I
think it is important to know our family history. Over the years we have
compiled a lot of information about our ancestors, much of it due to the efforts of my sister Monnie Bess Woods Jones. In this paper I will try to tie all of these pieces of information together
in a meaningful fashion. John Tom Woods
Since
Woods is my family name I will begin with my Woods ancestors. I will relate
some of the process of finding our roots.
September 7, 1995 A few months ago our cousin Joyce Brooks Wedgeworth gave to my sister
Patsy Ruth Woods Byerly a copy of a letter that was found in her Grandfather’s Bible.
It was a letter from F.M. Woods, dated July 1, 1904 at North Birmingham,
Alabama to his nephew Tom Woods at Sugar Hill, Texas. (I was born
in the house that at one time was the Sugar Hill Post Office. It was the home
of a Dr. Williams and also the post office before Mama and Daddy bought the place (for $16.50 per acre for 107.5 acres, which
was a fortune in those days).) F.M. Woods was the brother of my Great-grandpa
Joseph Woods. The Tom (Thomas Seth) Woods that he wrote to was the brother of
my Grandpa, James Alonzo Woods and thus my Great-uncle. The Jim that he mentions
in the letter was my Grandpa. F.M. Woods was my Great-great-uncle.
Our
cousin, James Roy Woods who lives at Beckville (The grandson of my Daddy's brother Joseph Hardy) recently went to Alabama in search of our ancestors. He found out quite a lot, which I will summarize
below. F. (Francis) M. (Marion) Woods and his wife Sophronia (Galloway) had six
children; Florence A. (Annie), b. Oct. 5, 1870; William Corine (Willie), b. 1873;
Alice Theo, b. April
25, 1875; Mary Elizabeth (Mamie), b. 1878; Clementine
(Tina), b. 1881; and his only son, Thomas Dargan, b. 1888. When F.M. wrote the
letter in 1904, the three youngest children were still at home; he mentions them in the letter. Tom would have been about 16 then.
At
the time of the 1910 census, Tom was 22 and shown by occupation to be a stenographer for a lumber company. Ten years later he was listed as being a bookkeeper for a lumber company, was married to Laura Lyman and
had a son Tom Jr. age 1 year and 4 months. James has tried to find
Tom Jr., but so far no luck. Hecould very well still be living, and would be
about 77 now.
I
told my sister Bess that Tom would have been at a prime age for service during WW II.
He could have been killed or maybe settled some place else after the war as so many veterans did. He could be any place. My sister Bess thinks she has found
our Grandpa's daddy, Joseph Woods in the Alabama census records. There is no actual proof that he is "our" Joseph though. She was looking for the Arnolds (Grandpa's mother
was Mary Ann Arnold) and found them living in Talladega County Alabama in 1850, but Mary Ann (my
Great-grandmother) was not living with them. Instead Bess found her living with
an elderly couple named Wilson in Lauderdale County. Of course there is no way of knowing why she was there. The interesting thing is that
a few houses away from the Wilson’s there was a Woods family consisting of James T. Woods, his wife Eliza
and a 3-yr. old son Moses. Also in the home was a brother to James T. named Joseph
and a sister named Sarah. Mary Ann and this Joseph Woods lived near to one another
and are almost sure to have been acquainted. To have her marry a Joseph Woods
different than this one is highly improbable I would think, but we may never know. I
am satisfied that this is our Joseph. We
have since learned that this Joseph Woods was not “our” Joseph.
In 1850, Francis Marion Woods would have been only 4 years old. I suspect he was still with his parents, in some records listed as Thomas Dargin (should be Dargan) and Cynthia E. Woods. In the 1870 census, F.M.
and Sophronia, married on Dec.7, 1869 had two people living in the house with them.
Both had the last name Woods. One was Cynthia, age 52 and the other whose
name is hard to read, but appears to be Martha, age 20. These must be the mother
and sister of F.M. Woods.
According
to records, copies of which I got from my cousin James Woods, F.M. Woods entered the Confederate Army as a Private in Company
C. 10th Regiment, Alabama Volunteers on March 10, 1862, at Montevallo
Alabama. He was in the service until April 9, 1865. F.M. Woods was with the Confederate Army in Appomatox, Virginia on the
very day that General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Confederate Army to General Ulysses Grant.
