BOONE COUNTY KENTUCKY – ELBERT LEE WOODWARD OBITUARY

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Elbert Lee Woodward obituary

In the possession of Michele Holland MillS

Transcribed 5 January 2004
By Michele Holland Mills
mhmills@email.com

Elbert Lee Woodward was the son of James Warren Woodward (1843-1927) 
and Henrietta Dianah Glacken (1848-1876).  The family lived in Boone
County, Kentucky in 1860, Macon County, Illinois in 1870, and Kenton
County, Kentucky in 1880.  Elbert's mother, Henrietta, died in 1876.
In 1881 the family moved to Milam County, Texas, where Elbert married
Florilda "Flora" Nabours January 8, 1892, when Elbert was 26 years old.
Elbert and Flora had eight children: William Lee, Alva Cone, Myrl 
(died in infancy), Doyle Jerry "Jay", Gyda, Curtis Ruel, an unnamed 
child who died at birth, and Gladys.  The family moved to Coleman 
County, Texas in August of 1910.  According to two of the children, 
William Lee and Gyda, they moved by covered wagon and it took two 
weeks to travel the 140 miles from Cameron in Milam County to Santa 
Anna in Coleman County.  Their furniture and cattle were shipped by 
rail.  Elbert was a farmer and stockman until his death.  He built 
a home on their farm near Santa Anna in 1923, and he and his wife 
lived there until their deaths. Elbert and Flora are both buried in 
Santa Anna Cemetery, Santa Anna, Coleman County, Texas.


Elbert Lee Woodward Obituary

January 1940, Santa Anna [Texas] News

"E. L. Woodward
In the death of E. L. Woodward, which occurred Friday morning at his 
home four miles east of Santa Anna, Coleman County lost a prominent 
citizen.

Mr. Woodward was born Dec. 13, 1865, in Covington, Ky. When a very 
young man he came to Texas and took up residence at Cameron where, 
on January 8, 1893 he married Miss Flora Nabours. He brought his 
family to Santa Anna in 1910 and from that time until his death had 
been engaged in the stock farming.

Flowers, messages of sympathy, and words of praise attested to Mr. 
Woodward's fine character and high sense of honor.

Services were held at the Methodist church here at 10:30 Saturday 
morning, Jan. 6., Rev. H. C. Bowman officiating. Burial, with Hosch 
Funeral Directors in charge of arrangements, was in the Santa Anna 
cemetery.

Pall bearers were Will Holt, Howard Norris, John Taylor, Richard 
Traylor, Roger Hunter and Alpheus Boardman.

Flowers were in charge of Mrs. Carter Duggins, Mrs. Sammie Duggins, 
Miss Ouida Casey, Mrs. G. A. Shockley, Mrs. Pauline Holt and Miss 
Bettie Blue.

Surviving Mr. Woodward are his wife, four sons, Lee Woodward of Alva, 
Okla., A. C. Woodward, Lamesa, Curtis Woodward, Lamesa; and Doyle 
Woodward, Floydada; two daughters, Mrs. Edmond Morrow, Stanton; and 
Mrs. Eaf Day, Santa Anna; two ......" (rest of article is missing)