried drinking water from a spring on the Wood farm (the spring still exists). Aubrey raised hops during the 1930's (hop house was razed in 1980's) and planted one of the early filbert orchards in the Valley, which still stands. Their barn collapsed in the Columbus Day Storm in 1962. Their farm was the site of an early oil exploration drilling which resulted in discovery of only an artesian water well, which still exists, though the artesian reservoir has been nearly depleted. No oil was found & the local farmer investors lost their investments.

Information by Stephen Baker
Aubrey was son of John & Alice Wood. He inherited the family farm on Corral Creek on Graham's Ferry Road. Husband of Inza Wood. Their house still stands, replacing J & A's home which was flooded to the second story in Big Flood of 1898 (?) and later burned. Inza was a teacher at Corral Creek School in 1930's, later teaching at Wilsonville School.

Corral Creek School was a 1-room schoolhouse located just north of the intersection of Graham's Ferry & Wilsonville Road. There was a hand-dug well, but the children carried drinking water from a spring on the Wood farm (the spring still exists). Aubrey raised hops during the 1930's (hop house was razed in 1980's) and planted one of the early filbert orchards in the Valley, which still stands. Their barn collapsed in the Columbus Day Storm in 1962. Their farm was the site of an early oil exploration drilling which resulted in discovery of only an artesian water well, which still exists, though the artesian reservoir has been nearly depleted. No oil was found & the local farmer investors lost their investments.

Information by Stephen Baker

Gravesite Details

Cemetery Surveyor and Information gathered by: C. Lehan



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