Macon County AlArchives Biographies.....Woodward, Thomas S. 1790 - 
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Author: Alabama:  Her History, Resources, War Record, and Public Men From 1540 to 1872, by Willis Brewer, page 339

Thomas S. Woodward, who first settled on the ridge on which Tuskegee is built, 
was a famous character in this portion of the State.  He was born in Elbert 
county, Georgia, and was reared on the frontier and among the Indians.  He was 
in this country as early as 1810, and was an officer in the Florida war of 1817-
1818.  He was a brigadier general of militia, and as such went to the 
Chattahoochee to meet Gen. LaFayette, whom he accompanied to Cahaba.  He 
removed to Arkansas in 1841, and from there to Winn Parish, Louisiana, in 1853, 
and there died in 1861.  He wrote a small volume of reminiscences about the 
Indians, which attempts to confute many of the statements made by Pickett, 
Meek, Coxe, and others, which have been in part adopted in this volume.  He was 
an interesting man, tall and erect, and brusk in manner.  He was a cousin of 
Hon. Joseph A. Woodward of Talladega and of Rev. Wm. Woodward of Chocta, but 
had Indian blood in his veins.

Additional Comments:
According to the 1850 US Census, Camden, Ouachita Co., AR, Thomas was born in 
about 1790.  He was living with Sarah A, age 42, born in Georgia, John, age 22, 
Berrynice (Bernice?), age 19, Thomas, age 29, a lawyer, Mariah L., age 23, and 
Samuel Holcomb, age 38, a Blacksmith.  John Berrynice, and Thomas were all born 
in Alabama, Mariah L. was born in Georgia and Samuel Holcomb was born in 
Kentucky.

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