Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 5th ed., 1887,
Jessamine Co.

WILLIAM GARRETT WOODS was born May 9, 1826, and is the eldest son of
Archibald and Polly (Garrett) Woods, natives of Harrodsburg, Ky. (born in
the fort), and Woodford County, Ky.  Thomas Woods, William G.'s grandfather
was a native of Botetourt County, Va., born in 1754.  In 1776 or 1778 he
came to Kentucky with the "McAfee Men" and located on the farm now owned
by William G., and built one of the first shingle-roofed houses in this
county.  He was in the Revolutionary war, and died in 1841.  Archibald
Woods was in the war of 1812, and was a farmer; he was born in 1786 and
died in 1867.  Mrs. Mary (Garrett) Woods died in 1866.  William Garrett
Woods has been a farmer all his life in his native county of Jessamine.  He
was married February, 1853, to Mary J. Wilmore, a daughter of Jacob Wilmore
(deceased), of Jessamine County.  His only child, Archibald G. Woods, in
the drug business at Nicholasville, was born in 1856.  Mrs. Mary J. Woods
died in 1858, and April 11, 1861, Mr. Woods married Mary E. Stewart of
Fayette County, Ky., daughter of Rev. Charles Stewart, a deceased
Presbyterian minister, and a native of Washington County, Penn.  He was
born in 1800 and died in 1852.  Mrs. Wood's mother, Mary Frazer, was a
native of Fayette County. Ky.  Mr. Woods was a graduate of Jefferson
College, Cannonsburg, Penn, 1949; is a director of the Nicholasville and
Jessamine Pike Company, and treasurer of the Lexington and Perryville
Turnpike Company.  He is the owner of 327 acres in Keene District, and
for years has been a member of the Presbyterian Church at Nicholasville.
Arch G. Woods, son of William Garrett Woods, was born October 28, 1856.
He entered Central University at Richmond, in 1874, and graduated in
1878; became proprietor and editor of the Jessamine Journal, conducting
it from 1879 to 1882, and was superseded by Charles Deering.  He then
engaged in buying and selling tobacco from 1883 to 1884, and in 1885 he
engaged in the drug business.  In October, 1886, he married Miss Kate A.
Hemphill, daughter of Charles Hemphill of Jessamine County.

Woods Garrett Stewart Frazer Deering Hemphill Wilmore
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Woodford-KY Harrodsburg-Mercer-KY Fayette-KY Washington-PA Botetourt-VA

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