Esther Cranmer and Henry Wood

HENRY WOOD was born August 9, 1790 in New York,⁴⁴¹⁴ and died October 14, 1882 in Summit County, Ohio.⁴⁴¹⁴ He is buried in Northfield Macedonia Cemetery, Summit County, Ohio.⁴⁹²⁰

He married ESTHER CRANMER on September 22, 1813 in Portage County, Ohio,²³⁷³ daughter of HANNAH COLE and JEREMIAH CRANMER. She was born November 29, 1795 in New York, and died in May, 1863 in Northfield, Summit, Ohio. She is buried in Northfield Macedonia Cemetery, Summit County, Ohio.⁴⁹²⁰

• Descendant Reports
  • Joshua Cole Descendant Report (Ancestor of Esther Cranmer)
  • Jeremiah Cranmer Descendant Report (Ancestor of Esther Cranmer)

Children of ESTHER CRANMER and HENRY WOOD:

1. PHOEBE WOOD, b. January 3, 1814, Northfield, Summit, Ohio;^{4414, 4922} m. AMOS RICHARDSON on November 7, 1832 in Portage County, Ohio²³⁷³; d. November 25, 1886, Northfield, Summit, Ohio.⁴⁴¹⁴
2. MARTIN WOOD, b. February 24, 1818, Independence, Cuyahoga, Ohio;³⁵²⁷ m. ESTHER URSULA EGGLESTON on July 30, 1839 in Quincy, Adams, Illinois³⁵²⁷; d. September 14, 1864, Upper Bear River Station, Evanston, Uinta, Wyoming.³⁵²⁷
3. MARIA WOOD, b. January 2, 1823;⁴⁹²⁰ m. CHAUNCEY S. PECK; d. November 6, 1881.⁴⁹²⁰
4. ESTHER WOOD, b. March 7, 1833;⁶¹⁹ m. ALBERT R. HAMMOND on May 6, 1853 in Summit County, Ohio¹⁷⁸⁶; d. April 30, 1915, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio.⁶¹⁹
5. HENRY JEREMIAH WOOD, b. 1837; d. January 31, 1845; bur. Northfield Macedonia Cemetery, Summit County, Ohio.⁴⁹²⁰

Summit County Beacon, April 21, 1880²⁶⁷³

PIONEER MATTERS.

INTERESTING RECOLLECTIONS OF HENRY WOOD, OF NORTHFIELD.

Daily Beacon, April 19.

Mr. Henry Wood, of Northfield, Summit County, who will be 90 years old in August next, has deposited with the Historical Society of Cleveland, the written reminiscences of his long life. The Herald says that before he was of age his parents moved from Herkimer County, N. Y., near Utica, to Cuyahoga County, in the Spring of 1810, with the family of Amos Ives, his uncle on the mother's side. William King, of Newburg, had returned from Ohio to Herkimer County, and he was engaged to manage their boat. They put their craft and all their wordly good afloat at Utica on the 23d of May. Mr. Wood's father, his uncle, himself and brother Samuel, with the pilot King, furnished the motive power to stem the current of the Mohawk, the waves of Oneida Lake, Lake Ontario, and Lake Erie.

On the 22d June their boat entered the Cuyahoga river, to find that the renowned "City of Cleveland" consisted of four frame buildings.

The family located in Independence, on Tinker's creek. In the Fall of the same year a widowed lady of that neighborhood, was so badly hurt that a physician was indispensable. Young Wood was furnished with a good horse and started for Cleveland in the night, a distance of 12 mles, six of it without a house. He was also furnished with a tin lantern, inside of which was a lighted candle. Dr. Long was the only physician in the county. His house was reached before daybreak, but he declined to go until it was light. They rode together to the edge of the six-mile woods at Newburg, where the Doctor left his horse and made the trip to Tinker's cree and back through the mud, on foot. The next great event was a New Year's ball of which this is the account:

"We hitched up a two-horse wagon and on the 1st day of January, 1811, four young men beside myself, and three girls, got into the wagon and started for Cleveland. We had six miles of woods to go through in the start, and the roads bad, but we got through safe, and went into the city. There were then four frame houses in Cleveland. The house where the ball was held was not a frame house; it was of hewed logs, two stories high, sided up on the outside, and lath and plaster on the inside, but it was a very good room for a new country. It belonged to Major Carter. We stayed all night and started home in the morning. When we got about half of a mile into the six-mile woods our wagon broke, and we had to leave it. There were three girls and five young men, only two horses, no saddles, and six miles of woods before us. Finally two of the youn men took the horses with the harness on and each of them a girl behind, and one of the three girls took turns going on foot. Three of the young men went through on foot, and we all got home safe. I am the only one now living of the party, and when I look back I feel lonesome since my old associates are all gone."

Mr. Wood worked as a carpenter in Cleveland with Levi Johnston. Soon after the surrender of General Hull, in 1812, he enlisted as a fifer in General Wadsworth's command at the camp at Old Portage. From thence he was marched to the frontier port on Huron river, where he was promoted to fife major. Mr. Wood witnessed the hanging of the Indian Omic on the Public square in June, 1812. The military on that occasion kept step to the music of his fife. If our space would permit, there would be more interesting extracts from this record of pioneer life in Cuyahoga county.

Northfield-Macedonia Cemetery, Nortfhield, Summit, Ohio

ESTHER
wife of
HENRY WOOD
DIED MAY ??
A. 67 Yrs ? Mos.

HENRY JEREMIAH
Son of
H. & E. WOOD
DIED JAN. 31, 1845
A. 8 Yrs. 1 Mos.

HENRY WOOD
DIED
OCT. 14, 1882
AGED 98 YRS.