Evelina Wood

Evelina Wood

Evelina Wood Abercrombie, 1855-1918

• Father: William Barnes Wood b. 6 Nov 1830, d. 14 Nov 1908
• Mother: Cornelia Josephine Mitchell b. Dec 1835, d. 28 Sep 1930

• Evelina Wood was born on 23 October 1855 in Texas.
• She was the daughter of William Barnes Wood and Cornelia Josephine Mitchell.
• She was known as Lina.
• She and Robert Micajah Powell and William Wood Powell were enumerated in the census of 1 June 1860 in the household of William Barnes Wood and Cornelia Josephine Mitchell in Montgomery County, Texas; Robert M. Powell was the widower of William Barnes' sister Elizabeth Green Wood.
• On Wednesday, 27 June 1860, Green Wood recorded: "Mrs. Wood, Mr. Powell, Ella and Wood Powell and Wm B. W. and wife and daughter all left for Sour Lake." And on Monday, 1 July, "Bob returned from Sour Lake with the Waggon and six mules, left all well." On Monday, 9 July, "Started Bob with waggon and six mules to Sour Lake to bring the Bagage." And on Sunday, 15 July, "Mrs. Wood, Mr. Powell and the rest returned from Sour Lake. Mr. A. W. Speight and Lady came also.
• She and Evelina Alexander Barnes, Campbell Wood, Ella Abercrombie Wood, Eliza Stocks Wood, Elizabeth Ames Wood and Powell Wood were enumerated in the census of 1 June 1870 in the household of William Barnes Wood and Cornelia Josephine Mitchell in Danville, Montgomery County, Texas.
• She married James Buford Abercrombie, son of Milo Bolling Abercrombie and Sarah Lee Haden, on 27 November 1879, with J. Ward, Rector of Grace Church, Galveston, officiating. (It is not clear whether the marriage took place in Walker County or Galveston, or elsewhere.) They were second cousins once removed..
• Evelina Wood and James Buford Abercrombie appeared in the census of 1 June 1880 in Walker County, Texas, and one domestic servant.
• During the early 1880s, James and Lina Abercrombie were operating a boarding house in Huntsville.
• Evelina Wood wrote (from Willis) to her grandson Wood Powell ". . . I came to town last Sunday Billie, Josie and Lina’s two oldest children with us. . . . Lina has been quite sick recently – was not well when I left – I passed last Friday with her. she has a beautiful place a nice but very small house. She keeps a cook & grown nurse. Her time is taken up with out doors work. She says she is determined to raise her meat this year & sell butter enough to pay for her sewing. She can’t bear house work. She is now raising bronze turkies. they are very much larger than the other kind. has sent on for Pekin ducks. Jim A. has been in the Alliance store in Willis the last 7 weeks. He gives the farm no attention whatever, goes home Saturday nights & returns Mondays. Josie keeps Josie Lee altogether and she is a deal of trouble. her dear patient grand ma says she can not do without her. Billie has so little to do at home for the want of rain. He comes to Willis about three or four times per week. A great deal lovely weather & east wind but no rain. ground too hard to finish planting cotton, garden almost at a stand still – Billie sets out cabbage plants by watering the ground so as to pull them up & water the ground to set them out. His corn looks green & pretty but almost quit growing. . . ." Evelina Wood wrote (from Willis) to her grandson Wood Powell ". . . I came to town last Sunday Billie, Josie and Lina’s two oldest children with us. . . . Lina has been quite sick recently – was not well when I left – I passed last Friday with her. she has a beautiful place a nice but very small house. She keeps a cook & grown nurse. Her time is taken up with out doors work. She says she is determined to raise her meat this year & sell butter enough to pay for her sewing. She can’t bear house work. She is now raising bronze turkies. they are very much larger than the other kind. has sent on for Pekin ducks. Jim A. has been in the Alliance store in Willis the last 7 weeks. He gives the farm no attention whatever, goes home Saturday nights & returns Mondays. Josie keeps Josie Lee altogether and she is a deal of trouble. her dear patient grand ma says she can not do without her. Billie has so little