Monday, August 8th 1825
Ordered by the Court that Thomas Highlett oversee the road from James Roaneys to Red River in the room of Jacob F. Young and he together with the following __?__ towit Daniel Mulloy Ziza Moone, William M. Wilson, Jno Summerville Junr, Reuben [Gack?/Gach?], Adam [Biggs?], Daniel Smith, Dillon Liby, John E. McCallon, __?__ [Lines?/Jines?], James Kirby, Green Woodard
Book 8, p 147 Robertson Co, TN Court Minutes

(another transcription of the same record)
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~circuitcourtrecords/countycourt/book8.html
Robertson Co TN
County Court Minutes, Book 8
1825 - 1826
Aug 8, 1825 Monday
pg 147)
....... Ordered by the Court that Thomas HUGHLETT oversee the road from James RANEY's to Red
River in the room of Jacob F. YOUNG and he together with the following hands, to wit, ___ MULLOY, Ziza MOORE, William M. WILSON, Jno. SUMMERVILLE Junr., Reuben GOCH, Adam BIGGS, David SMITH, Dillon IRBY, John E. McCALLON, Thomas JONES, James KIRBY, Green WOODARD

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~circuitcourtrecords/countycourt/book9.html
Robertson Co TN
County Court Minutes, Book 9
1826 - 1830
May 13, 1828 Tuesday
Leroy __ Plaintiff vs Anthony FISHER for the benefit of Green WOODARD, Defendant - Certiorari This day came the parties in open Court & agrees & dismisses the suit and thereupon came Richard WOODARD in proper person and assumes the payment of costs - It is therefore considered by the Court that the suit stand dismissed & that the plaintiff recover of Richard WOODARD the costs in this behalf expended.

The marriage records for Robertson Co, TN for this period no longer exist, but the marriage of Green Woodward and Adeline Collier can be proven by the 1855 Wilson Co, TN will of Robert H Collier which named daughter Adaline N(?) Woodrdand the 1900 marriage record of son Benjamin F Woodward which named parents Gren Woodward and Adaline (or Adiline) Collins. The name Woodward appeared as Woodrale in Some Collier Families, Descendants of Robert Collier and Isabella Dodington by Leroy and Mildred (English) Collier, Bowling Green, Ky c. 1990, p. 309:
"3. Adeline Collier (11), m _____ Woodrale"
 

Green Woodward's son, Benjamin Franklin Woodward, was born in Robertson Co, TN in 1829 according to Benjamin F Woodward's Civil War papers (see below). B F Woodward's 1900 marriage record stated he was born in Tennessee. Very shortly afterward, Green Woodward moved to Calloway Co, KY where he appeared on the 1830 census.
 

1830 Calloway Co, KY

Merril Utley p 193 (brother of Elizabeth Utley, James Woodward's wife)
males    0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1   1M 10-14, 1M 15-20, 1M 50-60 (Merrill Utley b 1770-1780)
females 0 1 1 0 0 0 1   1F 5-9, 1F 10-24, 1F 40-50 (Elizabeth Woodward b 1780-90)

James Woodard p 200 (Green's uncle, brother of Richard Woodward)
males    0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1  1M 60-70  (James Woodward b 1760-1770)
females 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1  1F 60-70

Edward Woodard p 203 (Green's older brother)
males    2 2 1 0 0 1  2M 0-4, 1M 5-9, 1M 10-14, 1M 30-39  (Edward Woodward b 1790-1800)
females 1 1 0 0 0 1  1F 0-4, 1F 5-9, 1F 30-39

Green Woodard p 204
males    1 0 0 0 1   1M 0-4, 1M 20-29  (Green Woodward b 1800-1810)
females 1 0 0 0 1  1F 0-4, 1F 20-29
 

Green Woodward was named as a son in the Robertson Co, TN will of Richard Woodward written Feb 21, 1839:
9th – I give and bequeath unto my Son Green twenty three dollars as I have his note and receipts for the balance of his legacy.

Green did not appear as a buyer at Richard Woodward's estate sale. He was not mentioned in the later estate accounts.

