WOOD, SUSAN, née Lapham (?-1880), was a daughter of Samuel Lapham, of Tasmania, and in 1854 married John Nugent Wood, later resident magistrate of Southland. She lived for some time at Bendigo; came to New Zealand in 1861, and lived at Gabriel's Gully and later at Arrowtown and Wendonside, Southland. She contributed to the Otago Witness and the Saturday Advertiser lyrics, tales and essays many of which were collected in Bush Flowers from Australia and Waiting for the Mail. She died on 30 Nov 1880.

Cycl. N.Z., iv; Wood, op. cit.; Saturday Advertiser, 11 Dec 1880.

Reference: Volume 2, page 268

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