Lucy Hosmer Wood
Lucy Hosmer Wood was the great great great great grandmother of Marian Wilder DeJonge and Agnes Wilder McMurdo. She was born in Concord, Massachusetts to a founding family of the town. Her brothers, parents and extended family were heavily involved in the resistance to the British government. Lucy and her husband, Oliver Wood, moved to Norridgewock, Maine, in 1774. It's possilble that they returned to Concord for a short period of time after the Battle of Concord, but were back in Norridgewock by about 1777, where Lucy remained until her death in 1786.
This link is to a synopsis of the life of Lucy Hosmer Wood, the great great great grandmother of James Lewellyn Wilder.
A Synopsis of the Life of Lucy Hosmer Wood
The link below provides information about Lucy Hosmer Wood, as well as her brothers Joseph Hosmer and Benjamin Hosmer, and their sister, Dinah Hosmer.
The graves of two of Lucy Hosmer Wood's young daughters, one aged two and one fifteen days, from 1758 and 1766. The graves are located at Old South Burying Place, Concord, Massachusetts. These children were the younger sisters of our ancestor, Silas Wood.
The graves of Rebeckah and Anna Wood, young daughters of Lucy and Oliver Wood
Thid link is to a synopsis of the life of Thomas Hosmer Jr., the father of Lucy Hosmer Wood and the great great great great grandfather of
James Lewellyn Wilder.