General Grant paroled all of the Confederate soldiers. They had to lay
down their arms (except officers were allowed to keep side arms). I wonder if Francis Marion saw Generals Lee and Grant at the Appomatox Courthouse. Probably not! The men were given a days rations, allowed to
keep their horses and leave for their homes. Francis Marion Woods was several
hundred miles from Birmingham, Alabama.
Armies
were assembled of companies and regiments of relatives, friends, neighbors and acquaintances.
I expect the men traveled in groups, much as they did before the war ended. They undoubtedly foraged for food and camped
out along the way home. They were traveling through friendly territory and were
probably helped out by the people along the way. I wonder how long it took them
to get home? Francis Marion Woods was likely named after General Francis Marion
"The Swamp Fox" who commanded the Continental Army Militia in South Carolina during the War for
Independence.
It
is possible that one or maybe even both of Francis Marion’s Grandfathers served as Continental soldiers under General
Marion. We have learned that his great
grandfather Frame Woods served briefly in the Continental Army. As for his mother’s
family we know nothing - not even her maiden name.
We
know that my Great-great-grandfather Benjamin F. Goodson (Bessie Edna Brown--Catherine Naomi Dove--Casandre Goodson--Benjamin
Franklin Goodson) was one of Marion's soldiers. It is very possible
that our forebears on both sides; my mother's and my father's, were there together fighting the British with General Marion. They could have been friends (even relatives)
and shared their meals around the campfires on Snow Island there
in the Pee Dee River in the swamps of South Carolina.
A
note here about the census records. I have copies of the 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910
and 1920 census for Chilton County Alabama where these relatives were living at that time.
I got the records from Cousin James Woods. There are many discrepancies
in the records; such as names and ages. F.M. Woods, was a Baptist Minister. He was the pastor of a number of different churches and some of them more than once. Records show that he was married to Sophronia Galloway in 1869. He died in 1913 and she in 1926, only four years before I was born.
In the census of 1870 and 1880 his wife is listed as Sophronia, in 1900 his wife is listed as Sara, and he is listed
as F.E. Woods. In 1910 his wife is listed as Matilda. At first I thought we had the wrong family, but there in the home was Mamie, Tina and Thomas D., the same
children F.M mentioned in his letter to my great uncle Tom. It is a certainty
that F.M. Woods never had but one wife. As a Baptist Minister he would not have
divorced - not in those days. We know from the records that Sophronia out-lived
him, so he was not a widower.
The
way the census worked then: An enumerator went around from house to house and interviewed the people. They never knew what he wrote down. According to an
old retired Minister in his 80's that James talked with in Alabama last month; most of the enumerators
were "Carpet-Baggers" and the people did not cooperate with them. He said sometimes
a family would load up in the wagon and go off some place to avoid the census if they knew the enumerator was coming by. Or they might deliberately provide false data; or maybe a neighbor supplied the information. The enumerators were probably noteducated beyond being able to read and write. I'm sure they guessed at spellings, or maybe even substituted names when they happened
up on those that were hard to spell.
On
September 15,
1995, I was in the library reading about the Woods' in
South Carolina (Francis Marion Woods was recorded in a census record as having been born in
South Carolina). I thought about the Thomas D.
Woods listed as Tom Jr. in the 1920 Alabama census. I went to the computer
the library has and did a search of the phone directory for all of the United States. There were 12 Thomas D. Woods listed.
When I got home I sat down and wrote a letter to all 12 of them asking if they were descended from Francis Marion Woods
born March 3, 1846.
On
Monday Evening September 18th, I had a call from Tom Jr., who lives in Stone Mountain Georgia now. He is 77 years of age and was the Tom Jr. listed in the 1920 census
as being 1 yr. And 4 mos. Old. We talked for 30 minutes or more. He has a book titled "Joseph Woods of South Carolina", and will make a copy
and send it to me. I believe this Joseph Woods is the Grandfather of Francis
Marion and our Joseph, but he may be back another generation or so. We now know he was the great great grandfather of Francis Marion Woods.
Tom has a son also named Thomas D. who lives in Lawrenceville, Ga. He also got one of my letters. Tom also has his Grandfather's
(Francis Marion) Bible that contains quite a lot of information that he will share with us.
Tom said that, his great grandfather, Thomas Dargan Woods, was born July 23, 1808. That he married Elizabeth, who was born August 14, 1818, on December
4, 1836. They had several children, one of whom was Joseph Rogers
Woods, born December 4, 1838 (my great grandfather).
