When Henry McKee Woods was born on 14 August 1857, in Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, United States, his father, Rev. Edgar Woods, was 29 and his mother, Maria Cooper Baker, was 25. He married Josephine Underwood on 9 October 1883. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He immigrated to San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States in 1918 and lived in Ventnor City, Egg Harbor Township, Atlantic, New Jersey, United States in 1940 and Richmond, Virginia, United States in 1943. He died on 2 December 1943, in Saint Petersburg, Pinellas, Florida, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States.
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The Battle of Manassas is also referred to as the First Battle of Bull Run. 35,000 Union troops were headed towards Washington D.C. after 20,000 Confederate forces. The McDowell's Union troops fought with General Beauregard's Confederate troops along a little river called Bull Run.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
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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