1840 Census - Logan Co., KY
Green F. Woodward
2 males under 5 - 2 males 5 to 10 - 1 male 10 to 15 - 1 male 30 to 40 - 1 female under 5 - 1 female 10 to 15 - 1 female 30 to 40

4?/11? November 1844
This Indenture made and entered into this 4?/11?th day November One thousand eight hundred & Forty four between William S. Evans of the county of Logan and State of Kentucky of the one part and Green F. Woodward of the county and State aforesaid of the other part.... sum of one hundred & sixty dollars to me in hand paid by the said Woodward the receipt whereof is hereby acknowled [sic], I have this day granted, bargained, sold, and conveyed and doth by these presents grant, bargain sell and convey unto the Woodward his heirs and assigns, a certain tract or parcel of land, lying, being and situated in the aforesaid county of Logan and State of Kentucky on the waters of Big Whippoorwill and bounded as following (to wit) Beginning at two black oaks corner of James Morrow and Thomas Wells' heirs: Running thence S 40 1/2 W 126 poles to a small hickory and gum. thence S 52 E 29 poles to a black oak thence S 40 1/2 E 97 poles to black oak & post oak corner of Thomas Wells' heirs, thence N 5 W 41 poles with their lines to the beginning: containing twenty acres be the same more or less: to him, the sd Woodward, his heirs and assigns forever: and the sd Evans, doth hereby covenant and agree with the sd Woodward forever to warrant and defend the above described land and premises unto the sd Woodward his heirs and assigns ...
                                                                                              William S Evans (Seal)
Teste
[no witnesses given]
Logan County  ???
I Marmaduke B Morton as clerk of the ??? Logan County court do certify that this deed from William S Evans to Green F Woodward was on the 22nd day of December 1845 produced to me in my office by said grantor and acknowledged by the said Evans to be his act and deed Whereupon the said deed together with this certificate hath been duly admitted to record in my office.    Given under my hand this 2[?]th day of December 1845.      M. B. Morton
Logan Co, KY Deed Book ?, p 246, 247

10 March 1846
This Indenture made and entered into this 10 day of March One thousand, eight hundred and forty six between G. F. Woodard of the county of Logan & state of Kentucky of the one part & Alfred Hogges of the county & state aforesaid of the other part .... sum of one hundred & fifty dollars ... certain tract or parcel of land lying being and siuated on the waters of Big Whippoor will in the county & State aforesaid and bounded as follows (to wit) beginning at two black oaks corner of James Morrow and Thomas Wells airs, running thence S 40 1/2 W 126 poles to a small hickory and gum, thence S 52 E 29 poles to a black oak, thence N 40 1/2 E 97 poles to a black oak & post oak corner of Thomas Wells airs thence N 5 W 41 poles with their line to the beginning containing twenty acres to him the sd Hoges his airs and assignes forever and the sd Woodward & Adaline E Woodard his wife doth covenant and agree with the sd Hoges forever to warrant and defend....
                                                                                             G. F. Woodard
                                                                                              Adeline x Woodward (Seal)
                                                                                                      her mark
Attest
[no witnesses given]
The commonwealth of Kentucky
Logan County set[?]                             We Eli Orndorff and Drury W Pon[?] two of the commonwealth justices of the peace for said county do hereby dertify that Adeline E. Woodward wife of the within named Green F Woodward, persally [sic] appeared before us and being examined by us separately privily and apart from her said husband, acknowledged that she did freely & willingly sign and deliver the said writing the same being again shown and explained to her to ??? act & deed and wishes not to retract it and consenteth that the same might be recorded which  ??? to the clerk of the Logan county court where the premises ?? for record- Given under our hands this 20 day of November 1846-
                                                                                              Eli Orndorff JPL
                                                                                               D W Poor[?] JPL
Logan County Setn[?]
I Marmaduke B Morton as clerk of the Logan county court do certify that this deed from Green F Woodward & wife to Alfred Hodges was on the 18th day of March 1846 produced to me in my office by said grantor and acknowledged by the said Woodward to be his act and deed- Whereupon the said deed together with the certificate thereon and this certificate have been duly admitted to record in my office- Given under my hand this 28th day of January 1847-
                                                                                                 M. B. Morton

1850 Census - Montgomery Co., Tn
320  320
G.F. Woodward - 43 - male - carpenter - b. NC
Adeline E. - 41 - female - b. Tenn
Marcus L. - 17 - male - b. Tenn
Thomas J. - 15 - male - b. Tenn
Richard C. - 13 - male - b. Tenn
Gabrial - 11 - male - b. Tenn
William - 9 - male - b. Tenn
Mary - 7 - female - b. Tenn
Amanda - 5 - female - b. Tenn
Martha - 3 - female - b. Tenn

1860 Census, Guadalupe Co., Tx - Lavernia Post Office
Series:  M653, Roll:  1296, Part:  1, Page:  296A
next door to the T.T. (Tilman) Collier family
Green F. Woodward  carpenter  44 NC (age certainly in error)
Adaline 53 TN
Mary 13 KY
Margaret A. 11 TN
Laura 9 TX
Tilman 6 TX

