Seymour WOODARD

                   REFERENCES: WOODARD, 1851-1934; family bible.
REIM, Herman A., 1954-1972; genealogical file.
Saratoga County History Department, 29 Aug 1996; New York 1875 census data, age 24, occupation teamster.
CERTIFICATE OF DEATH, No. E12045, State of Nebraska, Bureau of Health, Division of Vital Statistics; carpenter, cause of death sufficative choleuptuts and arterio sclerosis; notes birthplace of mother, Jemmia Crannell, Hadley, New York.
HENNIG, Erwin K., 17 Sep 1996; genealogical compilation.
OBITUARY: Mrs. M.B. Woodard, Burt County Plaindealer, 1940.  Mr. & Mrs. Merrick Woodard and family left Hadley, New York, and came west to Nebraska in 1883.

Gordon Pearl CRANNELL (1919-    ) on 29 May 1997 commented to Kenneth M. REIM (1926-    ) about his Grandfather, Merrick Bennett WOODARD (1851-1934) as follows:  While living in Hadley, New York, he broke oxen, hauled freight, and mentioned you had to know how to lift an 800 pound barrel of salt.  Why did they move to Nebraska - Gordon didn't know, but thought land in Nebraska was opening up, and many were moving west.  In Tekamah, Merrick did carpenter an cabient work, worked in a lumber yard, and did some bookeeping.  Built a number of buildings around Tekamah; wrote his name some place on the buiding he built.  Merrick and Anna WOODARD very active/prominent in the Tekamah Methodist Church.  Merrick once shaved off his beard, and his wife Anna, said she wanted his beard back.
                  

                   REFERENCES: WOODARD, 1851-1934; family bible.
Saratoga County History Department, 29 Aug 1996; Federal and NY census data.
REIM, Herman A., 1954-1972; genealogical file.
HENNIG, Erwin K., 17 Sep 1996; data Robert and Annice HENNIG obtained on a visit to Hadley, New York.
WOODARD, Hadley, New York vital records; Hadley Vital Records - Birth of Grover WOODARD 11 Aug 1885, 2nd child, father Arthur J. WOODARD, age 33, born Hadley, mother Helen R. (ALLEN) WOODARD, AGE 34, born Corinth, New York; and Lake Luzeerne, Rte. 9N, Cemetery.
HISTORY OF SARATOGA CONTY, NEW YORK; by Nathaniel B. Sylvester, Gresham Publishing Company, Richmond, Ind., 1893, pages 368-369, short biography of Arthur J. WOODARD and family.

Arthur was reared on the Hadley farm untill he had attained his seventeenth year (1870), since which time he has always resided in the village of Hadley.  After leaving the farm he served an appreticeship as a cabient making, at which he worked for a period of five years, and then abandoned it for his health.  He soon after began work as a carpenter, and followed that occupation until the spring of 1883, at which time he embarked in the furniture and undertaking business, and conducted the enterprise for some four years.  He then disposed of the business, which one year later was repurchsed by his father, Seymour WOODARD, and since that time he has been acting as agent for his father in conducting the undertaking branch of the latter' business, and latterly as agent and manager in all departments.

On January 14, 1873, Arthur married Helen R. Allen, a daughter of George W. Allen, of Corinth.  They had three children with only two living as of 1883, George S. in his eighteenth year, and Grover A. born  August 11, 1885.

Arthur was an ardent Democrat, and served as school trustee at Hadley.  He has done much for the schools of this village.  He was amember of the Cornith Lodge, No. 174, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and of the North Hudson Lodge, No. 63, Order of Pente.
                  

                   REFERENCES: WOODARD, 1851-1934; family bible.
Saratoga County History Department, 29 Aug 1996; Federal and NY census data.
REIM, Herman A., 1954-1972; genealogical file.
HENNIG, Erwin K., 17 Sep 1996; data Robert and Annice Hennig obtained on a visit to Hadley, New York.
WOODARD, Irvine R., 18 Jul 1997; family group records, and other WOODARD ancestral and descendant data; occupation, contractor.  Verbal communication that when Pearly WOODARD moved to Sacramento, California, he built homes.