According to census records, James was born in Kentucky circa 1796. He married a woman named Susan, and they were the parents of Elizabeth, Laura, John Wesley and Catharine according to the 1850 Morehouse Parish census.
In 1911, C.C. Davenport published "Looking Backwards: Memoirs of the Early Settlement of Morehouse Parish". On page 26 he wrote:
"About the next settler [Prairie Mer Rouge] was James Woodburn, who settled near to the home of John Warfield. The children of James Woodburn were Lizzie, who married J.G. Bitzer; Sarah, who married Frank P. Bell [someone crossed out Frank P. and in the margin wrote James Franklin], and John W., who was killed at the battle of Oak Hill, Mo."
The 1850 Morehouse Parish Slave Schedules show him with 36 slaves.
In the 1950's, The Abram Morehouse Chapter, Louisiana Society, N.S.D.A.R. copied the cemetery he was buried in for their "Louisiana Tomsbstone Inscriptions" Series, Volume 2, Morehouse Parish. On page 30, the cemetery is transcribed as "Old Cemetery on the Gallion Between Oak Ridge and Mer Rouge." James Woodburn's entry states: "James Woodburn, died March 8, 1859 Aged 63, years, 2 months".
In 1911, C.C. Davenport published "Looking Backwards: Memoirs of the Early Settlement of Morehouse Parish". On page 26 he wrote:
"About the next settler [Prairie Mer Rouge] was James Woodburn, who settled near to the home of John Warfield. The children of James Woodburn were Lizzie, who married J.G. Bitzer; Sarah, who married Frank P. Bell [someone crossed out Frank P. and in the margin wrote James Franklin], and John W., who was killed at the battle of Oak Hill, Mo."
The 1850 Morehouse Parish Slave Schedules show him with 36 slaves.
In the 1950's, The Abram Morehouse Chapter, Louisiana Society, N.S.D.A.R. copied the cemetery he was buried in for their "Louisiana Tomsbstone Inscriptions" Series, Volume 2, Morehouse Parish. On page 30, the cemetery is transcribed as "Old Cemetery on the Gallion Between Oak Ridge and Mer Rouge." James Woodburn's entry states: "James Woodburn, died March 8, 1859 Aged 63, years, 2 months".
According to census records, James was born in Kentucky circa 1796. He married a woman named Susan, and they were the parents of Elizabeth, Laura, John Wesley and Catharine according to the 1850 Morehouse Parish census.
In 1911, C.C. Davenport published "Looking Backwards: Memoirs of the Early Settlement of Morehouse Parish". On page 26 he wrote:
"About the next settler [Prairie Mer Rouge] was James Woodburn, who settled near to the home of John Warfield. The children of James Woodburn were Lizzie, who married J.G. Bitzer; Sarah, who married Frank P. Bell [someone crossed out Frank P. and in the margin wrote James Franklin], and John W., who was killed at the battle of Oak Hill, Mo."
The 1850 Morehouse Parish Slave Schedules show him with 36 slaves.
In the 1950's, The Abram Morehouse Chapter, Louisiana Society, N.S.D.A.R. copied the cemetery he was buried in for their "Louisiana Tomsbstone Inscriptions" Series, Volume 2, Morehouse Parish. On page 30, the cemetery is transcribed as "Old Cemetery on the Gallion Between Oak Ridge and Mer Rouge." James Woodburn's entry states: "James Woodburn, died March 8, 1859 Aged 63, years, 2 months".
In 1911, C.C. Davenport published "Looking Backwards: Memoirs of the Early Settlement of Morehouse Parish". On page 26 he wrote:
"About the next settler [Prairie Mer Rouge] was James Woodburn, who settled near to the home of John Warfield. The children of James Woodburn were Lizzie, who married J.G. Bitzer; Sarah, who married Frank P. Bell [someone crossed out Frank P. and in the margin wrote James Franklin], and John W., who was killed at the battle of Oak Hill, Mo."
The 1850 Morehouse Parish Slave Schedules show him with 36 slaves.
In the 1950's, The Abram Morehouse Chapter, Louisiana Society, N.S.D.A.R. copied the cemetery he was buried in for their "Louisiana Tomsbstone Inscriptions" Series, Volume 2, Morehouse Parish. On page 30, the cemetery is transcribed as "Old Cemetery on the Gallion Between Oak Ridge and Mer Rouge." James Woodburn's entry states: "James Woodburn, died March 8, 1859 Aged 63, years, 2 months".
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