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• Albert and his wife Jessie Mae Williams adopted a 3-year-old boy in 1939.  His original name was Dan Terry.  His parents, who were both originally from Oklahoma,  were Rama Terry and Beatrice Addie Merryman,  They named their new son Dan Terry Wood.  In his brother Kenneth Paul Terry's obituary, his name was reported as Daniel.  Dan's daughter contacted me to give me his correct full name and his basic adoption information
  
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  You have my father listed as Daniel Wood which is incorrect, I'm not sure why Kenneth's obituary had him listed as such.   His correct full name is Dan Terry Wood and he was the last biological son of Beatrice and Rama Terry.
  
  Here is my father's information:
  
  Dan Terry Wood
  Born 6/13/35 Phoenix, AZ
  Died 7/3/1999 San Jose, CA
  Adoptive Parents - Albert S Wood and Jessie Williams Wood
  --  Stacy Wood, Geneanet Messaging to Orville Boyd Jenkins, 16 March 2017
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  A birth certificate matching these details of Dan Terry Wood, including his adoptive parents name is found in Arizona birth records.  This is a birth certificate of live birth for Dan Terry Wood, born in St Joseph Hospital in Phoenix, reporting Albert Sanders Wood and Jessie Mae Williams as his adoptive parents.  No mention is made of other parents.  One section reports he was adopted by these parents on 13 November 1939.  Line 27 states that this is a supplementary birth certificate issued in 1980.
  
  Arizona, Birth Records, 1880-1935
  Dan Terry Wood
  Birth 13 Jun 1935 St Joseph Hospital, Phoenix, Maricopa, Arizona, USA
  Father Albert Sanders Wood, b 24 Dec 1882 Kentucky
  Mother Jessie Mae Williams, b 14 Dec 1983 [sic, 1883] Ohio
  Informant Jessie Williams Wood, Mother
  Attendant Floyd B Sharp MD
  Registered 22 June 1935
  Type of Action Adoption, ordered 13 November 1939
  Superior Court of Maricopa County, Arizona
  Supplementary Birth Certificate issued 6 March 1980
  
  Albert and Jessie were enumerated in the 1940 census with Dan as their 4-year--old son.  Jessie's mother was also in their household.  The ages reported in the census are 10 years younger than their birth dates on Dan's birth certificate would make them.  The birth certificate is a typed copy of the original, so handwriting is not available for double-checking.  The census age may have been reported or recorded incorrectly, or the birth dates on the birth certificate may have been mistranscribed when typed on the supplementary form in 1980.
  
  1940 Federal Census, Maricopa County, Arizona, 12 April, CSD2 Township, District 7-130, page 6B, Hse #141, Owns, $3000
  Wood, Albert S Head M W 48 Married Grade C3 b Kentucky Rural Arizona in 1935 Federal Post Office Clerk [b abt 1892]
  Wood, Jessie M Wife F W 47 Married Grade H4 b Ohio Rural Arizona in 1935 [b abt 1893]
  - page 7A -
  Wood, Dan Son F W 4 Single Grade 0 b Arizona [b abt 1936]
  Williams, Mary A Mother-in-law F W 86 Widow Grade 8 b Ohio Rural Arizona in 1935 [b abt 1854]

Sources

• 1. Arizona, Birth Records, 1880-1935
• 2. 1940 Federal Census, Maricopa County, Arizona
  • 12 April, CSD2 Township, District 7-130, page 6B, Hse #141, Owns, $3000
• 3. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
• 4. Geneanet Messaging
• 5. Memorial Networks
• 6. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
• 7. Obituary Daily Times Index, 1995-Current
• 8. U.S. Public Records Index, 1950-1993, Volume 1
• 9. U.S., School Yearbooks, 1880-2012
  • Date: 2010;