Woods, Joseph

WOODS, SHEPHERD

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Date: 7/30/2013 at 15:19:53

JOSEPH WOODS, farmer, Jackson Twp., Sec. 8; P.O. Anamosa; was born February 4, 1824, in Frederick Co., Va; in 1859, came to Ogle Co., Ill.; in 1864, came to Iowa; in the spring of 1865, he removed to his present farm, known as the Circle Hill Farm, consisting of 160 acres; all of his buildings are well protected with a large supply of fruit and forest trees of his own planting, consisting of maple, evergreens, pines and other varieties, in all about ten acres, all situated on a beautiful ridge or circle of land. He married Miss Rebecca Shepherd February 15,1849; she was born in 1823 in Frederick Co., Va.; have five children—Charles (now in Texas), Francis M., Clarence C. (now attending the Commercial College at Dubuque), Sarah and Eugene. Mr. W. organized the district school known as the Wagner District. Republican.

From History of Jones County, Iowa, 1879, page 614