WOODY FAMILY:
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This look-up is a work of love. The Woody's have lived in the Vancleve Area of Maries County for 150 years. At first there were only birds to send beautiful melodies through those hills. Then the Woodys, Heltons and the Jones married into each other and that all changed. If you doubt what I say, come to the Campground Church Homecoming, the second Sunday of September every year. They have been singing up at the Ricker Chapel for their Homecoming, the last couple of years. Ricker's Chapel is at the top of the hill in downtown Vancleve, right up from where the store used to be. If you would roll a ball down the hill, and it did'nt hit a tree or Mildred Ricker on her 4-wheel motor-cycle, it would run in the door of Campground Church. Mildred was born in 1911 and I've always worried that she was going to run off and join the "Hells Angels" but so far she never has. I guess fishing with her grand-kids, hunting mushrooms, picking up walnuts, playing piano at the church, writing a column for newspaper and looking in on the Old Folks, keeps her pretty busy. She's related to the Woodys thru her husband. Jennings Woody who is 96 and I won't dare arm wrestle with him, owned an old steam-operated threshing machine. It was the only one in that part of the county. You had to book yourself for a certain week, to get your wheat threshed. My dad has worked on that old threshing machine at about every farm around there. When it was your week, everybody came to you farm and helped you and when it was their time, you went over there. The night before, you would set up saw-horses with boards across them, to make tables. The women would come and bring food the next morning while the men worked in the fields. What a meal that was!! Most of the Woodys settled in Maries County, but around 1900 some of them spilled over in Miller County. One of them, Davis Woody married Dad's sister Josephine Whitaker. There are several Davis Woodys. I'll start with one in Maries County. MARIES COUNTY: 1880 census: Maries Co. (Boone Twp) Davis Woody age 34, born (Mo) but both parents from Virginia. Sallie age 30, born (Mo) but both parents from Virginia. Mary age 12 (Mo) Parthana age 10 Charles age 8 Polonia age 6 Camillus age 4 William age 1 William T. Kimsey age 21 (cousin) 1880 census: Andrew K. Woody age 39 born (Mo) parents born (Va) Louisa A. age 39 (Mo) parents (Ky) Davis S. age 10 (Mo) ( This was my uncle, moved to Miller County) Robert F. age 8 Judith L. age 5 Parthana E. age 3 months Robert F. Woody to Clarissa A. Hale, 5/18/1893. 1880 census: Daniel B. Woody age 28 (Mo), father (Va), mother (Tn) Martha J. age 25 (Ohio) parents (Ohio) Marion F. age 5 Simeon G. age 2 1800 census: John H. Woody age 50 (Va), both parents (Va) Iranah Woody (Burd) age 47 (Tn) both parents (Tn) Fanny age 17 (Mo) John J. age 15 Fanny Woody married John R. Pendleton, 3/9/1882. 1910 census: (something has happened to Daniel B. Woody) Martha Woody age 55 Elzie age 5 (g-son) 1900 census: John H. Woody age 70 Irenah age 67 1900 census: Frank B. Woody age 48 (Mo) Martha age 46 (Mo) Bertha age 11 1900 census: Marion Woody age 23 Ollie age 22 1910 census: Marion age 35 Ollie age 31 Rainey age 9 Jennie age 8 Elzie age 6 Everett age 4 1900 census: Simon Woody age 23 Mary age 21 1900 census: John J. Woody age 35 Martha S. Woody (Barnhart) age 34 Daniel age 15 Fredrick age 14 Ethel age 11 Frances age 9 John age 5 Irena age 2 1910 census: John J. age 45 Martha S. age 43 John age 15 Irena age 10 James D. age 4 1920 census: John J. age 55 Sarilda age 53 Irena age 19 Jimmie age 15 John J. Woody married Martha Sarilda Barnhart10/25/1883. 1910 census: Archie Woody age 25 Louisa Woody (Helton) age 24 Elmer age 6 William age3 Oma age 4 months 1910 census: Fredrick Woody age 24 Luana Woody (Wilson) age 22 Bernard age 8 months 1920 census: Fredrick age 33 Luana age 30 Virgil age 10 Oscar age 5 Parthenia Woody age to William Meredith 8/20/1871. Elizabeth Woody to William Barnhart, 5/17/1874. Polly Ann Woody to J. H. Wiles, 8.11/1878. Margaret J. Woody to James Pendleton, 1/16/1879. Allen Woody married Tempry E. Majors, 6/1/1884. Allen Woody married Sarah F. Majors, 3/15/1888. MILLER COUNTY: M. E. Woody to Wesley Hogue, 12/24/1882. (Pulaski County) Alfred S. Woody to Minnie Welsh, 5/2/1897. 1900 census: Alfred S. Woody age 25 Minnie age 20 Carl B. age 1 Edward S. Woody to Minnie Dorl, 11/25/1896. Nora Woody married Guy Livingston, 12/6/1919. Lottie Woody married Colmer Hensley, 3/25/1920. 1900 census: (Richwood Twp) Robert Woody age 28 (from over in Maries Co.) Clarissa Woody (Hale) age 28 Ida E. age 6 Nora M. age 4 Lottie L. age (baby) 1900 census: (Robert's parents) Andrew Woody age 59 Louisa age 59 Emma age 20 Laura J. age 17 1900 census: (Richwood Twp) David Woody age 31 (My uncle) Josie Woody (Whitaker)age 28 Alma age 5 Foulsey age 3 Boy age (baby) Uncle Dave and Aunt Josie had other children as follows: Bertha ( died a baby) Alma (married Ray Humphrey) Fannie (married John R. Pendleton) Clyde (His wifes name was Ida) Nancy (died a baby) Mary L. (married Thomas Butler) Leonard (married Livingston) David Sherman (his wife's name was Helen Marie) Virgie ( the sweetest little thing, she was only about 4 ft. tall) William (married Rosa Pendleton) Winford (died a baby) L. (Leonard?)O. to Hazel Livingston, 11/6/1923. Cornelius Woody age 64 Eliza L. age 61 Frank M. age 16 DeVere |