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A Woodlief Family Genealogy: North Carolina | ||
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genealogical materials have been compiled by Ann
Woodlief, drawing largely from materials collected by Elizabeth Anne Taylor
Kerman and Pearl Woodlief Blackley. Associated files are the Woodlief
Family: British Ancestry and Woodlief
Family: Colonial Virginia Please e-mail awoodlief@yahoo.com if you wish to copy, amend, or add. The Woodlief Family Genealogy Forum Woodlief Research List | ||
Thomas Woodlief (--ca. 1808, Granville Co NC) and --- CarrThomas served in Captain John Glover's Company under Colonel William Eaton in 1754 with his brothers George, Littlebury, and William (enrolled in Indian War against Seminoles?) He had come to NC by 1750 with his brothers. A deed is recorded for 220 acres on n. side of Tar River on Buffalo Creek, 5/13/1762; this was the homeplace called Berkeley (foundation ruins still exist?).Children: Phillip [Woodley/Woodliff], -1877, m. Polly Washington: Robert Gaston, m. Sallie Perry 1869: Fanny {Gargas}, Caroline {Saunders}, Susan {Harris}, Robert Gaston, m. Charity Frazier, Willis Spirus, m. Van Delia Perry; (d. 1877). Robert Gaston Jr. had eleven children: Rancher, Robin W., Sallie, Minnie, Ramen, Florence, Mollie, Albbert, Learner, William, Thurman. Thomas, married, 4 children, killed in Revolutionary War. In 1791 certificate attests that he enlisted for 2 1/2 years in Capt. Jacob Turner's Company in the Third Regiment of NC troops; he received only 3 pounds for his service (upon enlistment). John, m. Mollie Cooper (see below) | ||
John Woodlief {Woodliff} (1765 NC-ca. 1849 Granville Co. NC) and Mollie Cooper (1760 NC-)They were married 9/5/1786 Granville Co. NC.Children: Patsy, m. --- Bobbitt: Claiborne (+) Sallie, m. --- Parrish 1846: Charles (+); m.2 William Mitchell Sarah (Savory?) John Jr., m. Ann Powell (see below) Cornelius
(1801-74), m. ca. 1820 Lucy Powell (1805-80): [family
graves in Kittrell: Cornelius 1819-1875; Lucy 1822-1878]
Benjamin (b. 1798), m. Mary (Molly) Parrish: Irving m. 1856 Ann Elizabeth Edwards (: Orbeam, Lucetta, Molly, Eugene, Hugh, Hugh, Emmett Esedore, Zina Orestes); John B. (Jack) m. 1866 Mary Hight & Caroline T. Keith; Nathaniel m. 1864 Roberta H. Edwards, m. 1871 Maria Hight; Mary Frances m. 1858 John Hedgepeth; Sallie m. 1853 James Hedgepeth; Margaret m.1855 William D. Davis; Benjamin H. (Bert) m.1865 Mary A. Stauton | ||
John Woodlief Jr. (1795 Granville Co. NC-1861 Henderson NC) and Ann Powell (1813-1893)They were married 20/11/1832 in Granville Co. She was the daughter of Edwin Powell and Eliza York, m. 15/7/1799. Siblings were Lucy, m. 1820 Cornelius Woodlief, Temperance m. 1824 James O. Hunt, William, Barbary, m. 1826 Jonathan Hunt, Patsey, Edwin, m. 1833 Lishe Leeman, George, m. 1836 Quincy Strickland, Hillard, Archy, m. 1830 Arrebella Bobbitt, Judge, m. 1835 Mary Garrott. John and Ann were charter members of Union Chapel. Both are buried in Vance Co. where Owens Rest Home is now.Children: William Hilliard, m. Amy Abigail Overton 7/4/1862 (see below) James (b. 1837; d. 1863 Civil War at Gettysburg), m. ca. 1860 Mary Jane Flynn George S. (1838-1863, died Civil War) Benjamin Thaddeus (1841-1929), m. 1867 Lucy C. Perkinson (1852-1939):
Eliza Jane (1844-1929), m. William Breedlove Harriet Elizabeth (1848-1930), m. Charles Goodson John Henry (1851-1914), m. Ellen Perkinson (1854-1917) Mary Frances (1854-1932), m. James Goodson: James Howell, Cassie Hurley [Pace] Note: Here is a letter from James and George from Camp near Rocky Mount Va, January the 12th, 1863:
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William Hilliard Woodlief (23/11/1835-12/7/1908 Vance Co. NC) and Amy Abigail Overton (2/6/1839- 31/3/1915)They were married 7/4/1862 in Vance Co. NC. Amy Abigail was the daughter of James Overton (ca. 1795/1800-before 28/7/1848) and Jane Merritt (ca. 1800-before 1880), daughter of Benjamin Merritt, married. 12/9/1822. William and Abigail are buried at Union Chapel. His stone reads "He was a kind husband, a fond father, a friend to all." Hers reads "Gone but not forgotten" and she is named as Abigail G.Children: Aldridge W. (27/5/1879-6/18/1929), m. Lucy Minnie (1885-1958) 11/2/1909: Lessie, Kenneth, Eleanor, Theresa m. Fred Keith (:Shirley [Frazier], Betty [Frazier] , Mildred [Ross]] Ida Jane (b. 23/12/1873), m. Norman P. Lowry 18/6/1935 James
Moses (b. 31/7/1863), m. (1) Mary McKone 12/1/1887: Arthur Sherman, m. Della J. Lowry (see below) Lula Anne (10//81867-9/10/1946), m. John William Hedgepeth John Plummer (b. 27/5/1879), m. Annie Hight 15/11/1899: Beatrice, Ricky, Elmo, Brooks, Doris, Hazel, Pauline, Blanche, Ruby [Falkner] | ||
Arthur Sherman Woodlief (23/2/1865 Kittrell NC-14/3/1908 Kittrell NC and Della J. Lowry (18/8/1875 Franklinton NC-28/3/1958 Henderson NC )They were married 21/2/1892 in Franklin Co.. NC. She was the daughter of Sandford Presley Lowry/Loury (1827, Franklin-) and Arabella Winston (born 1/10/1835, Franklin NC, to Benjamin Winston, 1804-, & Elizabeth Hendley, 1808-) married 30/10/1850 in Franklin. Arthur and his brother, J. Moses, owned a store in Kittrell. He is said to have been a "man of integrity, kind and considerate of others, quiet and unobtrusive in manner, courteous and obliging, industrious and attentive to duty and uncomplaining." He died of pneumonia and is buried with Della at Union Chapel. Children: Frederick Plummer Sr. (11/4/1893-19/11/1974 Richmond VA), m. (1) Sallie Turner Stone: Frederick Plummer Jr. (b. 14/1/1917), m. (2) Christine Cook Guy Forrest Sr., m. Mabelle Godshall (see below) Elna, 1900-01 Lallie, 1903-04 Arthur Sherman Woodlief Jr. (23/6/1908-21/8/1990) m. Edna Omega Wallace | ||
Guy Forrest Woodlief Sr (29/12/1898 Kittrell NC-19/4/1975) and Mabelle Louetta Godshall (12/2/1898 Montgomery Co PA-25/11/1970)[continuation of line is not listed here; contact me if you need more.] |