Pleasant View Cemetery: Residents of Lot 85, Plot 5

Residents of Lot 85, Plot 5

Aubrey A. Wood

Birth: 1881; Death: Aug 1954; Burial: 28 Aug 1954; Nativity: UNK

Location: Lot 85, Plot 5 (block F)

Ledger Notes:

Ledger Notes: Age: 73 Yrs. Funeral: Holman, Hankins & Palance

General Notes:

Notes: Son of John & Jane Wood. Husband of Inza R. Wood. He inherited the family farm on Corral Creek on Graham's Ferry Road. Husband of Inza Wood. Their house still stands, replacing his parents' home which was flooded to the second story in Big Flood of 1898 (?) and later burned. Inza was a teacher at Corral Creek School in 1930's, later teaching at Wilsonville School.

Corral Creek School was a 1-room schoolhouse located just north of the intersection of Graham's Ferry & Wilsonville Road. There was a hand-dug well, but the children carried drinking water from a spring on the Wood farm (the spring still exists). Aubrey raised hops during the 1930's (hop house was razed in 1980's) and planted one of the early filbert orchards in the Valley, which still stands. Their barn collapsed in the Columbus Day Storm in 1962. Their farm was the site of an early oil exploration drilling which resulted in discovery of only an artesian water well, which still exists, though the artesian reservoir has been nearly depleted. No oil was found & the local farmer investors lost their investments.

Contributed by Stephen Baker can be reached at 310-490-8510 or email sgb90210 at aol.com.

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