Virginia E . b. 27 March 1867, d. 13 March 1939, m. George Wetmore b. 29 June 1865, d. 27 Nov 1941. They had 3 children: Florence Emma b. 21 Dec 1895; Harry Ernest b. 7 June 1898; Elmer A. b. 8 March 1900. Artemas Rayner b. 16 Aug 1869, d. 31 Dec 1950, m. Mary Ellen Hickey . Edward Matthew Edmund b. 27 Apr 1871, d. 14 Apr 1918, m. 28 March 1895 Annie Jane Bevans , b. 29 July 1874, d. 16 Nov 1949. They had 4 children: Annie Jane b. 25 Dec 1897; Edith May b. 8 Oct 1902; Edmund Matthew b. 1 Sept 1904; Lillian Gertrude b. 10 Feb ?. Jane A. b. 14 Apr 1873, d. 1891. Leonard Southmeade b. 16 Apr 1875, d. 29 Sept 1952, m. Maude Ester Cook , b. 12 Feb 1879, d. 18 Nov 1952. They had 9 children: Melville Southmeade b. 13 Sept 1896; Everett Bernard b. 24 Dec 1897; Edith Alexandria b. 11 June 1900; Everetta Maude b. 23 Nov 1902; Chester Eldin b. 10 Apr 1906; Irving Leon b. 20 Apr 1908; Leonard Elton b. 15 Jan 1912; Merrill Westcott b. 29 March 1916; Shirley b. 25 Aug 1917. Ida Maude b. 7 May 1877, m. George E. Webber , son of George and Ida Maude Webber . Harry b. 29 July 1879, unmarried. Russell Clayton b. 1880, d. 25 Dec 1952, m. 2 Feb 1907 Carrie Eva Carleton . Frederick b. 1880, died in infancy. Thomas Albert b. 19 Nov 1883, d. 1910. Albert Chester b. 27 Oct 1885, m. 6 Jan 1933 Fleata Viola Garrison . Grace Marion b. 28 Dec 1890, d. 1972, unmarried. ♦ ♦ ♦ 0- Mark b. 1839, d. 10 Jan 1887, son of Billy Wood and Margaret Enman, m. 28 March 1865 Susan Chandler , b. 1841, d. 26 Aug 1908, daughter of John Chandler , Mount Albion . Mark was a blacksmith by trade and operated a shop near the Tryon Woolen Mills. Mark Wood and Susan Chandler had 7 children: Albert b. 1866, d. 1946, 1st. m. Jane Harvey , ; 2nd. m. Elizabeth Gunn . William Henry b. 1 Oct 1868. No record. Celia Jane b. 5 March 1869, m. 3 May 1888 Smith Leard , son of Charles Wesley Leard . See Leard history. Emma b. 13 May 1871, d. 1930, 1st. m. Edward Gordon Howatt , b. 30 Jan 1870, d. 28 March 1909, son of David Howatt and Margaret McEachern . They had 2 children: John Godwell b. 27 July 1897, d. 17 Sept 1918, in WW I; Celia Amanda b. 17 March 1900, d. 14 July 1962, m. Arthur W. Jay . Emma 2nd. m. Donald Howatt b. 20 Feb 1867, d. 1 Apr 1954, brother of Edward. 381