Tom
also told me that he has a cousin (son of F.M.'s daughter Alice and her husband William Walter Perry) named Glenn O. Perry
in California. His address is 10200 Chapman Ave., Garden Grove, Ca. 92640. According to Tom, Glenn has a niece in San Diego who is working on the family
history and might have more information. I have written to Glenn to get the niece's
address so I can write to her. Glenn never
gave me her name or address, but got the information from her and sent it to me.
Tom told me he would like to have a copy of the letter of July 1, 1904 and also
a copy of the picture of his Grandfather, Grandmother and Father. I wrote him
and am sending Zerox copies to him. If this is a photograph that they don't already
have I would like to get a negative made and send him a good copy if possible. I'm
sending cousin Joyce Brooks this information, so maybe she will go ahead and have a negative made. She never did.
Thursday, September 21, 1995.
About
8:00 P.M., I had a call from Glenn Perry in California. He thanked me profusely for the copies I sent to him (the picture of his Grandpa, Grandma and Uncle, Thomas
Dargan Woods, and a copy of the letter that Francis Marion wrote to Uncle Tom. Glenn said that his Mother Alice Woods Perry
had accumulated a lot of records on the family history. It was her wish that
the papers be given to Samford University in Birmingham when she died. Her daughter took
all of the papers to the University and they said they would catalog them. Glen
also told me that he talked with his niece today and she is sending him what she has.
He will go through it and send me copies of what is appropriate for the Woods family.
In reviewing the census records that James sent to me, I concluded that there were seven children born to F.M. and
Sophronia. Glenn told me that there were only six. Mary Elizabeth in the 1880 census became Mamie in the 1900 census; so they are one-and-the same. Glenn also told me that his Grandpa (Francis Marion) fought in the battle of Gettysburg, and that his family had his musket. That it used to be kept in a closet. Someone in the family took it and no one owns up to having it now, so he doesn't know
what happened to it. Glen has a book that tells the history of some prominent families, his included, but he couldn't tell
me the name of it. He lives in a nursing home and I gather must be incapacitated. Said he would get the information for me. My
cousin James has been in contact with a lady with the Darlington County Historical Society in Darlington,
South Carolina. She sent him a list of information available on the
Woods Family there. He checked off what he wanted copies of and sent it back. She is to get the material together and send it to him. James says she is almost as excited about this as he is. James gave me copies of what he got and it will follow later in this paper.
My
line is as follows: (Some early generations are not shown in the pedigree charts above!)
By Generation:
______Woods
and Isabel Frame
These
were my, 7th great grandparents. _______Woods was born in Scotland and immigrated to Ireland where he married Isabel Frame whose father came from Scotland. Possibly her mother was also from Scotland, but she may have been Irish.
Andrew
Woods and _________
Andrew,
his wife and nine children sailed from Londonderry, Ireland about 1727. During the voyage to America, Andrew and eight of the children died. Andrew and three of the children
are buried on the Island of Antigua, four children were buried at sea prior to the arrival at Antigua and
one child was buried at sea between Antigua and Philadelphia. The youngest child, Joseph, was the only one of the nine children, that embarked,
who survived the voyage. The eldest son Samuel, who came to America before the rest of the family and the youngest son Joseph cared for their mother and thrived in the new, world. They became men of wealth and prominence and left many descendents.
Joseph
Woods and Elizabeth Logan
THE FOLLOWING BOOKLET WAS WRITTEN BY THE DESCENDANTS OF JOSEPH WOODS:
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“ Joseph Woods
of South Carolina”
All of us are apt to think that any family information we need is never far from hand.
Perhaps that is true if we know whom to contact but after nearly three hundred years it is hard to find. The copy of the delightful small manuscript by Mary Woods Morgan after she was past ninety years old gives
us the background of the family in Ireland.
About the year 1670 Sir James Graham, better known as "Claverhouse", was sent into Scotland to compel the Presbyterians to conform to the established worship of the Church of
England. From that time on, till William and Mary came to the throne, the Presbyterians
of Scotland worshipped in hidden places and in peril of life. James 1st had induced
the Scotch people to go to the northern part of Ireland in 1610; they settled principally in Downs, Londonderry and Antrim,
and to this day the character of these counties is superior to that of other inhabitants of Ireland. So, during the Claverhouse persecutions, many of the Scots escaped to Ireland and joined their Presbyterian brethren, some crossing the narrow sea in open boats. They carried with them their unswerving integrity and their peculiar religious faith,
all the more dear to them and firmly rooted, because so watered with tears of sorrow.
