He was third in the family of eleven children of Alexander and Elizabeth Meek Woods. He lived at home until 1860 when he crossed the plains to California in a stagecoach. There he was engaged for 5 years on his Uncle Wm. Meek's ranch as foreman of the wheat trains, hauling the grain with mule team to Oakland and San Fransisco. He returned to Iowa in 1865 coming by steamboat to Panama, across the isthmus and again by water to New York and by railroad to Iowa.
On Dec. 31, 1867 he was united in marriage with Mary DeHart, they making their home for a year within sight of the old home and then moving to Vernon township where he lived for 35 years. To this union were born six children, who are: Mrs. Alice Morris, of Colby, Kan.; Eugenia, at home; Otto, who resides on the home farm in Vernon township; Albert of near Bonaparte, Iowa; John H. of Lepanto, Arkansas; and Robert Paul of Bonaparte. The wife and mother died in 1883, leaving the infant Paul to be taken and cared for by his aunt, Henrietta Leffler.
He was third in the family of eleven children of Alexander and Elizabeth Meek Woods. He lived at home until 1860 when he crossed the plains to California in a stagecoach. There he was engaged for 5 years on his Uncle Wm. Meek's ranch as foreman of the wheat trains, hauling the grain with mule team to Oakland and San Fransisco. He returned to Iowa in 1865 coming by steamboat to Panama, across the isthmus and again by water to New York and by railroad to Iowa.
On Dec. 31, 1867 he was united in marriage with Mary DeHart, they making their home for a year within sight of the old home and then moving to Vernon township where he lived for 35 years. To this union were born six children, who are: Mrs. Alice Morris, of Colby, Kan.; Eugenia, at home; Otto, who resides on the home farm in Vernon township; Albert of near Bonaparte, Iowa; John H. of Lepanto, Arkansas; and Robert Paul of Bonaparte. The wife and mother died in 1883, leaving the infant Paul to be taken and cared for by his aunt, Henrietta Leffler.
Family Members
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Nancy A Woods Johnson
1832–1871
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Mary Jane Woods Hilles
1832–1886
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William V Woods
1834–1908
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Elizabeth Woods DeHart
1839–1925
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Mary Ann Woods
1843–1846
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Cynthia Ellen Woods Glascock
1846–1906
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Sarah Louise Woods Edmonson
1848–1936
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Mary V. Woods
1851–1883
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Henrietta Woods Leffler
1854–1930
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Jessie Fremont Woods Davis
1856–1935
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