BIO: Richey Woods, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.

                               CHAPTER LX.

                       WEST PENNSBOROUGH TOWNSHIP.

588  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

  RICHEY WOODS, the first of this name to locate in this neighborhood, 
came from Scotland, more than a century ago, and took up the lands on 
which the family still resides.  Richey Woods remained a bachelor; his 
nephew, Nathan Woods, married Jean Means and reared five children:  
Nathan J. Ramsey, Richard C., Joseph McCord, Martha J. and Margaret R.  
Of these Nathan J. Ramsey married Charlotte H., daughter of Jonathan 
and Eliza Holmes, of this county, and granddaughter of Commodore 
Richard O'Brien, a man, the merits of whose public services were 
acknowledged by four successive Presidents.  He died February 16, 18_4.  
Nathan J. Ramsey Woods engaged in teaching school at Huntingdon, Penn., 
but after his marriage came to the ancestral home of his father and 
engaged in farming.  On the manor farm have been four generations of 
the Woods, the last being the children of our subject:  Nathan, Holmes, 
Elizabeth, Jennie, James, O'Brien and Lottie, of whom James, O'Brien 
and Lottie survive.  Nathan J. Ramsey Woods was an ardent Democrat, a 
Presbyterian by faith, and a practical business man.  He died January 
28, 1866.  The massive stone structure in which the family reside was 
completed in 1812, and in all possibility will remain a landmark and as 
a monument to uncle Richey for a century to come.