When Herman M Woods was born on 11 December 1849, in Batavia, Genesee, New York, United States, his father, Manson Mansul Woods, was 36 and his mother, Sarah Jane Morgan, was 36. He married Mary Helen Sergeant on 23 July 1873, in Chelsea, Washtenaw, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Michigan, United States in 1870 and Chelsea, Washtenaw, Michigan, United States in 1880. He died on 2 September 1907, in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw, Michigan, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery, Dixboro, Superior Township, Washtenaw, Michigan, 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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