Was William in the Civil War? My ancestor, George McLemore, ( from one of the other families that are not found on the 1870 census) enlisted in Colombus, MS because that was where some of the Clarke Co. men had already gone with this particular unit. It was Turners Battery- Lt.Artillary(Chickasawhay Desperadoes) MS. When the war was over, they were paroled to Citronelle. Maybe Woodard was in one of those units that was paroled there, and his wife went to be with him. Maybe he was injured and died there, and she just stayed. Good luck in your research. Jean-----Original Message----- From: Jackiefeld@aol.com <Jackiefeld@aol.com> To: MSCLARKE-L@rootsweb.com <MSCLARKE-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 12:05 PM Subject: Re: Deed of Trust in 1870 >Hi Marion, > >Thanks for your reply on my Deed of Trust question. I don't think there was >a family relationship with the Chapman man who was the trustee on the deed >but I think he may have been representing the merchant. I checked back on >the 1870 Clarke Co. MS census around Becky Woodard's dwelling (Rebecca A. >Woodward) and found no Chapman listed, so he doesn't appear to be a neighbor >of hers in Enterprise. Her brother, Samuel Loftin Williams, lived next door >to her at the time so I am surprised that he didn't file the Deed of Trust >for her. I am surprised that the County would allow a woman to file the deed >on her own name and it doesn't mention her husband's name at all. I don't >think she was a widow in 1870 because her last child was born in October of >1872, but you never know! > > She and her husband, William Woodard or Woodward, moved to MS about 1867 >from Clarke Co, AL where they were from. He registered to vote in Jasper >Co., MS in 1867, then Rebecca appears in 1870 in Enterprise with her >children, and filed the deed of trust. Her husband does not appear in the >1870 census either in MS or AL or LA or TX, although I understand from Bennie >White, that the 1870 Clarke Co. MS census was not complete. Rebecca Woodward >showed up in Citronelle, AL (Mobile Co., AL) in the 1880 census so I am not >sure when she left MS and moved back to AL. I have never found any more info >on William Woodard, no grave or death date. She may have been widowed or >perhaps divorced him but I don't know. Our aunt has his voters registration >dated 1867 which is the only document of his that survived. You would think >since that much folded piece of paper survived, that his family would have >known of his death and received his personal effects which would indicate a >death rather than divorce. His grandaughter (age 83) told me that she heard >that he was a gambler but she had no knowlege of what happened to him. I was >hoping that when Bennie got around to recording the Enterprise Cemetery, a >grave for him might be found! > >Any ideas for me? I think I need to check the divorce records to be sure she >did not divorce him but I don't know where they would be located for Clarke >Co., MS. Do you know? >Thanks, >Jackie Feldman >Sammamish, WA > > >==== MSCLARKE Mailing List ==== >Clarke Co., MS Records at Ben's Genealogy Corner: >http://www.netpathway.com/~bennie/clarke.html >MSGenWeb site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~msclarke/index.html > >============================== >Personalized Mailing Lists: never miss a connection again. >http://pml.rootsweb.com/ >Brought to you by RootsWeb.com. >