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Daniel Wood Cemetery
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This small private cemetery, once known as Nathan's Burial Ground, is the final resting place of early pioneer settler Daniel Wood and many of his relatives, and it is one of the oldest burial plots in Davis County. Daniel Wood emigrated from Nauvoo, Illinois, to the Salt Lake Valley and arrived on July 23, 1848, with his wives, Mary Snider Wood and Peninah Shropshire Cotton Wood, and their families. They traveled north to Sessions Settlement, later called North Canyon Ward and now Bountiful. Daniel moved from Bountiful to what is now Woods Cross and filed on 120 acres of land, planting fruit trees on five acres of the southeast section of his farm. In 1857, two of Daniel's grandchildren, Elizabeth Yancey and Parley P. Yancey, died soon after birth and were buried beneath an apple tree. When Nathan Wood, son of Daniel and Emma E. Crowl Wood, fell from a farm wagon and was killed on August 17, 1858, Daniel marked off a three-rod square of land and dedicated it as a final resting place for his family, and Nathan was buried there near the graves of the two babies. Over the years other family members died and were buried there, including three adopted orphan Native American children who died during 1860-1861, and John Dutch, a hired man who lived with the Wood family for about five years and was buried in the northwest part of the cemetery. Daniel Wood lived until his 92nd year and died on April 25, 1892, and he was buried beside his first wife, Mary, in a place he had marked for himself in the family cemetery. At his death his family placed a monument there, and in the spring of 1893 his son Joseph Cotton Wood designed and built an iron fence around the family plot. Those buried there include Daniel and six of his wives, seven children, ten grandchildren, one great-grandson, two wives of his son John, three Native American children, John Dutch, and one stepson, for a total of thirty-two graves.
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