Samuel Jesse Wood was born January 10,1848 in Simpson county, Mississippi and died February 25,1883 in Mississippi. He married Jane Elizabeth Barnes on September 12,1872 in Mississippi. She was born 1848 in Mississippi and died April 17,1903 in Copiah county, Mississippi. They had 5 children.
2. Martha Elizabeth Wood was born May 26,1875 in Copiah county, Mississippi and died 1957 in Dallas, Texas.
3. Mary Koute Wood was born December 12, 1875 and died April 19,1969. She married Marshall Hayes.
4. Samuel Jesse Wood Jr. was born April 7,1878 and died August 4, 1878 in copiah county, Mississippi.
5. Joseph Ernest Wood was born December 21, 1881 and died January 3, 1905 in Waco, Texas.