WOODWARDs WeSearch ~ Queries
- I have information that my ancestor, Samuel H. Woodward, was born in 1793 in Hebron, Washington County, New York. He married Anna Huntington Livingston in Hebron on February 6, 1813. Her father, Dr. William Livingston, married to Sarah Tracy, was the son of early Hebron settler John Livingston, and a prominent citizen of the town. All the information on the family from Samuel and Anna on down is well documented. Their first child, Sarah Woodward, was born in Ticonderoga, Essex, New York, in 1814. The remaining children were born in Western New York, and the family continued to move further west. Various sources report that Samuel and Anna, along with their youngest son, died in 1846 in Jackson County, Iowa. But who were Samuel's parents? They may have been Joseph and Elizabeth Sharp Woodward of Hebron. A petition, filed after Joseph's death with Surrogate Court in Washington County in 1841, names a son "Henry whose residence on diligent inquiry is unknown" and I believe he is Samuel H. The only other Woodwards in Hebron at the time, Archibald and Anna Scott Woodward, had a son Samuel Woodward, born in 1813, and living in Hebron in 1841 according to the petition filed after Archibald's death.
Submitted by Rosemary McNerney Winkler, April 22, 2005
- I am co-administrator of the Woodward Surname Project with Family Tree DNA and actively recruiting male Woodward participants for the project. This fascinating, cutting-edge, genealogy tool is currently featured at the National Geographic website, nationalgeographic.com. Look for the Genographic Project about worldwide DNA. Anyone can participate.
Submitted by Rosemary McNerney Winkler, April 22, 2005