Brief Life History of James E
When James E Woody was born on 4 September 1916, in Pittsburg, Laurel, Kentucky, United States, his father, William Emory Woody, was 28 and his mother, Myrtle Mae Miller, was 24. He married Emma Brenda about 1940, in Kentucky, United States. He lived in Laurel, Kentucky, United States in 1930 and Magisterial District 3, Laurel, Kentucky, United States in 1940. His occupation is listed as schoolteacher, manger of production credit assoc in Columbia, Adair, Kentucky, United States. He died on 24 October 2007, in Columbia, Adair, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in District of Columbia, United States.
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Sources (12)
- James Woodie in household of William Woodie, "United States Census, 1940"
- Legacy NFS Source: James E Woody - Published information: Census record: birth-name: James E Woody
- James Woody, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
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World Events (8)
1917
U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
1926 · Mammoth Cave is Discovered
In 1926, in central Kentucky, Mammoth Cave was discovered. It dates back to Mississippian times and consists of over four hundred miles of passageway. On July 1, 1941, the cave was made a National Park.
1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
English:
from Middle English wode ‘wood’ + heie ‘enclosure’ (Old English wudu + (ge)hæg). The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived by an enclosure in a wood, or habitational, for a person from a place so named, such as Woodhey Green in Faddiley (Cheshire). Also possibly from East Woodhay (Hampshire) and West Woodhay (Berkshire), apparently named with Old English wīd ‘wide, broad’ as the initial element, confused with early Old English widu ‘wood’, and so too with Old English wudu.
nickname from Middle English wodi or some other derivative of Middle English wode ‘frenzied, wild’ (Old English wōd), perhaps formed on the analogy of, for example, Middle English mody (see Moody ). Compare Wood 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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