Biography of C W Woodall, Clay Co, AR

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The Goodspeed Biographical and Historical Memoirs of N. E. Ark.
Biographical Information.

C. W. Woodall. Among the planters and stock dealers of Kilgore Township, Clay
County, Ark., who have attained the highest round in the ladder of success, and
are counted among its worthy and honored citizens, may be mentioned Mr. Woodall,
who was born in Marshall County, of the "Blaegrass State," in 1845, being the
second of eleven children born to the marriage of Roland Woodall and Nancy
Drennon, natives, respectively, of North Carolina and Springfield, Ill. The
father was taken to Kentucky by his parents when three years of age, and was
there reared and educated, and spent his days. He was an extensive planter, and
owned a large farm of 500 acres, successfully managing it until his death, which
occurred in 1864, and throughout life he was an active politician. His estimable
wife survived him many years and died in 1886, at the age of sixty-nine years.
Her father was one of the first settlers of Marshall County, Ky., and was the
first one buried in the family cemetery in that county. C. W. Woodall, whose
name heads this sketch, was reared on his father's plantation and educated in
the schools of his native State, but in 1863 left school, and August 29 of that
year went to Paducah, Ky., where he enlisted in Company A. Fifteenth Kentucky
Cavalry, for three years, and afterward participated in the battles of Spring
Creek, Murfreesboro, and several skirmishes, serving as orderly for Maj. W. W.
Waller. He served until the close of the war, and after receiving his discharge
at Paducah, Ky., returned home and engaged in farming, and was married here on
the 29th of August, 1867, to C. A. Brazell, a native of Kentucky, by whom he is
the father of five children: Mary A., wife of J. Dudgeon; Sarah Elizabeth, Ida
Belle, Amy and Nora Arlena. After his marriage Mr. Woodall purchased a
plantation in Kentucky, on which he resided until 1871, when he came to Clay
County, Ark., and settled on the plantation which he now occupies. November 12,
1872, he bought 120 acres of raw land, which he has since improved and added to
until he now has 467 acres in the home plantation, and besides this property has
forty-one and a half acres at Corning, and his old farm in Kentucky, besides
selling 300 acres. On an average he devotes 100 acres to cotton raising and
about the same to corn, and the greater portion of the remainder of his land is
given to stock, of which he is the heaviest buyer as well as raiser in Clay
County. He stall-feeds about sixty head of cattle each year and from fifty to
seventy-five hogs, besides what he buys and ships. His property is nicely
improved by a good house and barns and a fine apple and peach orchard. He has
always taken great interest in enterprises tending to benefit the county, and
has given much attention to school matters and to the church. He is an admirer
of the Jeffersonian system and supports the Democratic party, and has served on
the United States grand jury two terms, and the county grand jury nearly every
year. Socially he belongs to Orient Lodge No. 297, at Corning, Ark.; I. O. O. F.
Lodge No. 78, and he and wife belong to the Eastern Star Lodge at Reno. Mrs.
Woodall's parents, Pleasant and Mary Jane (Hunt) Brazell, were born in North
Carolina and Virginia, respectively, but removed with their parents to Kentucky
at a very early day, where they were reared, married, and spent the remainder of
their days.