When John E. Woods was born on 28 December 1824, in Highland, Ohio, United States, his father, Isaac Moses Woods, was 26 and his mother, Elizabeth Mattie Gallentine, was 21. He married Susannah Rhoads on 25 November 1847, in Highland, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Des Moines Township, Dallas, Iowa, United States in 1870 and Peoples Township, Boone, Iowa, United States in 1880. He died on 4 September 1891, in Dickinson, Kansas, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Dickinson, Kansas, United States.
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English: variant of Wood with plural or post-medieval excrescent -s.
Irish: adopted as a translation of Ó Cuill ‘descendant of Coll’ (see Quill ), or in Ulster of Mac Con Coille ‘son of Cú Choille’, a personal name meaning ‘hound of the wood’, which has also been mistranslated Cox , as if formed with coileach ‘cock, rooster’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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