1860 Census - Guadalupe Co., Tx
Seguin Co., Tx p. 286
(not far from Green Woodward)
enumerated with parents Tho D. and Mary M. Spain
L. Philander Spain - 15 - male - student - b. Miss
parents were born in NC and Ala

Wilson County, Texas Marriage Records 1860-1876 by Frances T. Ingmire (1985)
Woodward, Maggie A. m. Spain, Louison (?) P. on 27 Feb 1866

1868 (19 June) - Marriage Record
Guadalupe Co., Tx #594 Book B, Page 157
William Adams and Mary S. Woodward
m. 19 Jun 1868
Justice of the Peace: Wm Dunn
Witnesses: CW Cowey and Leander Spain

Green Woodward died after June 19, 1868 but before August 3, 1869 in a shootout with his son-in-law, Leander?/Louison? Philander "Frank" Spain, husband of Green's daughter, Margaret Woodward. Frank Spain was killed too, and Margaret remarried Robert McDonald Myers. Her son, Frank Spain (Jr) age 3, was also listed in the Myers household. The Guadalupe, TX marriage index includes:  R.M Myers and Margaret A. Spain, 3 August 1869.

Donna Boots contributed two accounts of this shootout as recorded by her family:

The following family stories were written about the Green F. and Adaline (Collier) Woodward family of Guadalupe Co., Tx. Green’s family is enumerated in the 1860 Guadalupe Co., Tx census at Lavernia Post Office. Green and Adaline’s daughter Margaret married Frank Spain in Texas. She and Frank had one son named Frank in 1867. Though one story states that the murder took place in Goliad, Tx, because of the census location, I believe it actually took place in Guadalupe Co, Tx about 1868. Margaret later married Robert M. Myers and lived in Goliad Co., Tx. The storytellers, Bessie Myers Craighead Vanderzyde and Jessie Schulze Brummer Rodrigues were Margaret’s grandchildren and great granddaughters of Green F. and Adaline Woodward.
Donna Boots
Alamogordo, NM

Storytellers:
Bessie Myers Craighead Vanderzyde
Jessie Schulze Brummer Rodrigues

Bessie’s Story:
From a series of letters from Mrs. Bessie Vanderzyde (1969 – San Antonio, Tx) to her cousin Jessie Schulze Brummer
The Woodwards are Grandmother Myers family. She was Margaret Woodward. During the war she married Frank Spain (at 13 years of age) and left with him and went with his family in Oklahoma. He was supposed to be a Yankee. That is the reason for them having to leave home. She had one son also Frank Spain.
Grandmother and Frank came back to Goliad, Tx thinking things would be alright and wanted to see her family and show them her son but they still had not forgiven her for marrying Frank. she and Frank went to see them. Her father and brothers were out cutting wood. Her mother asked her not to go see them but she believed her father and brothers would forgive her so they went out where they were. They shot Frank and before he died shot her father and a great tragedy. She lost her husband and father whom she loved very much. Her brothers buried him there and told the story that Frank had shot their father and rode away. They also buried his horse and saddle. So when grandmother died her brother Abe Woodward came to our house and begged grandmother to forgive him. Cried and pleaded but she was dead. he wanted forgiveness for what they had done to her and made her keep silent all her life.

Jessie’s Story:
So the story starts with Maggie Woodard and her family.
They had decided to move to Texas, we know that Maggie and her mother and father and one brother lived together in the Texas area. Maggie married a man by the name of Frank Spain and because Frank Spain was from the Oklahoma area, Maggie’s parents weren’t too happy about this marriage. So Frank with his new wife Maggie moved into the Oklahoma area to live. In the meantime Maggie became pregnant and her and Frank had a boy by the name of Frank Spain Jr. Later Maggie thinking that enough time had passed, wanted to go back to Texas to see her family.
When they arrived at their old home, Maggie’s mother, who would be my great Grandmother had told her that she didn’t believe that enough time had passed and that she didn’t think that Maggie should take Frank out with her to see her father and brother were. But Maggie thought different and her and Frank went out to the field anyway.
A fight did break out between Maggie’s dad, my great grandfather, and her husband Frank. My great grandfather shot Frank, but before he died, Frank Spain also shot my great Grandfather. They both died in the field and Maggie’s brother buried Frank Spain right there. They must have had a funeral for my great Grandfather and Maggie’s brother made her not tell anyone about Frank. The story that they told was that Frank Spain had shot Mr. Woodard and ran away and no one could find him, so Maggie raised her son Frank Spain Jr. without a father or a grandfather.
Jessie Schulze Brummer
7 March 1982
 