These were the people, composed of parts of different tribes, and from different parts of Scotland, who went to the north of Ireland and who have been known as Scotch-Irish. This name
does not denote a mixture in blood and Presbyterian in religion; the Irish were Celtic in blood and Catholic in religion;
and these elements do not mingle. The races are yet distinct in Ireland, although more than two and one-half centuries have elapsed since the Scots emigrated
there. The name Scotch-Irish is purely American; in Ireland they are called Scotch.
They prospered greatly in Ireland, but
after a time, the British Government began to tax them and harass them in countless ways; also exorbitant advances were made
in their rents until they were reduced to poverty. Actuated by the same spirit
that made our country what it is, they determined to leave a land that was endeared to them by no tradition only by adoption.
About the beginning of the 18th century the emigration to the American colonies began.
My great, great grandfather emigrated from Scotland to the north of Ireland. He married Isabel
Frame, whose father had emigrated from Scotland. She was born and died in Tryonne County, Ireland. Their son was Andrew
Woods (my great-grandfather). His eldest son, Samuel Woods, came over to Pennsylvania and wrote back such glowing accounts of this land and urged so strongly for his father
to come, that Andrew Woods, with his wife and nine children, sailed from Ireland about 1727 or 1728. They had a stormy passage and
a very brutal captain. I suppose he knew little of navigation and became more and more furious as he got farther and farther
out of his course. That he got widely out of the way is proven by the fact that they were driven upon the Island of Antigua, north of South America. From bad weather and insufficient and bad provisions and a crowded vessel, the ship
fever broke out and many of the passengers died. Andrew Woods and three of his
children died and were buried on the Island of Antigua. They stayed there several weeks and
at last sailed for Philadelphia.
Water became scarce and the captain finally declared it was almost all gone, and put them on so short an allowance
that many died of thirst. One of Great grandfather's daughters, Rebecca, a young
woman, died in sight of land, calling for water. She was buried in the ocean. Finally, after being forty-two weeks on the voyage the poor mother landed at Philadelphia with one child, my grandfather, Joseph Woods.
He was then about four years old. All the others, her husband and children
had died during the voyage. After landing at Philadelphia it was discovered that there were several hogsheads of water which the captain, in
his brutality, had denied to his passengers.
She found her son, Samuel, and lived with him the remainder of her life, dying at a very advanced age. Joseph Woods, (my grandfather) remained in Philadelphia until after his marriage with Elizabeth Logan.
Before the War of the Revolution, Samuel and Joseph Woods emigrated to South Carolina; and Joseph Woods became very wealthy. Being an active
Whig, he was appointed a delegate to the Continental Congress. He went to Charleston in 1776, preparatory to going to Philadelphia but was taken sick and died.
My father, his eldest son, (named after his grandfather buried on the Island of Antigua) went to Charleston, attended him through his sickness and buried him. Coffins with raised
lids were not common in those days, but his coffin was made of cedar, finely polished, and there were four flying angels,
one on each side in front of the largest part and one on each side at the foot. These
were inlaid with gold and on top in the middle was a silver plate with his name and age and the words "Liberty or Death". He was buried in the cemetery at
Charleston.
My father entered the army and was a captain. The winter of '78 the Southern
army wintered near the North
Carolina line, and was so reduced
by death and the desertion that when spring came the companies had to be consolidated and the captains drew lots for command. My father drew a blank and went home. He
moved to Wilkes County, North Carolina, where I was born, and also my brother, Joseph Hamilton Woods. My great
grandfather, David Hamilton, lived in Augusta County, Virginia. He lived to be ninety-six years old. His daughter, Suzannah Hamilton, my grandmother was married to Jas.
Stephenson. Their daughter, Mary Stephenson, married my father, Andrew Woods. My mother, Mary Stephenson, was born in Augusta County, Virginia. It was with her aunt, Mrs. Stephenson, sometimes called "Stinson", that Washington boarded quite a while when surveying in that region. She
had seven or eight sons, and Washington was very intimate with the family.
I suppose the Stephensons emigrated to South Carolina before
my father's marriage. My grandfather, Joseph Woods, was a slaveholder, but father
as soon as he was old enough to think on the subject, was a firm opponent of the system.
