The age-herald., 1901-09-24
A Noble AIahamian.

Even in Dallas County, so famed for It's gifted and gracious men, there was none more gracious, few so gifted, as Judge P. G. Wood whose death in Lon don has startled the State" said for mer Dallas man yesterday.
 "When first knew Judge Wood he was about fifty, but grey and benign and benevolent, a man of as beautiful and gentle courtesy as any man ever knew. and being very young myself. he appealed irresistiby to my strongest sense of respect, even to my reverence. He impressed me then as being man nobly and brave1y good, and that i'm pression has abided with me.
 "Judge Wood was a Christian in the higher, broader. truer sense. a son of sweet charity always eager to do good in the world. It Is especially sad that he who travelled so little should at last come to die four thousand miles from his home.
 "Rev. pr. Andrew J. Lamar of the Court Street Methodist church, Mont gomery, who was with Judge Wood when death came, was formerly Judge Woods pastor in Selma"
 Pleasant Green Wood was born near Centrevine, Blob County, Alabama. on January S1, 1892. When about years of age he moved with his mother to Caha- ba, the old capital of Alabama, where he received such an education as the com mon schools of the day furnished. Dur ing his leisure hours, while attending school, he devoted himself to telegraphy, and after having become proficient he was given charge of the office in Cahaba. He remained in this position about two years and was then given a lease" oil the Dallas Gazette, a newspaper then published in Cahaba.
 In 1852 he began the study of law In the office of Dawson & Pegues, and was admitted to the bar two years later. He devoted himself to the practice of law until the commencement of the war be- tween the states, when he enlisted in the Twenty-eighth Alabama Infantry and was made first lieutenant of Company l. He served during the entire conflict with his regiment and was promoted from time to time until, at the close of hostil- ities, he held the rank of lieutenant col onel Three of the promotions were for bravery on the field of battle. When peace was declared Judge Wood returned to his home and resumed the | practice of law. In 1866 he was elected | judge of the Selma city court, but resign ed immediately after the passage of the reconstruction act of Congress The court house had been removed from Cahaba and Judge Wood, after retiring from the bench, took up the practice of law again. | In 1877 he was appointed by Governor | George s. Houston to be probate judge of Dallas County. In 1880 he was chosen | to succeed himself and likewise in 1886 | 1892 and 1898. His term of office would have expired in 1904.
 Judge Wood was a member of the Methodist church and was a lifelong Christian worker. He loved his church and gave of his time and means liberal | ly. He was a member of the board of | trustees of the Southern University, at | Greensboro, and of the Methodist Or. phans' Home at Summerfield
 l He seldom left the county, believing | that the people who had honored him Sd often expected him to remain at his post
 and 1t was only after hard persuasion of
 friends and family that he consented to
 accept the appointment of the bishop to
 attend the ecumenical conference in L.on- 1 dOn