Margaret Reletta Woodward

Brief Life History of Margaret Reletta

When Margaret Reletta Woodward was born on 7 May 1897, in Monongahela, Washington, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Charles Francis Woodward, was 19 and her mother, Mary Ann Mccormley, was 19. She married Albert Bingley McCorkle on 16 August 1920, in Cumberland, Allegany, Maryland, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Clairton, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States in 1920 and Elizabeth, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States for about 10 years. She died on 1 February 1986, in Glen Burnie, Anne Arundel, Maryland, United States, at the age of 88.

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Family Time Line

Albert Bingley McCorkle
1893–1966
Margaret Reletta Woodward
1897–1986
Marriage: 16 August 1920
Jack Woodward McCorkle
1921–2002

Sources (10)

  • Margaret McCorkle, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Margaret Mccorkle, "United States Social Security Death Index"
  • Margaret Woodward in entry for Jack Woodward Mccorkle and Verna Jo Griffin, "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950"

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World Events (8)

1898 · War with the Spanish

After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.

1905 · The Movie Theater

The world’s first movie theater was located in Pittsburgh. It was referred to as a nickelodeon as at the time it only cost 5 cents to get in. 

1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack

Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.

Name Meaning

English: occupational name for a forester employed to look after the trees and game in a forest, Middle English woodward (from Old English wudu ‘wood’ + weard ‘guardian, protector’).

History: Henry Woodward emigrated from England in 1635 and settled first in Dorchester, MA, and subsequently in Northampton, MA. He had many prominent descendants. Another Henry Woodward, born c. 1646 in the British West Indies, was the first English settler in SC (1664).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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