This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: WOODMANCY Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.woodmansee/233/mb.ashx Message Board Post: "Republican Compiler,"Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, vol. XIV, no 19, Tues 17 Jan 1832, p. 2, cols. 2-3: "A woman and her child were frozen to death in Fayette county, Penn. on Christmas night. The woman's name was Woodmancy --- she had gone to a neighbor's house, distant about a mile from her own, to spend the Christmas, and started homeward about sundown; a snow storm coming up she missed her path, and wandered through the woods. They were both found frozen to death on Monday morning. How the wretched woman must have clung to her unconscious child, as she felt the chill of death stealing over her!"