Joseph "Joe" Lee Woods

Brief Life History of Joseph "Joe" Lee

Joseph "Joe" Lee Woods was born on 21 January 1894, in Pauls Valley, Garvin, Oklahoma, United States as the son of Mitchell. He married Bertha Maddon on 30 December 1916, in Garvin, Oklahoma, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Grady, Oklahoma, United States in 1935 and Chino Judicial Township, San Bernardino, California, United States in 1940. He died on 27 August 1985, in Sun City, Riverside, California, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Perris, Riverside, California, United States.

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Joseph "Joe" Lee Woods
1894–1985
Bertha Maddon
1900–1982
Marriage: 30 December 1916
J C Woods
1917–1979
Altus Dale Woods
1919–2006
Jeneta Woods
1921–1992
Norma Jean Woods
1926–2015
Betty Jo Woods
1930–
Helen Newona Woods
1931–2004
Billy Woods
1935–
Charles Derrel Woods
1942–2002

Sources (27)

  • Joe Woods, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Joe Woods, "Oklahoma, County Marriages, 1890-1995"
  • Joe Lee Woods, "BillionGraves Index"

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World Events (8)

1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

1907

Oklahoma is the 46th state.

1918 · Attempting to Stop the War

To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.

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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