Shelby County Texas Archives Biographies.....Woodyard, Joseph Tillman May 1843 - June 9, 1913
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James Woodyard woodyardjc@tds.net March 9, 2012, 2:04 pm

Author: James Woodyard

Joseph Tillman Woodyard was born in Morgan County, Ga. to James M. Woodyard 
and Martha Jackson. In 1851, he moved with his parents and siblings to Russell 
County. Ala. There, on June 1, 1861 he inlisted in Hardaway's (later Hurt's) 
Battery of artillery. By June 21, 1861, this unit was in Lynchburg, Va. and 
assigned to the Confederate Army. Woodyard, along with the remainder of the 
battery, surrendered at Appomatox April 9, 1865.
Sometime during the early 1870s he moved to Texas where he married Isabella 
Billingsley. This marriage apparently lasted only a short time and on May 8, 
1887 in Shelby County, Tex., he married Martha A. McKnew, born November 1847 
in Shelby County, Tex. It was her second marriage also. According to the 1910 
census they had no children. 
It is not at this time where either are buried.

Additional Comments:
Sources include Joseph's father's Alabama estate records, Confederate Army 
records of Alabama, both Joseph's and Martha's Confederate pension records in 
Texas, various census records.

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