 

Guadalupe Co., TX marriage records contributed by Donna Boots:

James E. Newton and Elviny F. Collier – 26 July 1857
Witnesses: RH Collier and TL Collier
(Elvira F Collier)

HWS Collier and AJ Woodward – 26 July 1859
Witnesses: RH Collier and TL Collier
(Hesekiah W Smith Collier and Amanda Jane Woodward, Green's daughter)

CC Woodward and ME Collier – 14 November 1865
Witnesses: J. Western Smith, WK Hagnes and RM Smith
(Christopher Columbus Woodward and Matilda Elizabeth Collier)

Monroe Adams and Laura Woodward – 13 June 1866
Witnesses: None Listed
(Green's daughter)

William Adams and Mary L. Woodward – 19 June 1868
Witnesses: CW Cowey and Leander Spain
(Green's daughter)

R.M Myers and Margaret A. Spain – 3 August 1869
Witnesses: James Newton and E. Newton
(Margaret A Woodward, Green's daughter, widow of Frank Spain)

Compare the Collier names in these records to the Tilman T Collier censuses. Tilman T Collier was Adeline E Collier's brother.

1850 Hempstead Co, AR pg. 210
Tilman T. COLLIER 45 Farmer b. TN
Susan D. 46 b. VA
Robert H. 16 b. KY
Hesekiah W. S. 13 b. ARK
Elvina F. 10 b. ARK
Susanna L. 9 b. ARK
Elizabeth M. 7 b. ARK

1860 Guadalupe Co, TX
T.T. COLLIER 55 Blacksmith b.TN
Susan D 56 b. VA
Susanna L. 18 b. ARK
Robert H. 26 Blacksmith b. KY
Elizabeth 16 b. ARK
Susan E. 4/12 b. TX
H.W.S. COLLIER 23 Carpenter b. ARK
Amanda J. 21 b. KY

Benjamin Franklin Woodward was another son of Green F Woodward and Adeline Collier, probably their oldest son. The Marion Co, IL marriage register entry for the Oct 3, 1900 marriage of Benjamin F Woodward and his second wife, Lettie Creekman Preston, states that his parents were Gren Woodward and Adalin (or Adilin) Collins. He stated he was born in Tennessee, but he was much older than age 50 (at next birthday).

Benjamin F Woodward's Civil War enlistment papers dated Feb 16, 1865 state he was age 36 and born in "Robinson Co", Tennessee. This would indicate his birth date was 1828 or 1829.
 
 

The death certificate for Benjamin F Woodward states that he died Oct 29, 1906 in Xenia, IL at age 77 years, -- months, -- days. His place of birth was listed as Kentucky. The names of the physician and undertaker appear on the record, but no informant.

Jo Woodward stated:
He [Benjamin Franklin Woodward] was born in 1829, although the date is confused by a couple of other years given in various other places. The other dates are within two or three years of 1829, if I recall correctly.  ....  Benjamin Franklin Woodward, b.26/Nov/1829 in Robertson Co., TN. He died 29/Oct/1906 in Illinois. .....  The death certificate for B.F. shows him as dying at age 77 -- Oct. 6, 1906 -- in Xenia, IL. His first wife, Sarah Abernathy, died in 1897. .....  There is also a James in the 1830 Tennessee census listed as living in Robertson Co. That is the county listed in the Civil War papers as the birth county of Benjamin Franklin, Green's son.

[Note: James Woodard of Robertson Co, TN was a descendant of the Edgecombe Co, NC Woodards and not related to our Woodwards. Richard's brother James Woodward was living in Calloway Co, KY in 1830. I do not know what record gives this exact birth date.]

Benjamin Franklin Woodward was married to Sarah A Abernathy at H Abernathy's on April 17, 1855 in Christian Co, KY by Nicholas Lacy, Minister of Bap Ch, in presence of John B Bryan and Geo V Campbell. Witnesses were James Aberneathy (sic) Doct Henry Jesse Angel. (There are no commas, so it's not clear from this document alone if Doct Henry was one man and Jesse Angel was another, or if this was one man named Doct Henry Jesse Angel.)

A posting by Jack Collier concerns daughter Amanda Jane Woodward who married Hezekiah W Smith Collier, son of Tilman T Collier. Jack Collier states, "The only info I have on her parent (and it's sketchy) is they were Mr. & Mrs. A.E. Woodward. The Collier family bible lists Mrs. A.E. Woodward (81 years old) died March 13, 1892."

