Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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1892, MAY. 967 THE WOODSON FAMILY No. 2 at the fair grounds. They are addressed by Senator N. B. Anderson. Belt Commandery elected Sir Knight A. D. Burnes E. C. May 28 - Benjamin J. Woodson died at his home in St. Joseph THE WOODSON FAMILY descended from John Woodson, or Dorsetshire, who settled in Virginia 1624. I. ROBERT WOODSON, married Elizabeth Ferris, dr. of Richard Ferris, of "Curles", which afterward became the seat of the Randolph family. Their son, II. JOSEPH WOODSON, married Mary Woodson, dr. of John Woodson (ii) and Mary Tucker, dr. of John III. TUCKER WOODSON (i), married 1st, Sarah Hughes. Her brother John Hughes married Annie Moore, and they were parents of Letitia D. Hughes, who married Gen. Joseph Winston, father of Col. John Hughes Winston, C. S. A. Children: 1. Tucker Woodson (ii), of Jessamine County, Ky., who served several terms in the Kentucky Senate and House. 2. Samuel Hughes Woodson, member of Congress from the Jessamine District of Kentucky in 1821-1825. He married Ann R. Meade, dr. of David Meade and Sarah Waters. She was born in 1782; he died in 1825. Their children: [a] Tucker Woodson (iii), 1804-1874. [b] David Meade Woodson, b. May 18, 1806, in Jesamine County, Ky.; d. Aug. 27, 1877; elected to the Kentucky House in 1831; married the same year Lucy McDowell, dr. of Major John McDowell, of Fayette County, Ky. She died in 1836, leaving an only child: [1] John McDowell Woodson, b. June 6, 1834. The same year (1834) D. M. Woodson removed to Green County, Ill. There he became a representative in the State Legislature, member of a constitutional convention, and a circuit judge. He ran for Congress, as a Whig, against Stephen Douglas, and was beaten by only a few votes. His son, John Woodson (iii), graduated at Center College, Ky., in 1853; at Harvard in 1857, and, after holding places in the State Senate, and in a constitutional convention, removed to St. Louis to continue the practice of law. D. M. Woodson married 2nd, in 1838, Julia Kennett, who survived him a year. [c] Samuel Hughes Woodson, b. in Jessamine County, Ky., Oct. 24, 1815; d. at Independence, Mo., in 1881; married in Madison County, Ky., Margaret J. Ashby, b. in June, 1820. He graduated at Center College, Ky., in 1835; came to Independence, Mo., in 1840; member of the