U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Woodford, John F. (died 1911) ------------------------------------------------------------------- The History of Barbour County, West Virginia, From its Earliest Exploration and Settlement to the Present Time by Hu Maxwell The Acme Publishing Company, Morgantown, W.Va., 1899 Pages 506-507 John F. Woodford, born five miles north of Phiiippi, son of Isaac C. and James E. (Huffman) Woodford, was married on Pleasant Creek, April 22, 1869, to Eliza E., daughter of Jesse and Elizabeth (Knotts) Cole. Children, Rosaltha, Joseph M., Marie Belle, Elizabeth, Isaac C., John W., and Jessie E. Mr. Woodford is a member of the M. E. Church, an Odd Fellow, a farmer, stockdealer, merchant and manager of a telephone company. He is one of the extensive land-owners of Barbour County. His home farm at Cherry Hill, one of the finest in the county, contains 367 acres. It was formerly the Henson L. Hoff property, and Thomas Hite lived there during the Civil War. The house is of brick, and was built nearly a century ago. The farm is underlaid with valuable viens of coal. Mr. Woodford owns 201 acres three miles south of Philippi, and 141 acres surrounding Elk City, and he owns a general store at that place. He has always taken a lead in agricultural matters, and claims to have been the first to introduce Polled Angus cattle into Barbour; also the first to introduce the Holstein-Friesian cattle. He also introduced the Clydesdale horses; and in 1870 he began the importation and use of commercial fertilizers into Barbour, claiming to be the first to use them. Mr. Woodford has been identified with the Woodford Telephone Company since in 1897, and has been the moving spirit in that enterprise, being president of the company, which has lines in five counties. His son, Joseph M. Woodford, born in 1871, began business at the age of eighteen as manager of his father's saw mill and timber interests. He is an Odd Fellow. After five years of profitable connection with saw mills, he turned his attention to buying and inspecting lumber for Eastern firms. In 1898 he moved his business headquarters to Elkins, and now is general manager of and the largest stockholder in the Woodford Telephone Company. Another son, Isaac C. Woodford, born 1878, graduated at Buckhannon in 1897, and immediately thereafter became a stockholder in the Woodford Telephone Company, and was chosen its secretary and electrician. He established a central office at Elkins. Another son, John W. Woodford, born 1881, was formerly treasurer of the telephone company, but early in 1899 he disposed of his interests to his brothers, and entered the West Virginia University as a student. ------------------------------------------------------------------- From Death Register, Barbour County, WV (Page 247, Line Numbered 15 FULL-NAME: J. F. Woodford DEATH-DATE: Feb. 16, 1911 at 63-years of age DEATH-PLACE: Philippi MARITAL-STATUS: Married OCCUPATION: Lumber Dealer CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Pneumonia (wife of J. F. Woodford) From Death Certificate, Barbour County, WV #3561 FULL-NAME: Eliza Ellen Woodford BIRTH-DATE: Jan 8, 1852 BIRTH-PLACE: Barbour County, WV DEATH-DATE: Mar 30, 1945 DEATH-PLACE: Philippi, Philippi District, Barbour County, WV MARITAL-STATUS: Widowed OCCUPATION: FATHER: Jesse M. Cole (born in Barbour) MOTHER: Elizabeth Knotts (born in Taylor) CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Heart failure / Senility INFORMANT: J. E. Woodford (of Philippi) BURIAL: Masonic There's a shared tombstone in the Masonic Cemetery, Barbour Co., WV Eliza Cole John F. Woodford Woodford Jan. 8, 1852 Apr. 27, 1848 Mar. 30, 1945 Febr. 16, 1911 ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Barbour County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/barbour/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------