Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, Kniffin 2nd ed., 1885
Livingston Co.

J.D. WOODMANSEE was born in Monmouth County, N.J., Oct. 13, 1816.  His
father, John Woodmansee, was a native of New Jersey, also, and by
occupation a shoemaker and farmer, which vocations he carried on until his
death.  Subject's paternal grandfather was a native of England, and during
the war of the Revolution served as surgeon in the British army.  At the
close of the war he located in New Jersey, where he married and reared a
family.  The maternal ancestors of subject, the Marks family, came from
Germany shortly after the struggle for Independence, and located in one 
of the eastern States.  Catherina (Marks) Woodmansee, wife of John
Woodmansee, and mother of subject, was born in New Jersey, and died in
1880 at an advanced age.  J.D. Woodmansee is the eldest of a family of
six children.  After receiving a common school education in his native
town, he learned the shoemaker trade with his father, at which he worked
at different places in his native State for a period of eight years, when
he came West and located at Rome, Ind., where he did a good business for
seventeen years.  He next engaged in merchandising at Rome, where he
carried on a successful trade for a period of seven years.  In 1856 he 
came to Livingston County, Ky., locating at the mouth of Bayou Creek, on
the Ohio River, where he carried on merchandising, selling goods from a 
large boat for one year, at the end of which time he moved into the 
village and erected a large business house, which he has since occupied.
He carries on a good business, and has a stock representing a capital
of about $4,000.  Mr. Woodmansee has been twice married - the first time
in October, 1841, to Miss Mary Whitehead, daughter of Isaac Whitehead, of
Rome, Ind., by whom he had five children, as follows: Infant (deceased),
Otho (deceased), Harriet, Julius and Mary E.  Mrs. Woodmansee died in
October, 1873, at the age of fifty-two years.  In the year 1879 Mr.
Woodmansee married Mrs. C.E. Hodge, daughter of Mr. Doneky, of Smithland.
Mr. Woodmansee has never aspired to political perferment, but is a firm
supporter of the Democratic party.  His wife is a member of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church.

Woodmansee Marks Whitehead Hodge Doneky
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Monmouth-NJ England Germany IN

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