When Jessie Neil Woodward was born on 24 December 1889, in Monongahela, Washington, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Francis Noble Woodward, was 40 and her mother, Virginia G Filson, was 39. She married Robert Charles Heil on 29 June 1908, in Wellsburg, Brooke, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States for about 10 years. She died on 18 November 1963, in Scott Township, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Monongahela Cemetery, Monongahela, Washington, Pennsylvania, United States.
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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).
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