I remember hearing him say that the Negro would be as great a plague and curse to the people of the United States as the children of Israel were to the Egyptians.
The above story was copied from a small manuscript, written by our great aunt Mary Woods Morgan, the daughter of Andrew
Woods of Revolutionary fame. This was written after she was past ninety years
old. She died January 20, 1877.
Signed - Lily
Woods Pence - Xmas 1888.
South Carolina. Historical and Genealogical Magazine - Vol. VII, Pages
103-5. Sept. 7, 1775.
Members of the Second Provincial Congress (South Carolina) List of Delegates elected 7, 8, 28, and 29th of last month to represent the inhabitants of South Carolina in the Colony Congress to be held in Charles Town on 1st day of December next.
For the District between the Broad and
Catawba Rivers,
adjoining the New Acquisition
"Joseph
Woods Esq."
who died February 14, 1776,
and the same day an election was ordered by Congress to fill the vacancy.
(The newspapers not published between Jan. 1776 and April 1777 and I can find no other account of his death).
Mabel S. Weber,
Charleston Library Building,
King Street,
Charleston, S.C.
Notes
The New Acquisition, represented by Joseph Woods in the South Carolina Provisional Committee, reorganized as First
South Carolina Provincial Congress, was the district in Northern South Carolina between
the Broad and Catawba Rivers. He may have been elected or agreed on, prior to his death, as a South Carolina Delegate
to the Continental Congress, in which case, he would have become a signer of the Declaration, but I have no record to prove
this. See Journal 1st South Carolina Congress; appointing Committee to arrange
his funeral, Feb
13-14, 1776.
There is a record in the courthouse in Chester County, Pennsylvania, of the applying of taxes about 1729-1740 of Samuel Woods, the elder brother of Joseph
Woods, of Tyronne County, Ireland.
These two brothers ultimately moved to the New Acquisition in South Carolina, where Joseph became a Revolutionary Patriot.
Mrs. Morgan's account of the family tells of the terrible trip from Ireland to America. A number of years ago, a friend of a descendant of Andrew Woods saw and got photostatic
copies of the records in Antigua. Another copy was
sent to England to show how old records on the Island of Antigua were. A few years
later (1950) a descendant of Andrew Woods and her husband were on a cruise and saw the actual record in the Anglican Cathedral
on the Island of Antigua. I am quoting from an article by Leslie H. Newman called “South Of the Virgins”.
******In the Antilles, Columbus claimed a foothold in the New World for the Spanish Crown. Here the English, the French, and the Spaniards
fought for centuries claiming islands for their respective kings. Here the pirates
and. brigands fought for the same periods claiming as much as they could for themselves.
Here a ship from Londonderry, Ireland bound for Philadelphia made its first landfall in 1728 and buried half of the passengers
including Andrew Woods and three of his children.
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ANTIGUA (pronounced
An-Tee’-ga)
******We entered the Churchyard
through a side gate in the rather high iron fence, walked through the cemetery where several of the plots had their own iron
fences and a number of goats found tombstones ideal spots in which to sun themselves, and went into the Church. No one was there. We left the church through the opposite
door thinking that we might find the rectory. We found ourselves at the top of
a flight of steps, twenty feet above a street. A group of sub-teen age girls
were sitting on the steps so we asked them where we might find the Dean.******
Dean G. S. Baker was very pleasant. He remembered looking up the record
of the burial of Andrew Woods several years before for an American Army Officer. He
thought that he had a photostatic copy of the register so he searched briefly for them, and then remembered that he had taken
them to England as a sample of the older records of the Cathedral. Dean Baker told us that it was impossible to locate exactly the earlier graves. In answer to our request the Dean said that he would be very glad to show us the register if we could come
back at about five. He had a funeral that afternoon. When we told him that we had to return to the boat at five thirty he drove us back to the Cathedral in his car. To an American, who is
used to large American cars, there was something rather humorous, but not in the least undignified, about the Dean in his
long unbleached linen robe, with his wide brimmed low crown hat sliding into the driver's seat of a bantam green British car.