to do at home for the want of rain. He comes to Willis about three or four times per week. A great deal lovely weather & east wind but no rain. ground too hard to finish planting cotton, garden almost at a stand still – Billie sets out cabbage plants by watering the ground so as to pull them up & water the ground to set them out. His corn looks green Evelina Wood wrote (from Willis) to her grandson Wood Powell ". . . I came to town last Sunday Billie, Josie and Lina’s two oldest children with us. . . . Lina has been quite sick recently – was not well when I left – I passed last Friday with her. she has a beautiful place a nice but very small house. She keeps a cook & grown nurse. Her time is taken up with out doors work. She says she is determined to raise her meat this year & sell butter enough to pay for her sewing. She can’t bear house work. She is now raising bronze turkies. they are very much larger than the other kind. has sent on for Pekin ducks. Jim A. has been in the Alliance store in Willis the last 7 weeks. He gives the farm no attention whatever, goes home Saturday nights & returns Mondays. Josie keeps Josie Lee altogether and she is a deal of trouble. her dear patient grand ma says she can not do without her. Billie has so little to do at home for the want of rain. He comes to Willis about three or four times per week. A great deal lovely weather & east wind but no rain. ground too hard to finish planting cotton, garden almost at a stand still – Billie sets out cabbage plants by watering the ground so as to pull them up & water the ground to set them out. His corn looks green & pretty but almost quit growing. . . ." Evelina Wood wrote (from Willis) to her grandson Wood Powell ". . . I came to town last Sunday Billie, Josie and Lina’s two oldest children with us. . . . Lina has been quite sick recently – was not well when I left – I passed last Friday with her. she has a beautiful place a nice but very small house. She keeps a cook & grown nurse. Her time is taken up with out doors work. She says she is determined to raise her meat this year & sell butter enough to pay for her sewing. She can’t bear house work. She is now raising bronze turkies. they are very much larger than the other kind. has sent on for Pekin ducks. Jim A. has been in the Alliance store in Willis the last 7 weeks. He gives the farm no attention whatever, goes home Saturday nights & returns Mondays. Josie keeps Josie Lee altogether and she is a deal of trouble. her dear patient grand ma says she can not do without her. Billie has so little to do at home for the want of rain. He comes to Willis about three or four times per week. A great deal lovely weather & east wind but no rain. ground too hard to finish planting cotton, garden almost at a stand still – Billie sets out cabbage plants by watering the ground so as to pull them up & water the gr[Letter in possession of B. M. Henwood, descendant of Wm Wood Powell, transcription copyright 2007 R. E. Reichardt.] on 12 April 1887.
• Evelina Wood and James Buford Abercrombie appeared in the census of 1 June 1900 in Huntsville, Walker County, Texas, and Josie Mitchell Wood was also enumerated with her husband in Montgomery County.. Other members of the household included William Adair Abercrombie, Ella A. Abercrombie, Bolling Anderson Abercrombie, James Smither Abercrombie, Anna M. Abercrombie, Robert Hayden Abercrombie, Lavinia E. Abercrombie, John Leonard Abercrombie, Charles Milo Abercrombie and Cornelia Josephine Mitchell.
• Evelina Wood and James Buford Abercrombie appeared in the census of 15 April 1910 in Harris County, Texas. Other members of the household included James Smither Abercrombie, Anna M. Abercrombie, Robert Hayden Abercrombie, Lavinia E. Abercrombie, John Leonard Abercrombie, Charles Milo Abercrombie, Joseph Rice Abercrombie and Bolling Anderson Abercrombie.
• Evelina Wood became a widow at the 6 March 1912 death of her husband James Buford Abercrombie.
• Evelina Wood died on 10 January 1918 at age 62 in Harris County, Texas.
• She was buried at Oakwood Cemetery in Huntsville, Walker County, Texas.

• Last Edited: 9 Jul 2009