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This from KY Genweb
Kentucky: A History of the State. Perrin, Battle & Kniffin, 2nd ed.,1885,
Webster Co.
John J. WOODSON was born in Hopkins County, Ky., June 3, 1839, a son of
Samuel S. and Mary G. (Cox) WOODSON, natives of Virginia and of English
descent. Samuel S. WOODSON, at the age of fifteen, in 1825, removed with
his parents to what is now Hopkins County, but was then a part of Henderson
County. There his father, Samuel WOODSON, bought wild land near
Madisonville, and improved a farm, upon which he resided until his death.
After attaining his majority Samuel S. WOODSON bought a partially improved
farm in the western part of Hopkins County, upon which he resided for some
eighteen years. He then came to Webster County and bought a farm near
Providence, upon which he resided until his death in October, 1864, in his
fifty-fourth year. He was also quite extensively engaged in the tobacco
business. He was a member of the S. of T. and he and wife of the
Cumberland Presbyterian Church. John J. WOODSON, was employed on the home
farm until he was eighteen years old, after which he attended school for
about two years. He then engaged in the general mercantile and tobacco
business at Providence for some four years, and then in the stave business
for two years. He next followed the carpenter's and painter's trades for
some seven or eight years. In the fall of 1879 he again engaged in the
general mercantile trade at Providence, where he has since been doing a
flourishing business. He was for several years a magistrate. He was
married in February, 1865, to Miss Georgia A. Dudley, a native of Caldwell
County, Ky.; four sons and three daughters have blessed their union. Mr.
WOODSON and wife are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. He is
also an earnest advocate of the temperance cause, and in politics is a
Democrat.
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