James Lunsford Woody

Brief Life History of James Lunsford

When James Lunsford Woody was born on 7 April 1874, in Union, Georgia, United States, his father, Tobias Woody, was 69 and his mother, Luraney Lunsford, was 28. He married Vida Ola Roach in 1910, in Franklin, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in District 1420, Franklin, Georgia, United States for about 40 years and Franklin Township, Hunterdon, New Jersey, United States in 1962. He died on 25 January 1962, in Franklin, Georgia, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Zidon Baptist Church Cemetery, Sandy Cross, Franklin, Georgia, United States.

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Family Time Line

James Lunsford Woody
1874–1962
Vida Ola Roach
1890–1963
Marriage: 1910
Jesse Benton Woody
1911–1970
Hannah Lou Woody
1916–1998
Quentin F Woody
1919–1960
Dorothy Dix Woody
1923–2012
William Henry Woody
1926–1986

Sources (15)

  • James Woody, "United States 1950 Census"
  • James Woody, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
  • James Woody, "Georgia, Death Index, 1933-1998"

World Events (8)

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.

1893 · The Last Public Hanging in Georgia

The last public hanging in Georgia was on September 28, 1893. The General Assembly prohibited public executions in December 1893. Prior to this law, Georgians commonly traveled to witness scheduled public executions.

1898 · War with the Spanish

After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.

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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