Wayne County IN Archives Biographies.....Woodard, Luke March 12, 1832 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/in/infiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Glapha Cox rcoxfam@earthlink.net January 3, 2006, 10:24 am Author: History of Wayne County, Indiana; New Garden Township p. 678 Luke Woodard, farmer and minister, Fountain City, Ind., was born in New Garden Township, Wayne Co., Ind., March 12, 1832, a son of Cader and Rachel (Outland) Woodard. His early life was passed in his native county, he being reared to the life of a farmer. He was educated in the Friends’ schools, at that day much above the average common school. April 14, 1853, he was married to Elvira Townsend. He remained on the old homestead, continuing the life of a farmer. Soon after his conversion he felt called to the ministry of the gospel, and was officially recognized as a minister by the church authorities in 1862. From that time his attention was mostly given to his ministerial work. Besides laboring in the churches near his home, he made several journeys to all the States where Friends' churches were located, including the New England, Southern, Middle and Eastern States. In many of these journeys his wife accompanied him. Many conversions were the result of their gospel labors. He resided with his family in Rochester, N.Y., in 1875, and for nearly two years, 1882-1884, in Toronto, Canada. In 1875 Mr. Woodard wrote and published a devotional work of nearly 400 pages, "The Morning Star." This found ready sale and soon passed through its second edition. While in Toronto he published "Gathered Fragments; or, Talks to Young People, Parents and Ministers," a book of nearly the same size as the first. Mr. and Mrs. Woodard have had four children---Leander J., born May 24, 1854; Mary Ellen, born Oct. 16, 1860; Alice, born July 14, 1866, and an infant, deceased. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/in/wayne/bios/woodard7gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/infiles/ File size: 2.2 Kb