A genealogy and a history of the ancestors and descendants of Thomas Spencer Cotting born 29 Apr 1815 in Worcester Co., Mass., died 6 Oct 1887 in Bristol, Wisc. and his wife Jane Burgess born 17 Sep 1817 in New York and died 13 Sep 1904 in Wisc.
John Lucius Woods (b.1912) is the son of George Benjamin Woods (1878- 1958) and Helen Smith (1881-1956) of Oxford, Butler Co., Ohio. He is the descendant of James Woods (1767-1869) the emigrant, who was born at St. James Park, London, England and settled in Darke Co., Ohio and his wife, Rebecca Peden (1780-1855), the daughter of Obadiah Peden and Esther Dunn of York Co., PA. He married Mary Torkilson in 1938 at Evanston, Ill. Thirteen generations of ancestors are traced.
Published in 1910, this volume contains an abstract of North Carolina wills. Compiled from original and recorded wills in the office of The Secretary of State.
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