From a wooden locker in a small room in one of the wings of the Cathedral, Dean Baker took a package which was marked
"1700 to1750". The binding of the register was gone and the edges of the sheets
showed signs of time. Each sheet was ruled in ink and on the heavier rulings
the paper was weakest. A vertical line separated dates from the names and horizontal
lines separated each of the chronological entries. The Dean opened the register
at 1732 and started turning toward the earlier dates. There, in the precise script
of the period, with each letter perfectly formed, were the names and the date of burial of people the world has long forgotten. For many this register may be the only remaining record of their life. Some entries showed a town name, many did not. A few carried
remarks such as "A Child" or "A Seaman". Early in 1728 many
entries were marked "From Londonderry". Probably all were passengers on the same ill-fated ship, which sailed from Ireland in 1727 carrying a maximum passenger load bound for the new hopes and new homes in
the colonies. An entry from January 16, 1728, read, "Body of Andrew Woods from Londonderry". This was preceded by, "January 14, "Body of Rebecca Woods". After
several intervening lines came, "February 1, "Body of John Woods, from Londonderry". As far as is known Andrew Woods' wife, whose given name has not been recorded, left
Londonderry with her husband and nine children. Andrew
Woods and three children are buried at Antigua, presumably four children died at sea before reaching the Island, and one child died within sight of land after re-embarking
for Philadelphia. Mrs. Woods and one
son, Joseph, finally completed the tragic voyage to what was to become the United States. ********
A lot of information has been found in an Old Woods Scotch Bible which was owned by Mrs. Walter Weatherhead of St. Paris, Ohio on February 10. 1932.
Isabel Frame who was born and died in Tyronne County, Ireland, married ________ Woods. Their son was
Andrew Woods, born in Ireland about 1680 and died on the Island of Antigua, West Indies, 1728. Strange to say no where is his wife referred to except as Mrs. Woods. Andrew Woods and his wife seem to have had ten children. The
eldest, Samuel, came to America early. Before the
boat, bringing the rest of the family to America, reached Antigua four of the children seem to have died. On the Island, the father and three more died.
Mrs. Woods continued the journey with her two remaining children. However,
before the boat could land, one of these died. Thus, when she disembarked at
Philadelphia there were only two left of the eleven who had left Ireland, Mrs. Woods and Joseph.
Samuel Woods had settled in Pennsylvania and left descendants but this deals principally with the descendants
of Joseph Woods.
Joseph Woods was born in Ireland July 15, 1723 and died in Charleston, South Carolina, February 13, 1776. He married in Pennsylvania about 1747-1748, Elizabeth Logan who was born June 11, 1727 and died January 19, 1768. The above mentioned Old Scotch Bible gives these as the
dates of Joseph Woods' first wife Elizabeth Logan. They had seven children.
1.
Andrew Woods born September 16, 1749
2. Hekel (Isabel) Woods
born the fall of 1750
3. Margaret Woods born September 20, 1751
4.
Frame Woods born January 20, 1754
5. Rebeka (Rebecca) Woods born May 24, 1756
6. Thomas Woods, one source, Old Woods Scotch Bible gives
birthday as December 13, 1758 and in May 1833
when Thomas Woods made application for a Revolutionary pension, he gave his birth date as December 13th. Another source gives it as
December 31, 1758. However, I believe
December 13, 1758 is correct.
7. Elizabeth Woods born November 8, 1761. The same above mentioned Bible gives the date of death of the first wife of Joseph Woods, Elizabeth Logan. Joseph Woods married a second time in South Carolina, Isabel _______,who died in 1780. They had one child.
8. Mary Parmelia Woods born August 18, 1773
Isabel Woods' last name has not been discovered nor the date of her birth but she died January 9, 1780. There is at least one deed on record
in York County, South Carolina signed by Joseph Woods, and his wife Isabel. The following is such a
deed.
Deed Book- C 442
November 28, 1774
Joseph Woods and Isabel his wife of Parish of St. Marks
Province of South Carolina
To Joseph Alexander of Mecklenburg County Province of No
Carolina. Minister of the Gospel.
300 acres - Broad River
Granted to Joseph Woods 25 April 1774.
Signed Joseph Woods
her
Isabell Woods
mark
In presence of Frame Woods
James Scott
Edith Woods
Sworn to and witnessed 23 Dec.1794.
Frame Woods
I. Andrew Woods, the first son of Joseph and Elizabeth Logan Woods, was
born September 16, 1749 and died March 26, 1803. He married on December 2, 1779, Mary Stephenson who was born 1752 and died June 22, 1844. They were the parents
of Ten children. Source of information is the afore mentioned old Scotch Bible.
