In a message dated 7/7/00 7:43:58 AM Central Daylight Time, FrankHarrison@prodigy.net writes: > id you Truelove married a Brooks girl in Sumter Country, AL. Also my > great grandmother was a Woodward/Woodard that married James Ivy Beeman in > Newton Co., MS. Her father was John Woodard. Frank, I don't have much to go on with the Woodward line. My ggrandmother was Alice F. (Fayetta) Woodward b. 12/18/1865 or 12/18/1863 d. 5/4/1928 who married Taylor Lomax Estes 2/9/1882 in Sumter County. My aunt remembers that Alice's father was killed in the Civil War before she was born or shortly after. Alice's mother remarried to a Griffith and had 2 more sons, Oliver & Walter. She also remembers her grandmother saying that we had 'Hubbard' cousins. Based on this info I have found an Eliza Hubbard m. Soloman Woodward 1/25/1851 in Marengo County. I haven't found anything in regards to Solomon having fought in the Civil War nor do I find anything later than the 1851 marriage. Eliza may have been the daughter of Wiley Hubbard & Finity found in the 1850 Marengo County census with daughter Eliza age 18. >From the 1870 Sumter County Census I have: Phillip Griffith age 51 Born SC Eliza Griffith age 35 Born AL Lorring? Griffith age 12 Born AL Oliver Griffith age age 1 Born AL John Woodward age 15 Born AL Alice Woodward age 5 Born AL >From Alabama Records, Marengo County, Volume 186: Eliza Griffith d, June 1887 age 51 To muddy the water even further, on Alice's death certificate her father's last name is shown as Woodard. Anita