Brief Life History of John Robert
When John Robert Woodrow was born on 24 October 1859, in Marion, South Carolina, United States, his father, J. Neil Campbell Woodrow, was 35 and his mother, Margaret Amarintha Askins, was 36. He married Cornelia Florence Smith about 1880, in South Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in McMillen Township, Marion, South Carolina, United States for about 10 years and McMillen Township, Florence, South Carolina, United States for about 10 years. He died on 10 June 1910, in Effingham, Florence, South Carolina, United States, at the age of 50, and was buried in Tabernacle Church, Florence, South Carolina, United States.
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- Robt Woodrow in household of J N C Woodrow, "United States Census, 1860"
- J R Woodrow in entry for C S Woodrow and Bloomer Proctin, "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 "
- John R Woodrow in household of Neill C Woodrow, "United States Census, 1870"
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1860
In 1860, South Carolina quit the United States because its citizens were in favor of slavery and President Lincoln was not. The Civil War started a year later.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
English (Norfolk): from Middle English wode ‘wood’ + reue ‘row, row of houses’ (Old English wudu + rǣw, rāw). The surname may be topographic, for some who lived at or near a row of trees, or a row of houses within a wood, or it may be habitational, from any place so named, such as Wood Row in Hatfield Broad Oak (Essex) or Woodrow in Chaddesley Corbett (Worcestershire). There may have been some confusion with Woodruff .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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