1. Susanna Hamilton Woods born December 5, 1780, died November 11, 1851.
2. James Stephenson Woods born March 28, 1784 died June 1849.
3. Elizabeth Logan Woods born August 4, 1782.
4. Mary Stephenson Woods married a Morgan born June 17, 1786, died January 20, 1877.
5. Margaret Woods born June 2, 1788.
6. Rebeckah Woods born April 26, 1891.
7. Joseph Woods born December 25, 1793 died June
1871. On November 12, 1818 he married Sallie Hervirin, born December 16, 1800. Their children:
a. Margaret Ann Woods born December 14,1819
b. Thomas Frame Woods born June 2, 1822
c. Eliza Jane Woods born September 29, 1824
d. Mary Ann Woods born 1827
e. Rebecca Ellen Woods born December 8, 1833
8. Andrew Woods born March 7, 1796
9. David Woods born October 4, 1798
10. Frame Thomas Woods born December15, 1800
I have been unable to find any record of Hekel (Isabel) Woods or of Margaret Woods, first and second daughters
of Joseph and Elizabeth Logan Woods
II. Frame Woods, the second son of Joseph and Elizabeth Logan Woods was born January 28, 1754, and died before November 28, 1816. He married Edith Rogers who died after 1816.
His will is attached. He names his wife and all his children including
a daughter, Margery, about whom nothing can be found. Supposition is that he
did not approve of her marriage and removed her name from the family Bible.
In the name of God Amen.
I Frame Woods of Anson County North Carolina do make and ordain this my last will and testament, being of sound
mind and memory, but knowing that it is appointed unto all men to die, as concerning my burial I leave to the direction of
my executors and surviving family.
I will and bequeath to my beloved wife, Edith, my Negro man named Jack forever,
two beds and furniture, half of the kitchen and household goods forever also one half of my stock of horses, cows,
and hogs, and half of my books forever.
I will and bequeath to my daughter, Anne, my Negro boy named Jery forever, her bad and furniture with half of
the kitchen and household furniture, half of my stock of horses, cattle and hogs, with half of my books. I will and bequeath to my daughter, Margery, five dollars over and above what I gave her at her first marriage. After all my debts are paid, I will and bequeath
to my beloved wife one-third part of the remainder during her life or widowhood, then that part to be equally divided amongst
my sons, Joseph, Isham F., Andrew, and my daughters Mary and Anne, and in the same manner the other two-thirds.
I appoint and ordain my sons Joseph
Woods and Andrew Woods my executors with their Mother as Executrix, and I do hereby disannul all other and former wills to
all intent and purposes.
I allow my son, Joseph, to prove an account against my estate on account of money he paid on account of his
brother William although it might be barred on account of date.
Signed, sealed, and pronounced this
eighth day of December one thousand eight hundred and fifteen (1815) .
In presence of
John Henry Duncan
Frame Woods (L S)
Ducan A. McRa
South Carolina Darlington district
Personally appeared John Henry who being duly sworn saith he was present and did see the Reverend Frame Woods
sign and acknowledge the within to be his last will and testament and that Duncan A. McRa and this deponent witnessed the
due execution hereof in the presence of each other and of the testator, and that the said Frame Woods was at the time of signing
the same of a sound and disposing mind, memory and understanding as this deponent doth believe.
Sworn and subscribed to this 28th day of November 1816. John Henry
and qualified Edith Woods Executrix, Joseph Woods, and Andrew B. Woods, Executors.
George Bruce Ordinary D.D
Of
the daughters of Frame and Edith Rogers Woods, I have been unable to find out anything.
Joseph Woods, the first son, who married Hepzibah Dargan, was born
July 7, 1781 and died March 23, 1855. They had six children.
1. Thomas D. Woods went West, Mississippi I think.
There are descendants but I do not know the names.)
The section below with the yellow background was added by John Tom Woods. It contains
the descendants of Thomas D. (Dargan) Woods and was not a part of the booklet about Joseph Woods of South Carolins
1. Thomas Dargan Woods
born July 25, 1803 in Darlington, South Carolina, died June 27, 1867 in Marengo, Alabama. Married
December 4, 1836 in Darlington, South Carolina to Cynthia Elizabeth born August 14, 1818 in Darlington, South Carolina. Their children were:
a. Alexander Dargan Woods born August 6, 1837 died August 10, 1837.
Joseph Rogers Woods born December 4, 1838 in Coffee
County, Alabama, died December 25, 1862 in Beckville,
Panola, Texas.
