Yesterday's Tuckaways


Vol. 1 Issue 2, 1969








John Woodruff Ancestry





Copied from a book written by John Woodruff in Liverpool, Texas 1915.


He wrote it to send to all his old friends.  It was found in an old


trunk recently by a cousin of Mrs. Geather Fox.  Mrs. Fox sent this 


information to Mrs. Cheri L Davis Milliron, who sent it to us.





John Woodruff wrote:





My father, Hiram Patwiller Woodruff, b Dec. 10, 1825 - d April 12, 1861.





My grandfather, John Woodruff, b August 4, 1793 - d September 15, 1864.





My great grandfather, Joel Woodruff, b 1776 - d 1830.





My great great grandfather, Nathaniel Woodruff, b 1740 - d 1822.





My grandmother Woodruff was Francis Davis, b Oct 31, 1799 - d July 21, 1870.





Her brothers and sisters were:


John Davis, b July 16, 1796  


Elizabeth Tolbert Davis, b January 19, 1798  


Benjamin Davis, b April 10, 1801  


Thomas Davis, b January 13, 1803  


Thanie Davis, b December 22, 1804  


Nancy Davis, b June 6, 1805 (?)  


Sallie Davis, b February 6, 1807  


Lewis Davis, b September 30, 1809  


Pricilla Davis, b July 14, 1811  


Susie Davis, b June 24, 1814  





My father's brothers and sisters were:  


Nancy Elizabeth Tolbert Woodruff, Charles D., Sarah D., Benjamin B.,


Dixie D., and Willis W Woodruff.





My father Hiram P Woodruff and my mother, Lunicy Crabtree were married


February 22, 1851.





My brothers: James B and L. Y.  Our step-mother was Mary Wright. Our


half-sisters were Elizabeth Wills, Lenora Ann and Francis Patiller, all


dead.





My mother's brothers and sisters were: Jinice, York, Thomas, James,


Webber, Peggy and Polly.  Their father was Isaiah Crabtree.





Mrs. Milliron writes that Benjamin Davis m Rachie Ligon, Thomas Davis


m Elviria Fox, John Davis m/1 Sarah Metcalf, m/2 Sarah Hardwick