Typed by: Kay Ward
WOODLAND, ASA G.
Surnames: WOODLAND, WRIGHT, JONES, RAGLAND, MATTHEWS, PEEPLES,
MARTIN, SWINNEA, DILLARD, ERSKINE, SHORT, CLIFFORD
Asa G. Woodland, b August 27, 1891 at Blue Ridge, Falls County, Texas, d
March 8, 1959 and buried in Blue Ridge Cemetery-was a son of William
Howell and Ella Cynthia (Wright) Woodland. On February 18, 1917, he
married Mary Jones (called Molly as a young girl, and Polly
thereafter), b November, 1897, died July 20, 1979-a daughter of
Joseph O. Jones (1854-1924) and his wife, Anna Jane (Ragland) Jones
(1855-1940) of Bremond, Robertson County, Texas. Joseph O. Jones was
an agent for the Houston and Texas Central railroad, and his family
lived in the freight depot, where they reared their thirteen
children, and where he was president of the Bremond School Board for
years, and very active in the affairs of the Presbyterian Church in
Bremond.
Asa and Polly lived in the of his parents at Blue Ridge for some time,
and he farmed for a period, but later Asa became a Prison Guard in
the Texas Department of Corrections at Huntsville, until his
retirement from that position. Polly (Jones) Woodland was an
accomplished pianist, and a member of the Presbyterian Church.
However, there being only one church in Blue Ridge (Baptist), she
served as pianist for that church for many years. She took an active
part in all the church work, in school affairs and the P.T.A., and
in other civic affairs of the community. After Asa's death, Polly
resided in Marlin, Texas until her death. The three children of Asa
G. and Polly (Jones) Woodland were:
Asa G. Woodland, Jr., b ca 1918 at Blue Ridge-married first to Mary Alice
Matthews, died 1937 when her first child was born-a daughter of John
and Mamie (Peeples) Matthews. Their one child was
Sandra Woodland, b 1937, who married Michael Lewis Martin, Jr., who died
April 22, 1986 in Irving, Texas and buried in Oakwood Cemetery in
Waco, Texas. Michael and Sandra had two children:
Michelle and Dawn-both now of Austin, Texas.
Asa G. Woodland Jr., married second to Julia Catherine Swinnea-a daughter of
James Cornelius and Sarah Katherine (Dillard-Erskine) Swinnea of the
Stranger, Texas community. Asa G. and Julia Catherine (Swinnea)
Woodland, Jr. had three children (two sons and one daughter):
Nancy Woodland,
Joe Woodland, and
Donald Aldredge (called "Willie") Woodland.
Asa G. Woodland, Jr. died about 1983.
Aldredge Woodland-married Geraldine Short, and had
Julia K. Woodland,
Bonnie Sue Woodland,
Fred Glover Woodland, and now resides in Grove, Texas.
Polly Anna Woodland-who married Stalling M. Clifford. They have no children,
and reside in Lake Jackson, Texas.
Copyright Permission granted to Theresa Carhart for printing these bio of
these Falls County Families to this Web page
"Families of Falls County", Compiled and Edited by the Falls County
Historical Commission,
page 497, column 1 and column 2
Member of Falls County Historical Commission