Buried at Sugar Hill Cemetery, Beckville, Panola, Texas. Married July
9, 1857 to Mary Ann Arnold born April 4, 1833 in Talladega, Alabama
died in 1875 in Beckville, Panola, Texas.
Buried in Sugar Hill Cemetery, Beckville, Panola, Texas. Their children were:
1) James Alonzo Woods born September 17, 1858 in Birmingham, Jefferson, Alabama, died February 11, 1948
in Troup, Smith/Cherokee, Texas, buried at Waldrop Cemetery, Fairplay, Panola, Texas. Married December 15, 1878 to Ella Margaret Stone, born August 4, 1861
in Beckville, Panola, Texas,
died September 3, 1936 in Beckville, Panola, Texas, buried at Waldrop Cemetery, Fairplay, Panola,
Texas. Their children were:
(all born at Beckville, Panola, Texas and
all buried at Waldrop Cemetery,
Fairplay, Panola, Texas except where otherwise noted.)
a) Robbie Irene Woods born November
12, 1879, died October 13, 1909
in Beckville, Panola, Texas.
Married December 17, 1896 to Jefferson Stokes Allen.
b) Annie Zell Woods born November 18, 1880, died April 13, 1891 in Beckville,
Panola, Texas.
c) Joseph Hardy Woods born October
15, 1882, died August
6, 1960 in Carthage, Panola, Texas. Married May 24, 1904 to Ada Gertrude Gentry.
d) John N. Woods born September 1, 1884, died May 19, 1911 in Thurber,
Erath, Texas. Married about 1904 to Ollie Belle Harris.
e) Francis Eugenia
Woods born August 9, 1886, died March 24, 1954 in Conroe,
Montgomery, Texas.
Married January 1, 1903 James Kenney Williams.
f) Ada Bloom Woods born December 6, 1887, died August 18, 1888 in Beckville, Panola, Texas.
g) Flora Belle Woods
born September 1, 1888, died about 1926 in Beckville,
Panola, Texas.
Married about 1907 to Samuel Scott Crawford.
h) Thomas Monnie Woods born August
12, 1891, died September 27, 1933 in Beckville, Panola, Texas.
Married November 7, 1915 to Bessie Edna Brown in Henderson, Rusk, Texas.
i) James Lonnie Woods born August 12, 1891, died August 19, 1956 in Beckville,
Panola, Texas.
Married December 10, 1921 to Gladys Loduska Jones.
j) Harmond Franklin Woods born September
7, 1894, died November 12, 1950 in Houston, Harris, Texas.
Buried at Southpark Cemetery,
Pearland, Brazoria, Texas.
Married October 13, 1915 to Shadie Cornelia Starrett.
k) Benjamin Osborne Woods born August 20,1899, died July 16, 1900
in Beckville, Panola, Texas.
l) Mattie Marguerite Woods born June
26, 1902, died March 4, 1985 in Carthage, Panola, Texas Buried at Youngblood Cemetery, Beckville, Panola, Texas. Married December 14, 1924 to Frank Smith.
2) Thomas Seth Woods born 1861, died 1944. Married Marge Ann Amanda Sears
Mary Elizabeth Woods born 1884, died 1965. Married
Frank Gentry 1878-1938
b) Effie Beatrice Woods
born 1887, died 1978. Married
James
Edward Gentry 1883-1940
c) Thomas Arthur Woods
born 1888, died 1942 Married
Alta
Crawford 1884-1968
Joseph Homer Woods born 1891, died 1892.
e) James Walter Woods born
1893, died 1980. Married
Alma
Steger born 1895, died 1974.
f) Neal Oliver Woods born
1895, died 1990. Married
Jewel
Strong 1902-
g) Ellie Permelia Woods
born 1897, died 1986. Married
Jesse
Fletcher Brooks 1889-1963
Clarence Graham Woods born 1899, died 1901
i) Tiny Mae Woods born
1901, died 1992. Married
William
Allen Matthews born 1899 died 1960.
j) Bettie Cordell Woods born 1903 died 1966. Married
Aaron
SPARKS 1900-1980
k) Exie Averila Woods born 1905, died _____. Married
Floyd POLLARD 1903-
l) Marvin Dewey Woods born 1908, died
1983. Married
Nannie
Pearl Williams 1914-
The remainder
of the booklet was not entered here.
