Joseph WOODRUFF

  General Notes:

gPhoto: Joseph Woodruff, 1853-1942, in later years.

Original vintage photo gift to DeeAnna Allum Granston from Dorothy Woodruff McQuie, 1907-1981, granddaughter of Joseph Woodruff


1853 BIRTH of Joseph Woodruff ("Joe") ("Dutch")

1860 DEATH (approximate) of father, Benjamin Woodruff

1860 CENSUS, Ohio, Meigs County, Salisbury Township, Pomeroy ("Joseph," age 7, with mother "Margaret," age 29)

1870 CENSUS

1879 MARRIAGE of Joseph Woodruff and Mary Martha Holman on August 17 in Centerville, Appanoose County, Iowa at First Baptist Church by Rev. F. Edwards

1880 CENSUS, Iowa, Appanoose County, Centerville (Joseph, 27, "Coal miner") (wife "Mary," age 16)

1885 CENSUS, Iowa State Census, Appanoose County, Center Township, Centerville ("Joe," age 31, "Harness Maker") (wife "Mary," age 21)

1894 DEATH of mother, Margaret (Hiland) Woodruff

1895 CENSUS, Iowa State Census, Appanoose County, Center Township, Centerville ("Joseph," age 42, "Harness," church affiliation, "Babt.") (wife "Mary," age 31, church affiliation, "Babt.")

1900 CENSUS, Iowa, Appanoose County, Center Township, Centerville ("Jos.," age 47, born "April, 1853 in Ohio," occupation "Harness maker") (wife "Mary," age 36, born "September, 1863 in Iowa"f) (Mary is documented as the mother of 4 children, 4 children living in the year 1900; she and Joseph had been married 20 years)

1905 CENSUS, Iowa State Census, Appanoose County, Center Township, Centerville ("Jos.," wife "M. M.," children "Harry B.," "Edith," "Cora," "Clarence," and "Helen R.") (names only are in the 1905 Iowa State Census)

1906 MOVE from Centerville, Appanoose County, Iowa to Stilwell, Adair County, Oklahoma

1910 CENSUS, Oklahoma, Adair County, Stilwell Township, Stilwell ("Joe," age 57, "Harnessmaker, own shop") (wife "Mary M.," age 47) (Mary is documented as the mother of 3 children, 3 children living in the year 1910; she and Joseph had been married 31 years) (Note: Mary actually had 5 children, but 3 were still in her household in 1910)

1920 CENSUS, Oklahoma, Adair County, Stilwell Township, Stilwell ("Joseph," age 66, "Harness maker") (wife "Mary M.," age 56)

1924 DEATH of son, Clarence Woodruff

1930 CENSUS, Oklahoma, Adair County, Stilwell Township, Stilwell ("Joe," age 76, occupation, "none") (wife "Mary M.," age 66)

1942 DEATH, Joseph Woodruff 89 years 7 months 23 days

1951 DEATH, Mary Martha (Holman) Woodruff at 88 years 3 months 29 days





DOCUMENT:

Sworn statement by Joe and Mary, July 15, 1942 in Adair County, Oklahoma regarding their place of residence as Stilwell, Oklahoma, as follows:

Joseph Woodruff and Mary Woodruff being first duly sworn upon oath, each state that they are man and wife and reside at Stilwell, Adair County, State of Oklahoma.

Affiants further state that they are the father and mother of Harry B. Woodruff, that the said Harry B. Woodruff was born on October 6th, 1882 at Centerville, Iowa.

Affiants further state that the said Joseph Woodruff was born in the State of Ohio on April 25th, 1853 and that the said Mary Woodruff was born on September 1st, 1863 in Centerville, Iowa, that her maiden name was Mary Holman.

Affiants further state that Benjamin Woodruff and Margaret Woodruff nee Hiland were the father and mother of the said affiant Joseph Woodruff.

Affiants further state that William Holman and Lucender Holman nee Swearingin were the father and mother of the affiant Mary Woodruff.

Further affiants are saith not.

Signed Joseph Woodruff

Signed Mary Woodruff

Subscribed and sworn to before me this the 15th day of July, 1941

Signed James T. Ma(unreadable), Notary Public (My Commission Expires Sept. 16, 1944)



FROM NEWSPAPER:

Article about 1942 about wedding anniversary, as follows:

Former Residents Of Centerville Had 63rd Anniversary

Mr. and Mrs. Joe Woodruff, Stillwell (sic), Oklahoma, former residents of this city, observed their sixty-third wedding anniversary recently at their home, according to report received here by Mrs. Woodruff's cousin, Mrs. Mose Beer.

Mr. and Mrs. Woodruff were married August 17, 1879 by Rev. F. Edwards of the First Baptist Church of Centerville, and to this union were born five children, of whom three are living, Harry Woodruff of Des Moines, Cara (sic) Roberts of Fort Smith, Arkansas, and Helen Sheffield of Pine Bluffs,
Arkansas.

Mr. Woodruff is 89 years old and Mrs. Woodruff is 79. Mrs. Woodruff being born in Centerville and her husband in Pomeroy, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Woodruff moved to Oklahoma in 1906 and previous to that time, he owned a harness shop located where the Iowegian office is now. All the children were born in Centerville.



PHOTOGRAPHS:

Joseph Woodruff (formal portrait, head and shoulders)
Mary Martha (Holman) Woodruff (formal portrait, head and shoulders)
Lucender (Swearingin) Holman (mother of Mary Martha) (formal portrait, head and shoulders)
Exterior: Joe Woodruff's Harness Shop at Centerville, Appanoose County, Iowa; Joe Woodruff standing at far right; others, to his left, probably employees of his shop
Interior: Joe Woodruff's Harness Shop at Centerville, Appanoose County, Iowa; Joe, right foreground; others, probably employees of his shop (original; print; negative)
Joe and Mary in later years in front of their house in Stilwell, Oklahoma
Mary in later years
Joe and Mary in later years with son Harry; granddaughter Dorothy Ruth (Woodruff) McQuie and her husband, Clifford Destin McQuie; unidentified woman, perhaps one of Harry's sisters
Joe and Mary in later years with their granddaughter, Dorothy Ruth (Woodruff) McQuie and her husband, Clifford Destin McQuie
Joe and Mary in later years with their son, Harry Bane Woodruff, and their granddaughter (Harry's daughter), Dorothy Ruth (Woodruff) McQuie
Joe and Mary in Stilwell Cemetery, Stilwell, Adair County, Oklahoma beside gravestone of their son, Clarence Bud Woodruff. Later, Mary was buried to the right of her son's stone, and Joseph, to the right of his wife Mary.

Joseph married Mary Martha HOLMAN, daughter of William HOLMAN and Lucinda SWEARINGEN, on August 17, 1879 in Centerville, Appanoose County, Iowa. (Mary Martha HOLMAN was born on September 1, 1863 in Centerville, Appanoose County, Iowa, died on December 30, 1951 in Stilwell, Adair County, Oklahoma and was buried on January 2, 1952 in Stilwell City Cemetery, Adair County, Oklahoma.)