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- Information on David Woodard from the "History of Nodaway and Atchison Counties Missouri".
David Woodard
The versatility of Americans is proverbial, and their adaptability to the changing conditions of peace and war is one of their most remarkable characteristics. In all parts of our country are men who, upon the call to arms, dropped the hoe or left their places at the desk or bench to take up the rifle, and who, when peace came again, at once put themselves in accord with the even tenor of civil life. Many such citizens live within the borders of Nodaway county, Missouri, and it is our purpose now to give some account of the life of one of these, David Woodard, of Lincoln township, whose postoffice address is Elmo. David Woodard was born in North Carolina November 26, 1832, a son of Braxton and Hannah (Drullinger) Woodard. The Woodards are of English ancestry, the Drullingers of German extraction. Besides the subject of this notice, Mr. and Mrs. Braxton Woodard had six children: Mary Ann, Delphie, Angeline and another daughter, who are dead, Lavina and Rebecca. The father died in Fountain county, Indiana, at the age of sixty years, the mother in Coffey county, Kansas, at the same age, both honored and respected by all who know them. David was reared on a pioneer farm in Fountain county, Indiana, and attended school as opportunity offered, in a log school house near his father's home. At nineteen he went to Coles county, Illinois, and soon afterward married Ellen Clark, a daughter of Solomon and Mary Clark. During the succeeding ten or eleven years he lived the quiet but industrious life of a prairie citizen of that time, devoting himself assiduously to an attempt to "get on in the world." In 1862 he enlisted in Company A, One Hundred and Twenty-third Illinois Volunteer Infantry, under the command of Captain James B. Hill. After some preliminary fighting in Kentucky, he was in the engagements at Chickamauga, Murfreesboro and Ringgold, on the march to Atlanta, and was in the movement against Hood. At all times he proved himself a brave and devoted soldier, equally to be depended upon in the field, on the march or in camp. On receiving his discharge he returned to Illinois and took up the less exciting routine of civil life. In 1867 he emigrated to Nodaway county, Missouri, where he secured land and began the work of developing a good farm. So well did he succeed in that undertaking that he now has a valuable homestead property, including good plow and pasture lands, with adequate buildings of all kinds and all necessary to successful farming. Mr. Woodard is a Populist and is not without a recognized local political influence of his follow townsmen, among whom he has lived on terms of neighborly friendship for a third of a century. Mr. and Mrs. Woodard have seven children, who will be mentioned in the order of their nativity: Miranda, who married J. H. Livengood, an ex-soldier and well known citizen of Lincoln township; Allsion, of Elmo, Nodaway county; Arison, of Clark county, Iowa; Ira, a prominent citizen of Lincoln township, now holding the office of justice of the peace; Angeline, who married Aaron Faulknor and lives at Valley, Nebraska; Rozella, who is the wife of William Rosebrough, of Loveland, Colorado; and James, of Coles county, Illinois.
Biographical history of Nodaway & Atchison county, Missouri
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1832 - 1913 (80 years)
