Franklin County KyArchives Biographies.....Woodson, David Meade August 14, 1848 - May 2, 1910
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Author: Henry Morton Woodson

From "The Woodsons and Their Connections"

Born August 14, 1848 at Big Eddy, near Frankfort, Franklin county, Kentucky, 
was educated at the Kentucky Military Institute, and spent almost his entire 
life in Frankfort.  He was an expert civil engineer, served several terms as 
city engineer of Frankfort, and county surveyor of Franklin County.  He made a 
plat of the statehouse grounds that wsa used in all the famous trials of Caleb 
Powers and Howard for the murder of Governor Goebel.  He gave expert testimony 
in all those trials as to angles, distances and such things as only a man of 
his knowledge and skill could give.  During the first term of President 
Cleveland, he held a responsible government position as a surveyor of public 
lands in Washington and other  orthwestern states.  He was conspicuous for his 
honesty and integrity.  He was twice married;  first, on November 29, 1871 to 
Nannie Adams who was born in 1848, in Saline County, MO, and died in Frankfort, 
KY, April, 9, 1900.  He was married, second, to Mildred___________.

He was a democrat, and attended the Christian Church of whch he was a faithful 
member.  In 1908 he went west and settled at Grant's Pass, Oregon, and engaged 
in fruit growing. A deed from 7/3/1908 located at the Josephine County Clerk's 
Office shows that David M. Woodson bought a parcel of land from a John Burt in 
1908.  About the middle of April, 1910, he was in his vineyard, planting some 
grape vines, when he suddenly became very ill and died on May 2, 1910.


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