History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 534.
[Bourbon County]  [Flat Rock Precinct]

THOMAS WOODFORD, farmer, P. O. Cane Ridge; was born in Virginia, Oct. 3,
1823, to Wm. and Maria (Archer) Woodford; she a daughter of Dr. Sam
Archer and a Miss Rotherk, all of whom were natives of Carolina County,
Va.  William Woodford came to Clark County, Ky., with his wife and six
children: Mary (deceased), John, Samuel, William, Lucy and Thomas, after
their arrival in Kentucky two others were born, Sally and Madison. All
reside in Bourbon County except Samuel, a prominent farmer of Clark
County, and Madison, a prominent physician of Harrison.  The two daughters
were married to cousins, William T. and William Buckner.  The father of
our subject was a son of John T. and Mary (Tolliver) Woodford, who came to
Clark County, Ky., in the fall of 1819, where he engaged in agriculture
until his death.  The early Woodford ancestry were quite noted in military
affairs, the great-grandfather a General in the revolutionary was, and
the grandfather a Colonel in the war of 1812.  The subject of this sketch
received a poor education in the pioneer schools of the day.  At the
early age of 9 years he was left an orphan by the death of his father;
he remained at home until sixteen years of age, when he began working
by the month and year, continuing in that capacity until the year 1855,
when he rented a farm; living as a renter until 1861, when he purchased a
300 acre tract, to which he has added, being now in possession of several
hundred acres of excellent blue grass land, well stocked, which make him a
handsome fortune.  He is an example of industry and frugality, starting out
in life a poor boy, but with a determined effort to succeed, he has gained
a position among the wealthiest and most prominent agriculturists and
stock-raisers of the county; but without a "better half" as a sharer of
this wealth, "joys and sorrows" having always lived a bachelor life.

Woodford Archer Rotherk Tolliver Buckner
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Clark-KY Madison-KY Caroline-VA

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