Dorothy Lee Kelly MacDowell Wood (1917-2013) was born on November 8, 1917, to Gladys Lee and Harrison Barron Kelly in Monticello, Georgia. She received a BA in English from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1939. In the same year, she married McNeely DuBose MacDowell (1914-1976). She married Henry Charles Wood in 1979. Wood was an avid writer, writing for various newspapers and magazines, and her play, “Drums Along the Savannah,” was produced during the Tercentennial of South Carolina’s statehood. Wood published twenty genealogical books, including “Commodore Vanderbilt and His Family: A Biographical Account of the Descendants of Cornelius and Sophia Johnson Vanderbilt” (1989). She died in Hendersonville, North Carolina, on October 9, 2013.