Schley-Marion County GaArchives Biographies.....James F. Woods  September 7 1840 - 
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Author: "Biographical Souvenir of the States of Georgia & Florida"

This bio was abstracted from "Biographical Souvenir of the States of Georgia &  
Florida," reproduced from an 1889 edition in the private collection of the  
publisher, Easley, South Carolina.  (Note:  This is a non-cpoyrighted  
publication.) 
 
James F. Woods was born in Lancaster District, S.C., Septemver 7, 1840.  His  
father William Woods, was born in the same state and district in 1800.  He  
removed to Georgia in 1841 and settled in what is now Schley County, but soon  
afterward removed to Marion County, where he lived until 1859, when he moved to  
Barbour County, Ala., where he has resided since and followed farming.  He is a  
man of good moral charater and has been for many years a member of the  
Presbyterian Church.  His wife Nancy (Huey) Woods was born in South Carolina,  
and bore him ten children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the eighth. 
 
James F. Woods was brought up on the farm and educated in the common schools.   
In 1859 he removed from Marion County to Schley County, where he remained until  
the outbreak of the war, when he joined the Confederate army as a private in  
company G of the Fifth Georgia regiment, and served until the close of the  
war.  He then,in 1865, removed to Alabama, where he lived until 1869, when he  
returned to Schley County, Ga., where he has resided since.  In 1885 he was  
elected sheriff of his county and is the present incumbent of the office.  He  
is a wellto-do farmer and devotes a great deal of his time to agricultural  
pursuits. 
 
January 6, 1866, he was married to Margaret Herrod of Barbour County, Ala., and  
to this union have been born four children, viz:  Johnnie, Charley, Sarah and  
Edgar.  Mrs. Margaret Woods died in April 1876, and in December of the same  
year Mr. Woods was married to Julia Wommack, of Schley County, and to this  
union have been born four children, Viz.:  Mary E., Meander J., Louella and  
William R. 
 
Mr. Woods is an F. and A.M., and a member of the Presbyterian Church.  In  
politics he is a Democrat. 
 


Additional Comments:
James F. Woods is mentioned frequently in the Schley Newspapers of the early  
1900's.  

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