This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Woodrum, Shaw, Newman, Defenbaugh, Freeman, Rude Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3BC.2ACE/1427.1.1 Message Board Post: Stefanie, yes, this is defiinitely a connection and I would love to have a copy of the picture. I have descendants of John L. Woodrum and a lot of info you probably are interested in and visa versa, as I am certainly interested in more info on Newman family. Yes, Mary Richardson Newman is my grandmother's step mother also. My grandmother was the 1st child of John Lawrence Woodrum and Elizabeth Sowers. They had 6 children, Lucinda Jane (my grandmother), Christopher Clayton, Dewitt Clinton, Mary Arizona "Zona", Margaret Hanna "Cute", and Elizabeth "Lizzie" May. Elizabeth Sowers Woodrum died in 1890 and John Lawrence Woodrum married Mary Richardson Newman in 1892. John and Mary also had one child, a daughter, named Mary b. in 1920 in Spokane, WA. Please e-mail me at joanmft@aol.com so we can share info. Looking forward to hearing from you. JoAn