Jackie, I sent the last post prematurely without completely reading the dates. If he was there in 1867, my CW theory doesn't hold up. Sorry for the inconvenience. I have seen those Woodard names somehwere in my own 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. >