WOODLAND, WILLIAM HOWELL
Surnames: WOODLAND, FIKE, WRIGHT, JOHNSON, PIRTLE, PARSONS, CORNELISON, SWINNEA, EDWARDS, DILLARD, HUDSON, TOLER, DILLINGER, GIBSON, COLE, HUNNICUT, ANDERSON, LARMOUR, JONES
William Howell Woodland, b 1848 in Fort Bend County, Texas, d 1912 at Blue Ridge, Falls County, Texas-was a son of Henry and Mary Ann (Fike) Woodland. He married January 20, 1873 in Falls County, Texas to Ella Cynthia Wright, b November 25,1854 in Texas, d March 24, 1929 at Blue Ridge, and both she and William Howell are buried in Blue Ridge Cemetery. Ella Cynthia was a daughter of Reverend and Doctor Johnson V. Wright and his wife, Ann Elizabeth (Johnson) Wright. The nine children of William Howell and Ella Cynthia (Wright) Woodland were:
Archibald V. Woodland, b 1874, d October 16, 1930 in Falls County, Texas-married first to Lucy (maiden name unknown), b July 14, 1883, d January 15, 1903 and buried in Blue Ridge Cemetery-and had one son,
William Henry Woodland, b in 1903 either when or shortly before his mother's death. William Henry Woodland married Beulah Mae Pirtle, b July, 7, 1904, d January 21, 1968, and they had three children:
Geraldine, b April 12, 1923 who married July 28, 1941 to Charles Lloyd Parsons and had seven children;
Olivia Joyce Woodland; and Billy Charles Woodland. Beulah Mae (Pirtle) Woodland married second to Samuel Marvin Cornelison, b April 16, 1896 at Blue Ridge, Texas-son of Samuel Milton and Mildred Ellen (Swinnea) Cornelison, who died December 8, 1976. They are both buried in Blue Ridge Cemetery.
Archibald V. Woodland married second on February 7, 1904 to Iris A. Edwards, b 1888, d 1915-a daughter of William and Marjorie (Dillard) Edwards. Arch and Iris had four children:
Vera,
Marjorie Woodland,
Fred M. Woodland, and
Sibyl Woodland, b May 7, 1907-married Hubert Hudson, b November 19, 1904, died and buried in Clover Hill Cemetery at Lott-a son of John and Willie Lee Hudson.
The second child of William Howell and Ella Cynthia (Wright) Woodland was Anna M. Woodland, b 1876 at Blue Ridge, b February 1, 1929. She married Robert G. Toler, b January 27, 1871, d September 5, 1915. They lived in Bremond, Robertson County, Texas and had four children:
Buel Toler who married Eunice (maiden name unknown);
Donald Toler who married (name unknown);
Alma Toler who married first to Thomas Dillinger and married second to Joe Gibson; and
Ruby Toler who married Sam Cole.
Fred Henry Woodland, b February 11, 1878 at Blue Ridge, d September 1933 at Edna, Texas-married Margaret Stella (called "Maggie") Swinnea, b January 23, 1879 at Blue Ridge, d February 22, 1964 at Edna, Texas-a daughter of Suldon Wright and Mary Elizabeth (Hunnicutt) Swinnea, and had eight children.
Charles O. Woodland, b 1880-owned the only store on Blue Ridge while a single young man. It was located directly across the road from the school house, and the voting for the Blue Ridge Box was held in the store and was known until the mid-1940s as "Woodland Voting Box." Charles moved to Arizona, where he married. No further information.
Infant Son Woodland, b & d October 16, 1882, and buried in Blue Ridge Cemetery.
Cora M. Woodland, b 1884, d 1929 and buried in Blue Ridge Cemetery-married Charles Anderson of Durango, Falls County, Texas. They had no children.
Sibyl Woodland, b May 28, 1888 at Blue Ridge, d March 12, 1972-married Henry Majors Larmour, b October 19, 1888, d December 20, 1979, and had five daughters:
Ann Louise Larmour,
Grace Woodland Larmour,
Cora Elizabeth Larmour,
Mary Ella Larmour, and
Sibyl Henrietta Larmour.
Elizabeth ("Lizzie") Woodland, b March 19, 1889, d May 6, 1912-married Ross Swinnea, b June 29, 1886, d August 13, 1954, and had one daughter,
Sibyl Mae Swinnea.
Asa G. Woodland (later Sr.), b August 29, 1891, d March 8, 1959 and buried in Blue Ridge Cemetery-married Mary Jones (called "Molly" as a young girl, and "Polly" the rest of her life), b November 1897, d July 20, 1979 and buried in Blue Ridge Cemetery. They had three children:
Asa G. Woodland, Jr.,
Aldredge Woodland, and
Polly Anna Woodland.
William Howell and Ella Cynthia (Wright) Woodland lived in the Blue Ridge Community all their lives. She taught the Bible Class at Blue Ridge Baptist Church for years, and most of their children were members of that church. William Howell Woodland was an "independent" in politics. He and Ella first lived in a little house in their pasture back of the Blue Ridge Cemetery; but in 1891 they built a beautiful two-story on the hill overlooking the Blue Ridge School. The is no longer standing. William Howell was counted as one of the most substantial citizens of Falls County during his life, because of his honesty, economy, and his accumulation of considerable property.
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 501-502, column 1&2 and column 1
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