To: Morgan
Cc: travillion@hotmail.com
Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 6:51 AM
Subject: Re: Charles Wood of Amherst Co, VA; Union District, SC;
Roane Co, TN

Hi David,
I am glad to hear from you.   We have lost contact with each other in
the last few years. 

We do have new paper documentation and it's backed up with DNA
testing.    DNA testing is proving lineages and disproving them as
well.
It's a wonderful new tool.   I have helped pay for numerous men to
DNA test in the Wood DNA project.

First of all two male descendants of Caleb Wood (married Polly
Oliver) from different sons have tested.  
One male from Francis Wood (son of John Wood of Amherst Co, VA) has
tested. 
Other males from various sons of John Wood's family line have
tested. 
All of the above are a perfect DNA match - they descend from a common
Y-Chromosome male Wood.

One or two males from Charles Wood of Frederick Co, MD have tested
and they do NOT DNA match our family.
Thus, after decades science has proven that we are NOT related in any
form to this Charles Wood. 
What a blessing to finally know the truth of that.

Research or paper documentation does NOT show that our Charles Wood
had a middle name of Caleb.   We find no
proof that Charles Wood's wife Rosa was a Watson.  In fact, we cannot
find where that information even came from !  

David and I proved that our Charles Wood (md Rosa) is NOT the same
Charles Wood of either service listed in
his Rev. War pension that our Caleb applied for in 1852.    Since I
did the original research on our Charles service
I knew that two men's service records were listed in that pension.  
I had disproved one of those listed in the pension and it appeared
to be the second service was our Charles Wood's.     But, that has
been prove now to not be the case.
Both of the service records belong to Charles Wood a mercenary from
Ireland who fought for the American Revolution out of Orange Co ,NC.
He was in SIX different units during the war and did receive a
pension for his service.   In a court record that David found  we see
all of those company units listed with him
giving dispositions of this fellow army men in detail so they could
get a pension.  

WE are now trying to prove which military service belongs to our
Charles Wood in VA and NC but not SC.   I read the Amherst and
surround counties of VA tax rolls up
to 1800 and found our Charles Wood in the exact district as his
brothers. We can pinpoint what year he left. We are looking into his
brother William Wood that removed to SC by 1790
(the one that was disinherited in his father's Will).  He received a
pension in TN.    Our Charles Wood did fight in the American
Revolution
but his pension is so messed up that it's unbelievable.    It was
probably why Caleb and his bro/sisters were denied the pension.  
Our Charles Wood did serve in the revolution but which company and
what state is still being researched.  

I am making another trip to the LDS library in November and hopefully
will be able to get more what David needs at that time. 

And yes, what David has sent you is 100% proven and I help him when I
can.   

Keep in touch with us more from sunny Hawaii !!

Your Texas cousin,
Janet