Wood was the father of:
Zachary Taylor Wood, acting Commissioner of the North-West Mounted Police and Commissioner of Yukon Territory.
Charles Carroll Wood, Lieutenant with the British Army.
Sarah Knox "Knoxie" Taylor (1814–1835),[17] married Jefferson Davis in 1835, a subordinate officer she had met through her father at the end of the Black Hawk War; she died at 21 of malaria in St. Francisville, Louisiana, three months after her marriage.[19]
Octavia Pannell Taylor (1816–1820),[17] died in early childhood.[20]
Margaret Smith Taylor (1819–1820),[17] died in infancy along with Octavia when the Taylor family was stricken with a "bilious fever."[20]
Mary Elizabeth "Betty" Taylor (1824–1909),[17] married William Wallace Smith Bliss in 1848 (he died in 1853);[21] married Philip Pendleton Dandridge in 1858.[22]
Richard Taylor (1826–1879),[17] a Confederate Army general;[23] married Louise Marie Myrthe Bringier in 1851.[24]

Margaret Smith Taylor

Sarah [Knox] Taylor

Richard Taylor

Military career
Initial commissions
On May 3, 1808, Taylor joined the U.S. Army, receiving a commission from President Thomas Jefferson as a first lieutenant of the Kentuckian Seventh Infantry Regiment.