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Woodford, John Howe (b. 1796)
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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 500 and 503

John Howe Woodford, son of William and Hannah (Moss) Woodford, was
born in Rockingham County, Virginia, in 1796, and when eight years
old, emigrated with his father's family to what is now Barbour
County. He was the oldest child, and very early in life he began to
trade in cattle, buying calves, cutting brouse in the woods to
winter them, supplementing it with a little corn, ranging them in
the woods the next summer, until they were three or four years old,
then selling them at a very low price, often from four to seven
dollars per head. He hired himself for wages, among others to Jacob
Lawrence, near Buckhannon, and to Samuel Wilson, on Sand Fork, of
the West Fork, in Lewis County. He cleared heavily timbered land
for Wilson at four dollars an acre, and made rails at twenty-five
cents a hundred. But he did not always find it necessary to work
for other people, and subsequently he became one of the largest
landowners in Barbour County. He was for many years a magistrate,
and was Judge of the county court part of the time, and was two
terms Sheriff of the county. He was an old time Whig up to the
close of the Civil War, and after that time he voted with the
Democrats. He married Nancy Minear, daughter of Adam Minear. Nancy
Minear was born in 1801, on the Valley River, near the Minear Ford,
in Barbour County, near the Taylor line. The house in which she was
born is still standing (1899.) Her grandfather, John Minear, was
the pioneer settler of St. George, in Tucker County, and was killed
by Indians in Barbour County in 1781. The children of John Howe
Woodford numbered fourteen, as follows. Isaac, William, Adam M.,
John Harvey, Asa Wesley, James R., DeWitt Clinton, Phoebe, Mary,
Emily, Elizabeth, Hannah, Cyntha, Phrena. All these children
reached the age of maturity, and seven of them are yet living
(1899.)

The children of George, son of William Woodford, were, Frank,
William, John, Granville and Elmira.

The children of William, son of William Woodford, were, George,
Robert, Emmett, Jackson, John Wesley, Mary Ann, Elizabeth and
Josephine.

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