Woods, George W.

Born: 1832-11-14 Morgan County, Illinois

Died: 1902-02-15 Saint Louis, Missouri

Born in Franklin in Morgan County, Illinois, George W. Woods was a farmer, merchant, Republican, and member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Reared on the family farm in Morgan County, he attended McKendree College before moving to Carlinville, Illinois around 1856. In November 1856, he married Hannah Jeanette Kerr. The couple eventually had four children together. Woods operated as a merchant in Carlinville for roughly twenty years. In June 1858, the Republicans of Macoupin County elected him president of the county’s Republican Central Committee. In 1860, his personal estate was valued at $4,000.

A. T. Andreas, History of the State of Nebraska (Chicago: Western Historical, 1882), 5:1500; U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Morgan County, IL, 335; Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, Morgan County, 8 November 1856, Illinois State Archives, Springfield, IL; The Alton Weekly Courier (IL), 24 June 1858, 2:1; U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), Macoupin County, IL, 32; The York Daily Times (NE), 19 February 1902, 3:2; Gravestone, Greenwood Cemetery, York, NE.