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    1. [TNHENDER] Wagon train from Tenn to Ark
    2. This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Woods,Derryberry,Hayes Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AgB.2ACE/160 Message Board Post: I would like to know if anyone else can tell me about a wagon train that left Henderson County Tennessee in 1875 to go to Arkansas. Mr. Guy Derryberry was very nice to mention it in his letter to me last week. I have no access to Henderson county records so can't check on the marriage of an H. C. Woods to a Caroline Britt? I remember seeing on a census -I believe it was the 1880 census Caroline Britt with a son William Pinkney Britt and a son H.C. Woods. The H. C. Woods is my husbands great-grandfather. Caroline and the children later moved to Stone County Arkansas, where Caroline married a Derryberry. I was told that she either left the father of H.C. Woods or divorced him and went back to her Britt name, and that is why she was listed on the census in 1880 as a Britt. Mr. Derryberry believes that the H.C. Woods that is buried in Bible Grove cemetery may be my H.C. Woods. The name is believed to actually be Henry Clay Woods. One bible reference has it as Henry (Newt) Woods.! But the Henry name and the Clay name have been passed down in the family.He later married an Eliza E 1861-1935. If I knew if they were married after 1874 then it could definately be a possibility. Caroline was not married to the Derryberry very long either. She then married a William Bangs. All of this has made it very hard for me to track. I am desparately seeking someone with access to the old marriage records to find a records of this marriage so I know if I have the right line. My husband passed away in November. I would love to get that side of the family done for my son. I truly believe after reading the letter I received from Mr. Derryberry that I have the right Woods family. He mentioned that there were several Woods, Derryberry's, Manesses and Hayes on the wagon train. My husbands granmother on his maternal side was a Hayes. Anyone knowing any old stories on this wagon train or about this Woods family please contact me at awoods@cox-internet.com. Thank You.

    01/19/2003 01:17:14