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The estate passed through several generations of the Wood family, until Mrs. Wood’s grandson, J. Walton Wood, inherited it. He lived there with his wife, Susie, and remodeled and added onto the home in 1916.
According to the Johnsons’ book, during the remodeling a neighbor urged Miss Susie not to remove the ink spot left by Gen. Sigel. She replied, according to the story, “in nc uncertain terms, that she had no desire to have a Yankee general’s ink on her floor and she had a new floor laid over it.”
From the Wood family, Oak Hill passed to the Johnson family with the marriage of Susie Wood to Dr. C.E. Johnson. His son, C.E. Johnson Jr., Elisabeth Johnson’s late husband, inherited the property from his father.
Though they owned the house and a large piece of property around it, Mrs. Johnson said, they never lived there. They had their own home nearby, and the big house “was just too much. ”
After owning it for several years,
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