James Andrew Woods

Brief Life History of James Andrew

When James Andrew Woods was born on 11 July 1859, in Parowan, Iron, Utah, United States, his father, James Tickner Woods, was 28 and his mother, Annie Chandler, was 22. He married Lovina Jane Brimhall on 30 December 1882, in Apache, Arizona, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Arizona, United States in 1918 and Graham, Arizona, United States in 1920. He died on 21 December 1934, in Thatcher, Graham, Arizona, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Thatcher Cemetery, Thatcher, Graham, Arizona, United States.

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Family Time Line

James Andrew Woods
1859–1934
Lovina Jane Brimhall
1866–1942
Marriage: 30 December 1882
James Andrew Woods Jr
1883–1960
Annie Lovina Woods
1886–1957
Pearl Woods
1888–1984
Maude Woods
1890–1987
Noah Ellis Woods
1891–1946
Cornelia Woods
1893–1978
Daphne Ellen Woods
1894–1901
Bailey Ray Woods Sr
1896–1967
Drucilla Woods
1899–1987
George Tennyson Woods
1902–1973
Beatrice Woods
1904–1973
Royal Grant Woods
1907–1986

Sources (53)

  • James A Woods, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Legacy NFS Source: James Andrew Woods - birth: 11 July 1859; Parowan, Iron, Utah, United States
  • James Andrew Woods, "Arizona, County Marriages, 1871-1964"

World Events (8)

1861

Moratorium on foreign debt payments. Tripartite agreement for intervention signed by Britain, France, and Spain.

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1880

United States railroad companies receive favorable concessions. Railroad boom.

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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Stories Told By James Andrew Woods to His Children: Written by George Tennyson Woods

My Father was an early pioneer to the Territory of Arizona, having arrived in 1876, and had many exciting experiences while grubbing a livelihood for his family from a new, hostile, rattlesnake …

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