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Note: Fred, began Wood Lumber Company in 1935, with $300.00 that he borrowed from his aunt Allice. The Mill was located in White Oak Bottom. He cut cross ties and some lumber. The mill was moved from place to place, wherever he could find timber to cut, until 1941. He then built a mill near his home and it has remained there until today, 1995. When he died in 1970 the mill closed for four years. Then in 1975 a new and modern mill was built on the sight of the old, by his son Jesse and grandson Danny. This mill was closed in July, 1985, all but the plainer operation, which is still in operation. Fred liked to go diamond hunting at Murfreesboro, Arkansas, where he found an eight carrot diamond. He was invited to go to New York and be on the T. V. show, I've Got a Secret but refused to go because of the plane trip. He was one who liked to sleep in his own bed every night. In his younger days he liked to fish, hunt and trap. He would go to Little Missouri River and set trot lines and run them all knight. When he first married, during the Great Depression of the thirties, about all the income he had was from trapping. He died suddenly of a heart attack Sunday night November 8, 1970. He is buried in Red Hill Cemetery along with the rest of the Wood family of Ouachita County, Arkansas.
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