When Andrew H. Woods was born on 7 March 1796, in Bracken, Kentucky, United States, his father, Andrew Woods, was 46 and his mother, Mary Hamilton Stephenson, was 44. He married Cassandra Whaley on 7 October 1817, in Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Ohio Township, Spencer, Indiana, United States in 1850 and Elk Point, Union, Dakota Territory, United States in 1870. He died on 7 September 1878, in Elk Point, Union, South Dakota, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Burbank, Clay, South Dakota, 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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