Dooly-Bibb County GaArchives Biographies.....Woodward, Lucius Lamar 1879 - living in 1913
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Author: William Harden
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   LUCIUS LAMAR WOODWARD, attorney-at-law of Vienna, Georgia, has been active in
the practice of his profession in the town of his birth since he was admitted to
the bar in 1897. He was born there on May 5, 1879, and is the son of Judge John
Hartwell and Nancy B. (McCormack) Woodward, natives of South Carolina and
Georgia, respectively.

   Judge Woodward, for such he came to be in later life, was born in Sumpters
district, South Carolina (now Sumpter county) on January 16, 1831. He is the son
of Stephen and Jane (Barnett) Woodward, natives of South Carolina, and when he
was about one year old accompanied his parents to Missouri county, Alabama,
where they remained until he was about six years of age, when they moved to
Georgia. The family located seven miles south of Macon, Bibb county, Georgia,
where they made their home until 1863, at which time they settled in Dooly
county, in which district Judge Woodward has since made his home. As a young
man, he read law at the suggestion of Capt. Robert A. Smith, and took advantage
of the generosity of Captain Smith by making use of his office and books,
prosecuting his studies principally in the evenings. He was admitted to the bar
in January, 1873, but deferred the initiation of active practice for some little
time, owing to a prejudice peculiar to the South which held that a gentleman
might not engage in the practice of law or kindred professions and continue to
hold rank as a gentleman. It is worthy of mention that the natural good sense of
Judge Woodward came to his rescue after a time, and he settled down to the
practice of the profession for which he had so laboriously prepared himself. He
attained a degree of prominence in the polities of his state, and served in the
state legislature in 1871-72, and in 1880 was a member of the senate. He was
judge of the county court of Dooly county for two terms, and in all these
offices he acquitted himself as a gentleman and a scholar might be expected.
During the Civil war Judge Woodward was not inactive. In February, 1862, he,
with W. B. Busbee, organized the Whittle Guards, Company D, Tenth Georgia
Battalion, and were immediately mustered into the service. He was offered the
captaincy of the company, but declined and was unanimously elected first
lieutenant. His health failed to such an extent that in August of that year he
was compelled to resign. In July of 1863 his wife died, and Mr. Woodward again
joined the army at Macon, where he was elected second lieutenant. He served two
months and was again compelled to resign owing to the impaired condition of his
health. Judge Woodward was thrice married. His first wife was Carrie Sheats,
daughter of Benjamin S. Sheats of Clarke county. She passed away on July 6,
1863, leaving one child, Stephen B., born October 21, 1862, who lived to reach
the age of twenty years, when he died on November 27, 1882. The second marriage
of Judge Woodward occurred on July 18, 1865, when he married Miss Mamie
McCormack of Hawkinsville, Georgia. Nine children were born of this union. They
were: John M., a merchant of Hawkinsville, Georgia; William Thomas, who died at
the age of eighteen months; James Madison, a farmer near Vienna; David M.,
expert accountant of Tampa, Florida; Charles Cannon, editor of the Daily Tampa
Times of Tampa, Florida; Mary Jane, the wife of Charles H. Turton of Vienna;
Lucius Lamar, practicing law in Vienna; Carrie Sheats, the wife of Charles Gurr
of Vienna; Emma B., who shares her father's home. The second wife of Judge
Woodward died on December 17, 1895, and in the following year he contracted a
third marriage, when Emma Peacock, the daughter of John Peacock of Houston
county, became his wife. She passed away on August 26, 1901.

   Lucius Lamar Woodward was educated in the high school of Vienna after which
he read law in the offices of his father, Judge Woodward, and Senator Crum. He
was admitted to the bar on September 17, 1897, and took up the practice of law
in Vienna almost immediately. He has gained a goodly clientele in the years of
his labors and is highly regarded among the legal fraternity and among all those
who have had occasion to look to him for legal aid or advice. His standing in
the community is of a high order, and his circle of friends is unlimited, his
long acquaintance in and about Vienna having won to him hosts of life-long
friends. Mr. Woodward is a member of the Masonic fraternity, his affiliation
being with the Shriners of Savannah, and he is a Baptist in his religious faith,
while his wife is of the Methodist persuasion.

   Mr. Woodward was married on October 21, 1909, to Miss Louie Fenn, the
daughter of H. R. and Elizabeth (Collier) Fenn, natives of Dooly county. Two
children have been born to them: Elizabeth Barmelia, , and an infant son, Lamar
Fenn.


Additional Comments:
From:

A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA
BY
WILLIAM HARDEN

VOLUME II
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1913

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