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The Woods Cemetery is located on the Barker property along North Lassiter Barker Road in Readyville, Tennessee.
It is easy to find but extremely overgrown and hard to navigate.
CCCP: 2012
Cemetery Book: 1997
GPS: 35* 49.134 North -86* 10.545 West
The Woods Cemetery is located on the Barker property along North Lassiter Barker Road in Readyville, Tennessee.
It is easy to find but extremely overgrown and hard to navigate.
CCCP: 2012
Cemetery Book: 1997
GPS: 35* 49.134 North -86* 10.545 West
Major John Howard Wood was born in Iredall County, NC, March 16, 1803 and died in Readyville (now Rutherford County) TN November 3, 1879. His father, John Bolton Wood III, came to TN about 1808 and settled in fht valley below Woodbury, TN. He owned 5,000 acres of land. He had ten children and gave each one a farm when they married. Jjohn Howard Wood married Roxanna Pierce Sutton in 1827 and received his land near Readyville where he built a log cabin near a spring. In 1845 Major John H. Wood built a typical southern mansion on top of a hill, one mile south of Readyville and named it Hillcrest. The house has a view for miles into the valley. It was a two story with an upper and lower portico extending the length of the fron and supported by six white columns. Two tall lchimneys on each end are made of dressed limestone. The kitchen was on the east side of the basement. The large stone fireplace where the cooking was done was indeed a work of art. The cranes, hoods, copper kettles and candle molds gave evidence that this was the most important room in the house for it provided food for the family and slaves. This fireplace was kept in constant use, and the fire never went out. It took four years to build the house, considered to be one of the finest in the Readyville area. Major Wood was one of the most influential citizens of Rutherford County. He and his wife had ten children, three of which died in one year; two were killed in the Civil War. Major Wood died at his home and is buried in the family graveyard. In 1999, Hillcrest was owned by Mr. and Mrs. Ray Barker (Mr. Barker was born in the house as his parents owned it at his birth) and has been renovated.