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A. B. Wood is one of Ashley County’s (Ark.), most progressive farmers, and he has become well known as an energetic, enterprising and public-spirited gentleman. His birth occurred in Alabama in 1838, and he made his home in his native State until 1857, when he came to Fountain Hill, Ark., with his father, W. W. Wood, who was a farmer and merchant. Although A. B. Wood did not receive many early advantages, he was naturally intelligent and wide-awake, and began life on his own hook at the age of twenty-one years as a merchant at Hamburg, continuing this occupation until the opening of the Rebellion, enlisting in 1862, in Company K, Third Arkansas Infantry, being in Longstreet’s corps, as the leader of a brass band. He was in the engagement at Sharpsburg, and there detailed to wait on the wounded, and became a prisoner, Norfolk and the seven days’ fight around Richmond, and was afterward at Gettysburg, being afterward exchanged. He rejoined his command and was at Goldsboro and Fredericksburg. Upon his return home he resumed merchandising at Fountain Hill, and later began purchasing land, and is now the owner of 320 acres, 280 of which are hill and the rest bottom land, forty acres being under cultivation. His crops are always fair, and he is doing well. He is the assistant postmaster of Fountain Hill, is a Democrat politically, and he and his wife, whom he married in 1866, are members of the Missionary Baptist Church. Her maiden name was Sallie L. Robinson, and she is a daughter of Thomas B. and Sarah Robinson, both of whom are deceased, the latter passing from life in 1875. Mr. and Mrs. Wood are the parents of the following children: Walter M. (who is in the jewelry business in Haynesville, La.), Susan T. (deceased), William A., Effie M., James B., Jesse, Asley B., Lillie and Lena.