Sterling Alexander Martin Wood
Born: March 17, 1823
Birth Place: Florence, Alabama
Father: Alexander Hamilton Wood 1796 – 1860
(Buried: Florence Cemetery, Florence, Alabama)
Mother: Mary Evans 1796 – 1871
(Buried: Florence Cemetery, Florence, Alabama)
Wife: Lelia Elizabeth Leftwich 1825 – 1891
(Buried: Evergreen Cemetery, Tuscaloosa, Alabama)
Children:
Judge William John Wood 1850 – 1917
(Buried: Florence Cemetery, Florence, Alabama)
Lilly E. Wood Harris 1853 – 1940
(Buried: Evergreen Cemetery, Tuscaloosa, Alabama)
Beulah Euphrasyne Wood 1855 – 1939
(Buried: Evergreen Cemetery, Tuscaloosa, Alabama)
Sister Margaret Mary Wood 1856 – 1936
(Buried: Saint Cecilia Convent Cemetery, Nashville, Tennessee)
Bernard A. Wood Sr. 1867 – 1937
(Buried: Evergreen Cemetery, Tuscaloosa, Alabama)
Education:
Attended St. Joseph College in Kentucky
Occupation before War:
Attorney in Tennessee and Alabama
Alabama State Representative
1851 – 1857: Solicitor for Fourth Judicial Court of Alabama
Editor of Gazette Newspaper
1860: Supporter of John C. Breckinridge for President
Civil War Career:
1861 – 1862: Colonel of 7th Alabama Infantry Regiment
1862 – 1863: Brigadier General of Confederate Infantry
1862: Wounded during the Battle of Shiloh
1862 – 1863: Participated in the Battle of Stone's River
1863: Participated in the Battle of Chickamuga
1863: Resigned from the Confederate Army – (October 17th)
Occupation after War:
1863 – 1865: Attorney in Alabama
1865: Pardoned by the United States Government
Alabama State Representative
1877 – 1891: Attorney for Alabama Great Southern Railroad
1889 – 1890: Law Professor of University of Alabama
Died: January 26, 1891
Place of Death: Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Age at time of Death: 67 years old
Cause of Death: Not Known
Burial Place: Evergreen Cemetery, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
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