Albert Woods

Brief Life History of Albert

When Albert Woods was born on 23 January 1852, in Greenville, Mercer, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Cyrus Woods, was 29 and his mother, Ann Amanda Caldwell, was 26. He married Anna Reyner on 6 October 1878, in Adair, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Wilson, Adair, Missouri, United States in 1880 and Colorado Springs, El Paso, Colorado, United States in 1900. He died on 9 July 1916, in Gilman City, Harrison, Missouri, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in La Plata, Macon, Missouri, United States.

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Family Time Line

Albert Woods
1852–1916
Anna Reyner
1858–1899
Marriage: 6 October 1878
Elsie Pearl Woods
1879–1952
Earl Cyrus Woods
1881–1882
Lester Richard Woods
1884–1887
Mabel Ida Woods
1886–1975
Jennie Marguerite Woods
1890–1972
Dorothy Maxie Woods
1894–1970

Sources (10)

  • Albert Woods in household of Cyrus Woods, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Albert Woods, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
  • Albert Woods, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1854

Historical Boundaries: 1854: Adair, Missouri, United States

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

Name Meaning

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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