William A. "Dancin Bill" Wood was a son of William Obediah "Revolutionary War Bill" Wood and his unknown first wife. . Between 1799 and 1805 William A. Wood married Hannah Austin (his second wife) and it's believed they had 15 children: Elizabeth "Betsy", George Washington, William Abraham "Squirrel", Nancy Rachel, William J., John W., Burrel Wood, Solomon "Bud", Obediah, Zelia Ann, Charity, Robert Jefferson, Justina Jane, Michael Marion, and Marion O. Wood.
He served in the War of 1812 as a Private in Davis' Battalion in the West Tennessee Militia. William A. Wood first moved to Arkansas in 1818. In the 1830s he served as a Judge in both Searcy County and Marion County.
Judge William "Dancin Bill" Wood was said to be the best dancer in Marion County; because of his exuberance of spirits and love for dancing, was sometimes called "Dancing Billy" Wood. It seems to have been a well educated family, with ambitions. They, like most of the early settlers in Marion County, had the Virginia Cavalier idea of life, rather than that of New England Puritan. They were probably (most of them) religiously inclined, but did not believe that religion meant giving up fiddling, dancing, horse racing and other (to them) innocent "thrills" of existence.
William A. Wood lived a long life and the difficult times made him face many family tragedies. His son John W. Wood (born in 1814, believed to be the year Bill's brother John Wood was executed by Andrew Jackson) was killed by bushwhackers in the Civil War. Two of Bill's grandsons were killed in the Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857. At the time of the massacre his grandsons Solomon R. Wood and William Edward Wood were 20 and 26 years old.
Burial Site: This burial site is an ancient one; a few Indians were the first interments here and pioneers were first interred here circa 1845. In the late 1800s there was a church house and school building nearby. The White River branch of the Missouri Pacific Railway passed near this spot also. John and Agnes Hudson were the first white people buried here. John Hudson settled the creek bottom just below the mouth of Georges Creek and cleared the first land there in 1833. Nearby George's Creek is named after "Dancin Bill's" son, George Washington Wood who owned land in the area before his father moved there.
He served in the War of 1812 as a Private in Davis' Battalion in the West Tennessee Militia. William A. Wood first moved to Arkansas in 1818. In the 1830s he served as a Judge in both Searcy County and Marion County.
Judge William "Dancin Bill" Wood was said to be the best dancer in Marion County; because of his exuberance of spirits and love for dancing, was sometimes called "Dancing Billy" Wood. It seems to have been a well educated family, with ambitions. They, like most of the early settlers in Marion County, had the Virginia Cavalier idea of life, rather than that of New England Puritan. They were probably (most of them) religiously inclined, but did not believe that religion meant giving up fiddling, dancing, horse racing and other (to them) innocent "thrills" of existence.
William A. Wood lived a long life and the difficult times made him face many family tragedies. His son John W. Wood (born in 1814, believed to be the year Bill's brother John Wood was executed by Andrew Jackson) was killed by bushwhackers in the Civil War. Two of Bill's grandsons were killed in the Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857. At the time of the massacre his grandsons Solomon R. Wood and William Edward Wood were 20 and 26 years old.
Burial Site: This burial site is an ancient one; a few Indians were the first interments here and pioneers were first interred here circa 1845. In the late 1800s there was a church house and school building nearby. The White River branch of the Missouri Pacific Railway passed near this spot also. John and Agnes Hudson were the first white people buried here. John Hudson settled the creek bottom just below the mouth of Georges Creek and cleared the first land there in 1833. Nearby George's Creek is named after "Dancin Bill's" son, George Washington Wood who owned land in the area before his father moved there.
William A. "Dancin Bill" Wood was a son of William Obediah "Revolutionary War Bill" Wood and his unknown first wife. . Between 1799 and 1805 William A. Wood married Hannah Austin (his second wife) and it's believed they had 15 children: Elizabeth "Betsy", George Washington, William Abraham "Squirrel", Nancy Rachel, William J., John W., Burrel Wood, Solomon "Bud", Obediah, Zelia Ann, Charity, Robert Jefferson, Justina Jane, Michael Marion, and Marion O. Wood.
He served in the War of 1812 as a Private in Davis' Battalion in the West Tennessee Militia. William A. Wood first moved to Arkansas in 1818. In the 1830s he served as a Judge in both Searcy County and Marion County.
Judge William "Dancin Bill" Wood was said to be the best dancer in Marion County; because of his exuberance of spirits and love for dancing, was sometimes called "Dancing Billy" Wood. It seems to have been a well educated family, with ambitions. They, like most of the early settlers in Marion County, had the Virginia Cavalier idea of life, rather than that of New England Puritan. They were probably (most of them) religiously inclined, but did not believe that religion meant giving up fiddling, dancing, horse racing and other (to them) innocent "thrills" of existence.
William A. Wood lived a long life and the difficult times made him face many family tragedies. His son John W. Wood (born in 1814, believed to be the year Bill's brother John Wood was executed by Andrew Jackson) was killed by bushwhackers in the Civil War. Two of Bill's grandsons were killed in the Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857. At the time of the massacre his grandsons Solomon R. Wood and William Edward Wood were 20 and 26 years old.
Burial Site: This burial site is an ancient one; a few Indians were the first interments here and pioneers were first interred here circa 1845. In the late 1800s there was a church house and school building nearby. The White River branch of the Missouri Pacific Railway passed near this spot also. John and Agnes Hudson were the first white people buried here. John Hudson settled the creek bottom just below the mouth of Georges Creek and cleared the first land there in 1833. Nearby George's Creek is named after "Dancin Bill's" son, George Washington Wood who owned land in the area before his father moved there.
He served in the War of 1812 as a Private in Davis' Battalion in the West Tennessee Militia. William A. Wood first moved to Arkansas in 1818. In the 1830s he served as a Judge in both Searcy County and Marion County.
Judge William "Dancin Bill" Wood was said to be the best dancer in Marion County; because of his exuberance of spirits and love for dancing, was sometimes called "Dancing Billy" Wood. It seems to have been a well educated family, with ambitions. They, like most of the early settlers in Marion County, had the Virginia Cavalier idea of life, rather than that of New England Puritan. They were probably (most of them) religiously inclined, but did not believe that religion meant giving up fiddling, dancing, horse racing and other (to them) innocent "thrills" of existence.
William A. Wood lived a long life and the difficult times made him face many family tragedies. His son John W. Wood (born in 1814, believed to be the year Bill's brother John Wood was executed by Andrew Jackson) was killed by bushwhackers in the Civil War. Two of Bill's grandsons were killed in the Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857. At the time of the massacre his grandsons Solomon R. Wood and William Edward Wood were 20 and 26 years old.
Burial Site: This burial site is an ancient one; a few Indians were the first interments here and pioneers were first interred here circa 1845. In the late 1800s there was a church house and school building nearby. The White River branch of the Missouri Pacific Railway passed near this spot also. John and Agnes Hudson were the first white people buried here. John Hudson settled the creek bottom just below the mouth of Georges Creek and cleared the first land there in 1833. Nearby George's Creek is named after "Dancin Bill's" son, George Washington Wood who owned land in the area before his father moved there.
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Headstones for this cemetery were destroyed or buried in the 1980s by practices of a new property owner.
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