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By CHARLES WOOD
Rappahannock Newt Contributing Writer
An event of significant interest to many persons in Rappahannock County was a memorial reunion of descendants of Charles Dudley Wood (b. 1881 d. 1926) and his wife Lucy Henry Wood (b. 1878 d. 1958). The reunion took place at the home of Mrs. Amenta Wood Buckner of Midlothian, Va. (formerly of Flint Hill) on June 19, 1994. The Wood family made their home in Flint Hill on Rt. 522 north. The family patriarch, Charles Dudley Wood, was a third generation commercial apple grower in the county. His death in 1926 left his widow, Lucy Henry Wood, to rear their four children alone. She maintained the farm and orchard throughout the children’s growing up years and saw them through college — the three sons, Brae, John and Charles through Virginia Polytechnic Institute and daughter, Nellie, through Virginia Intermont College at Bristol. Because of her gentleness, patience and love for her family, it wa she who was remembered and memoralized by the reunion.
While Brue and John completed college, Charles stayed home and -helped run the farm. Brue then came back to the county and ran the farm while Charles began college. Brue met and married a brown-eyed beauty from Front Royal, Va., Miss Lucy Dunn; and he brought her hfime to Sunny Slope to live. John, having been an ROTC cadet at V.P.I. elected to remain in the U.S. Army. He met and married Miss Mary Evans Robeson, daughter of a Y.P.I. professor. Mary went with John on his assignment to the Philippines shortly before the outbreack ofW.W. II. . Brue and Lucy had two children, Charles Dudley Wood and Frances Ruffher Wood, as the family continued to live at Sunny Slope in Flint Hill with Brae’s widowed mother. Meanwhile John and Mary remained
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