This would seem to be Adaline E (Collier) Woodward, Green's widow. Adaline has not been found on any censuses after 1860. We have not been able to learn which Collier Bible this was, who has the Bible now, or how Jack Collier obtained this information.

Donna Boots has examined Green's census records and other records that establish the family, and has found documentation to support the following children:

Benjamin F. Woodward  (b. bet 1825-1830)
female child (b. bet 1825-1830)
Gabriel (b. 1832)
Marcus L. (b. about 1832)
Thomas J. (b. about 1835)
Richard C. (b. 1837)
William (b. about 1841)
Amanda (b. about 1845)
Mary (possibly same as Martha on 1850 census) (b. 1846)
Margarite (b. about 1850)
Laura (b. 1852)
Tilman (b. 1854)

Descendants of Christopher Columbus Woodward (who also married a daughter of Tilman T. Collier) believe that he was another son of Green Woodward, but he never appeared on Green's censuses and no other documentation has been found to prove his father. Christopher Columbus Woodward has not been identified as a child on any Woodward census in 1850 or 1860. Holly Dickson has been researching this family. A post-it note finally explained provided the explanation. Christopher Columbus Woodward was called Gabriel or Gabe. The writing by Bessie Myers Craighead Vanderzyde remembered him as Margaret Woodward's brother Abe. A son Gabrial did appear on Green's 1850 census, but we could never find later records for a Gabriel/Gabe Woodward of this age frame. No one had realized that Gabe was Christopher Columbus Woodward's nickname.

Although we never found any record that states what the F stood for in Green F. Woodward, Holly's grandfather said his mother told him several times that the F stood for Flowers. That one clue has led us to search the Flowers family. A Green Flowers appeared on the 1820 Robertson Co, TN census. Perhaps Green Flowers Woodward's mother was a Flowers, a sister of Green Flowers. We are still trying to prove this.

On November 24, 2003, Bernard Haran Anderson, born February 17, 1917, son of Susannah Elizabeth Woodward Anderson born 1883 and Dudley Aaron Anderson, grandson of Christopher Columbus Woodward, stated to me, his granddaughter, Holly Lynn Morris Dickson, that he remembered his grandfather, CC Woodward, that his grandfather's real name was Christopher Columbus Woodward, and that the family called him Gabe/Gabriel. He remembered seeing CC once or twice, and he remembers his mother talking about the family, and his grandfather in particular.

On November 24, 2003, Bernard Haran Anderson, born February 17, 1917, son of Susannah Elizabeth Woodward Anderson and Dudley Aaron Anderson, great-grandson of Green F. Woodward, stated to me, his granddaughter, Holly Lynn Morris Dickson, that he remembered his mother telling him that his great-grandfather's name was Green Flowers Woodward. She told him several times because she thought it was an unusual name.

On November 24, 2003, Bernard Haran Anderson, born February 17, 1917, son of Susannah Elizabeth Woodward Anderson and Dudley Aaron Anderson, great-grandson of Green F. Woodward, stated to me, his granddaughter, Holly Lynn Morris Dickson, that he remembered his mother talking about Laura Woodward and her marriage to Monroe Adams. He also remembers her telling him about Tilman marrying a Spivey girl.

In September/October of 2003 Holly Lynn Morris Dickson found a photograph of the Woodward family in Bernard Haran Anderson's house. The picture is a snapshot of the actual photograph, framed and hanging on a wall. Mr. Anderson didn't remember where the picture came from, but his granddaughter, Holly, spoke to Opal Woodward Fulcher, daughter of Kesuth Hale Woodward, granddaughter of Christopher Columbus Woodward, and she confirmed that she had sent the picture to him. The actual photograph is in her possession. There is a post-it note on the back naming each person in the picture. Mr. Anderson has seen each person at least once except for Lula Woodward Gammons. The explanation on the Post-It note is as follows:

Tisha made this copy for you
She thinks you should have one.
Bottom row L to R Willie Gammons
C.C. Gabe (Grandpa) CC Jr. (Nig) Betty (Grandma)
Gus Gammons K H. (Suit) Woodward
Addie Woodward Ferguson Robert Woodward
Ellen Adams Woodward Nan Woodward
Anderson Lula Mae Gammons

This is exactly how it is written.

Guadalupe Co., TX marriage record:
CC Woodward and ME Collier – 14 November 1865
Witnesses: J. Western Smith, WK Hagnes and RM Smith
(Christopher Columbus Woodward and Matilda Elizabeth Collier)
 
 

A HUGE thanks to  , Jo Woodward,  , Holly Dickson, and Freda Stephenson who contributed many of the records included here.