Samuel Work Woodward and Mary Ann Curry

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Husband Samuel Work Woodward ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 24 Apr 1833 - Menallen Twp, Fayette Co, PA 1 3 4
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         Father: Davis Woodward (1805/1806-1882) 2 3 5 6 7
         Mother: Mary Boyd (1810-1890) 2 3 5 6 7

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       Marriage: 29 Dec 1859 1

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Wife Mary Ann Curry ^{3 8}

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           Born: 19 Apr 1840 or 1842 - Dunbar Twp, Fayette Co, PA 3 8 9
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         Father: James Curry (1805-      ) 3 8 9
         Mother: Elizabeth Parkill (      -      ) 8 9

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Children

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1 F Elizabeth Jane Woodward ^{8 9 10}

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           Born: 5 Sep 1860 8 10
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         Spouse: Edward Gilchrist (      -      ) 8 9 10

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2 F Ida Belle Woodward ^{8 9 10}

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           Born: 13 Oct 1862 8 10
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         Spouse: Rufus Phillips (      -      ) 8 9 10

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3 F Anna Laura Woodward ^{8 9 10}

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           Born: 8 Feb 1865 8 10
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         Spouse: John Frasher (      -      ) 8 9 10

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4 M James Curry Woodward ^{8 9 10}

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           Born: 8 Nov 1867 8 10
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5 M Ewing Finley Woodward ^{8 9 10}

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           Born: 26 Aug 1873 8 10
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         Spouse: Belle Woods (      -      ) 9 10

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General Notes: Husband - Samuel Work Woodward

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He was raised on a farm and received his education in the common schools of Dunbar township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania.
He owned 280 acres of good land in Menallen township, and gave the most of his time to its cultivation and improvement. He and his wife were members of Laurel Hill Presbyterian church.

He attended school in Dunbar township, where his parents lived for several years. After leaving school he chose the business of farming and
stock growing. He owned one hundred and eighty acres of well improved land, which was more valued for the coal that underlay it, than for the surface.

His education was received and his early life spent in Menallen township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, then he was in Dunbar township for twenty-six years, nine years in Franklin, finally returning to Menallen township. He was a successful farmer and amassed a comfortable fortune from his farming operations and a vein of coal underlying his farm of one hundred acres. He was a Democrat in politics, and was a member of the Presbyterian church at Laurel Hill.

1 John M. Gresham, Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: John M. Gresham & Co., 1889), Pg 403.

2 —, Nelson's Biographical Dictionary and Historical Reference Book of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Uniontown, PA: S. B. Nelson, Publisher, 1900), Pg 953, 1044, 1178.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1912), Pg 218.

4 —, Nelson's Biographical Dictionary and Historical Reference Book of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Uniontown, PA: S. B. Nelson, Publisher, 1900), Pg 1178.

5 Franklin Ellis, History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 547.

6 John M. Gresham, Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: John M. Gresham & Co., 1889), Pg 403, 484.

7 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 30.

8 John M. Gresham, Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: John M. Gresham & Co., 1889), Pg 404.

9 —, Nelson's Biographical Dictionary and Historical Reference Book of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Uniontown, PA: S. B. Nelson, Publisher, 1900), Pg 1179.

10 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1912), Pg 219.