When Lela Ava Woods was born on 12 April 1885, in Zena, Polk, Oregon, United States, her father, Joseph Calvin Woods, was 41 and her mother, Viola Florilla Rector, was 38. She married Ralph Curtis Shepard on 3 January 1906, in Corvallis, Benton, Oregon, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Spring, Josephine, Oregon, United States in 1910 and Spring Valley, Polk, Oregon, United States for about 20 years. She died on 5 September 1977, in Salem, Marion, Oregon, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Zena Cemetery, Zena, Polk, Oregon, United States.
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The Oregon Historical Society was founded on December 17, 1898, for the “collection, preservation, exhibition, and publication of material of a historical character, especially that relating to the history of Oregon and of the 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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