William Woods

1768 - 1828  (60 years)

• Name	William Woods
  Birth	1768	Tyrone County, IRE
  Gender	Male
  Death	29 Mar 1828	West Salem, Mercer, PA
  Burial		Bigler Cemetery, Hempfield, PA
  Person ID	I418	Family Tree | 12 Generation Ancestor Chart
  Last Modified	6 Apr 2020

  
  

  Father	Alexander Woods,   b. 1738, Londonderry, Tyrone, IRE d. Omagh, Tyrone, IRE
  Mother	Jane Wilson,   b. 1745, Northern Ireland
  Family ID	F1138	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary “Mollie” Laird,   b. 1761, Ireland d. 26 May 1853, West Salem, Mercer, PA (Age 92 years)  [1, 2]
  Marriage	1791	Westmoreland Co., PA
  Children	+ 1. Jane Woods,   b. 1790, Ireland d. 1 Oct 1854, Pymatuning, Mercer, PA (Age 64 years) + 2. Alexander Woods,   b. 1795, Pennsylvania d. 1840, Mercer Co., PA (Age 45 years) + 3. Thomas Woods,   b. Feb 1797, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania d. 20 Jun 1863, Delaware, Mercer, PA (Age ~ 66 years)   4. Rebecca Woods,   b. 1798, Pennsylvania + 5. William W Woods,   b. 15 Feb 1800, West Salem, Mercer, PA d. 27 Jun 1892, Nodaway, Page, IA (Age 92 years) + 6. Mary Woods,   b. Abt 1802, West Salem, Mercer, PA d. 1866, College Springs, IA (Age ~ 64 years) + 7. John W Woods,   b. 1804, West Salem, Mercer, PA d. 17 Mar 1869, West Salem, Mercer, PA (Age 65 years) + 8. Elizabeth “Betsy” Woods,   b. 16 Mar 1806, West Salem, Mercer, PA d. 2 Jun 1846, West Salem, Mercer, PA (Age 40 years)
  Family ID	F68	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Headstones

  William Woods Gravestone site In / Memory of / William Woods / Who was born / 1768 & Died 1828 Mercer County Cemeter Inscription also notes a second stone Row 17, Stone 2 (not found) WILLIAM WOODS / D; MAR. 28, 1827 / Age 64y Plot: Row 17, Stone 4

  
  

• Notes

  From "History of Mercer County, Its Past and Present", 1888 (archive.org) THE WOODS FAMILY were among the earliest settlers of West Salem Township. William and Mollie (Laird) Woods, natives of Ireland, immigrated to Philadelphia and thence to Westmoreland County, Penn., about 1792. In 1797 William took up the tract of land in West Salem whereon his grandson, Willis O. Woods, now lives, upon which he settled permenently the following year. Four children were born ere the removal of the family to the county, viz: Jane, Alexander, Thomas and Rebecca. William, now a resident of Page County, Iowa, was the first born in their new cabin home, his birth occuring in January, 1800. Mary, John W. and Betsy were born subsequently. From "The History of the Woods Family, with a genealogy of Alexander Woods" by Roy Cleo Woods, 1936 Frances M. Woods of Washington, D.C., in 1897 sent papers to Mr. and Mrs. James B. Secrist, West Newton, Pa., in which she said that her line was descended from James Woods, son of Sir John Woods. Sir John disinherited this son James because he married Deborah M'Lellan, a daughter of the gatekeeper. In Pennsylvania, as late as 1829, lived a James Woods who was of this line. He was brother of the father of Alexander Woods, 1768-1848. For sake of convenience we will call this father Alexander, 1st generation. Besides Alexander and James of this 1st generation were two sisters. One married and had son, James Leard, also called Laird. The other sister married and had a son, John Donnel....Undoubtedly all of Alexander's (1st) children were born in Tyrone County, Ireland. They were Alexander, James, John, William, Thomas, Robert, Isabella, and a daughter who married a man named Shannon....William 2nd (Alexander 1st) lived in Shenango, Mercer County, Pennsylvania. He was married and had several children, three of whom apparently died at or about the same time. In 1814 William visited his brother Alexander in Ohio. He went to see if that country pleased him better than did Pennsylvania but it did not. William died March 29, 1828, leaving his family "in good circumstances."

  
  

• Sources

  [S7] United States Federal Census 1850, Roll: 796 Page: 415. [S129] Nancy Sadler, Transcriber, Mercer County Cemetery Index, (Mercer County Genealogical Society), Vol MC 10 pg 9 for William and Mary Woods.