Illinois:  History of Cass County, Illinois, ed. William 
Henry Perrin. O. L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers, 
Chicago, 1882. Cass County.

CORNELIUS C. WOODWARD, farmer; P.O. Virginia; was born in 
Virginia, this county, Sept. 9, 1844, son of Amos and Mary 
(McHenry) Woodward. Amos Woodward, who was a blacksmith by 
trade, was born in Pennsylvania in 1814, and died Jan. 15, 
1855; his widow, who is still living, is a native of 
Virginia, born July 18, 1817; Cornelius is the eldest of 
their family of six children, of whom three are deceased. 
He received his education in the schools of Virginia, this 
county, and began farming, in which occupation he is still 
engaged. He enlisted in the Fifty-Ninth Illinois Regiment, 
and served in the last year of the late war under Gen. 
Thomas. Mr. Woodward is a Democrat, and has filled the 
office of School Director.

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