Stephens County GaArchives Biographies.....Woodall, J. W. (Dr.) April 5, 1879 - 
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Source: The Toccoa Record, Toccoa, Stephens County, Georgia
Author: Unknown

The Toccoa Record, 11 Feb 1909, p. 1.  

Biographical Sketches


Dr. J. W. Woodall.  Born on a farm at Brownsville, Tenn., April 5, 1870.  
Spent his early years engaged in farm work and, when he was 20 years old, went 
to Macon, Ga., where he spent one year assisting a brother in a photograph 
gallery.

In 1891 he went to Bainbridge, Ga., where he engaged in electrical work for 
one year.  Not wishing to make an electrician, and having come to the 
conclusion that a profession would suit him best, he went to Lake City, Fla., 
where he began clerking in a drug store.  At the end of five years he went to 
Atlanta for a few months, receiving his diploma from the Atlanta College of 
Pharmacy in the spring of 1898.

Dr. Woodall married his first wife, who was Miss Ada Martin, of Atlanta, April 
29, 1897.

After receiving his diploma he first went to work in Macon, and in 1902, went 
to Hawkinsville, Ga., and took charge of a drug store in that city.  His first 
wife died Dec. 9, 1902.

Dr. Woodall was first known to Toccoans in the fall of 1904.  He came here and 
purchased the drug store of Brown & Mills, and has since conducted that 
business.

His second marriage occurred April 19, 1905, to Miss Alleutia Way, of 
Hawkinsville.  He is the father of three children, the eldest, Martin, who is 
ten years old, by his first wife, and two boys by his second wife.

He is a worker in the Baptist church, which he joined 17 years ago.  He is 
also a member of the Masonic Lodge, the Odd Fellows and the Red Men.

Dr. Woodall is one of those men who start themselves.  He had little education 
and 25 cents when he landed in Macon, to rub his shoulders against the world.  
He didn’t sit down and wait for somebody to help him along, but rolled up his 
sleeves and went to work.

He has turned that 25 cent piece thousands of times since his first business 
experience.  He has done something even greater than that; he has been 
successful by the count of friends.  You can always find him, and with his 
heart in the right place.  He is one of the most public spirited citizens in 
Toccoa and always gives his hearty co-operation to every movement for his 
city’s interest.


[Transcribed by June Coker McNew, January 2011.  To get a copy of the picture 
in this article, I photographed the microfilm machine screen, but the quality 
of the image on the screen was very poor.]


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