When William Clarence WOOD was born on May 20, 1862, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, his father, William Henry Wood, was 29 and his mother, Mary Jane Green, was 19. He married Nettie Cleone GILLET on December 29, 1885, in Ravenna, Michigan. He died on November 4, 1930, in Cadillac, Michigan, at the age of 68, and was buried at Soper Cemetery in Colfax, Wexford, Michigan.

Nettie Cleone GILLET was born on November 27, 1865, in Ottawa, Michigan. Her father, George Washington Gillet, was 44, and her mother, Easter E. Smith, was 34. She died on March 23, 1933, in Alpine, Michigan, at the age of 67, and was buried at Fairview Cemetery in Manton, Wexford, Michigan.

They had nine children together during their marriage - Myrtle Mable, Harry Fay, George Seldon, Charles Floyd, Avery Glen, Hazel Emma, Edna May, Ethelyn Elnora (1905-1905) and Ray Laverne.