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Submitted by: Russell Gunder
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I have the pleasure of sharing with you a rare "Find." I*ve been

continuing to contact newly found cousins. Lately I've been con

cerned with the descendants of JOHN KELLY WOODRUPP, one of NATHAN

and SARAH STEBBINS sons. He was born 1i+ Nov, l8l4 and died 1? Dec.

1906. He was a staunch Methodist, and Elder and Lay Preacher. One

of his descendants, a Mr. Billy Geery, of McLean, Virginia, had a

Bible that was either his or Nathan Woodruff's. In it were quite
extensive records which were vital to my family history and which
can be known in no other way yet found.
*

My deepest appreciation must go to Cousin Billy Geery for sharing

with us these records.

Bible published by Mathew Carey, 122 Market St. Philadelphia, Pa.

in 1807. First owened by Nathan Woodruff. He was of Warren County,

Ohio, 1817-1829. He lived near Waynesville and near Cornelius Morford, his father-in- law. Here they are in order found.
MARRIAGE

NATHAN WOODRUPP with MARY his wife was married June the 11th 1787

Second marriage with SARY (SARAH) STEBBINS married Oct. 17, 1802
BIRTHS

NATHAN WOODRUPP was bom November 17th 1762

MARY, his wife was born October 7th ^76l\.

SAMUEL WOODRUPP was born July 6th 1788

ENOS WOODRUFF was born December 12th 1790
MARY WOODRUPP was bom July l5th 1793
SARY (SARAH) WOODRUPP was born March 22nd 1798
Second marriage with SARY STEBBINS, October 17th l802
EBENEZER WOODRUPP was bom February 1st I603
BARBARY WOODRUPP was born October 25th I805
NATHAN WOODRUPP was born April 22nd 18O8
ANN WOODRUPP was born September 9th 181O (NANCY)
DAVID WOODRUPP was born May 2nd 1813

JOHN WOODRUPP was born November Ihth I81I; (JOHN KELLY)

MARGOT WOODRUPP was born March 3rd 1819 (MARGARET)
KITTEAN WOODRUPP was born December 8th 1821 (KITTY ANN)
DAVID C. WOODRUPP was bom July 8th I8I4.9
JOANNA S. or E. WOODRUPP was born October 9th l85l
EZEKIEL P. WOODRUPP was born July 22nd l853
ELIZABETH R. WOODRUFF was born August 8th I873
ALICE PEARL WOODRUPP was born December 17th I879
myrtle WOODRUPP was born February 6th 1887
,J03IE MARUE WOODRUPP was bom May I0th 1893
IEATH3

RY WOODRUPP the wife of HATHAH WOODRUPP died Auguat l6th 18OO

ENEZER WOODRUPP died October 2nd 18OI4. .
ENOS WOODRUPP died January 2J+th I805

cont.
BARBARY WOODRUFF died April 30th lB09

DaVID woodruff died September 2nd ltil3

SARY STOGDEN died September 7th 1819

Child died near the same time

SARY WOODRUFF wife of NATHAK WOODRUFF, SR, died March 9th l8ii8
NATHAN WOODRUFF, SR. died July 27th l8i|8

ELIZABETH R. WOODRUFF wife of JOHN K. WOODRUFF died September 2iitb

1881

JOHN K. WOODRUFF died December 17th 1906

*

There were also on separate cards:

DAV.ID S. CLAYTON died March 13th 1863 aged 15 years 5 months 28 days
at Eaton, Ohio

JOHN K. CLAYTON died October 20th l862 at Camp Dennison, a soldier,

93i*d Infantry, 22 years 1 month 11 days. Funeral at residence of

BROTHER WILLIAM at Eaton, Ohio.

On a separate scrape of paper;
ELIZABETH RUTH FISHER was born August 8th 1823
Thus ends the Bible records. WHAT A FIND!!I

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Though not named herein, Mary the first wife was MARY MORPORD a

daughter of CORNSLIUS MORPORD and EaTHER (BRIAN or BRY^) MORPORD.

There was still a male child listed in the 181O census In thi,

hold who was born 1794/1800. He could have been omitted from the
Bible record, or as is more likely he could have been a more dis
tant relativ'e in the household at the. time*

Notice that SARAH was always spelled SARY as it was spoken.

WOODRUFPrin
Therefolks
were lived
five ENOS
In thsr^2^o?N
that area of New Jerseysupri.
when these
there.
EBpsZER, was born February 1, 1803, was almost certainlv named

after EBENEZER STEBBIKS, his grandfather.

DAVID Ce, JOANNA B. end EZEKIEL P. were the children of JOHN KELLY

and ELIZABETH RUTH FISHER WOODRUFF. EZEKLTFT w

^ KELLY
and is buried at Middletown, Ohio. Until now it was ausplcteJ fffat

he was the son of JOHN K. and ELIZABETH WOODRUFF.

ALICE PEARL, MYRTLE and JOSIE MARUE WOODRUFF were daughters of

DAVID C. (CLAYTON) WOODRUFF and wife ANNE E. PENCE WOODRUFF.

SARY STOGDEN was SARAH WOODRUFF, born 22 Mdrch 179d. She married
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DAVID STOGDEN in Warren County^ Ohio, November 2l|th, 1616* They
were married by JOSHUA CARMAN (CARMM), ELDER*
There were two SARAH WOODRUFFS in Warren County. This settles the
question of which one was "mine". She married DAVID STOGDEN or
STOGDON, as it is sometimbs written. What had become of them was

not known because we could never find a census record or any other
record. Now we know it was because she died before 1620.

There were two DAVID STOGDONS in the area, both married. It is like

ly that DAVID remarried within several years of SARAH"S death. She

evidentTy died as a result of child birth.

This Bible record really leaves me with a pretty comi^ete record of

the family back to NATHAN WOODRUFF SR.

There is one main unanswered question remaining:

Who were NATHAN WOODRUFF'S parents??? Were they NATHANIEL W.
WOODRUFF, son of NATHAN or NATHANIEL, as one tradition says ?? Or
were they SAMUEL and SARAH WOODRUFF?? Notice the first son was SAM

UEL and the second girl SARAH. (The first girl was MARY for her

mother, MARY MOHFORD) They could have been named for grandparents.
There were both a NATHANIEL and a SAMUEL WOODRUFF in the area, both
of proper age, and neither with a recorded son named NATHAN. Or did
NATHAN come to Salem Co. from elsewhere??

The two CLAYTON boys in the Bible records who died and were buried
Sw.

at Eaton, were the children of ANN WOODRUFF, born 9th of September

1010. In all records, marriage, census and death, she was called

NANCY. Possibly her name was NANCY ANN. She married DAVID CLAYTON,

0th of March 1032, in Butler County, Ohio. He died 30th of March

1014.7, leaving her with eight children ages 15 to not yet born. JOHN

KELLY, her younger brother, helped raise several of the children

and named a son DAVID CLAYTON WOODRUFF, after this boy. ANN made

her home in later years with her son, WILLIAM BURTON CLAYTON. She

died 10th of February 1892 and is buried at Mound Hill Cemetery in

Eaton, Ohio..^

If you have any further information on the families, please write

to: Russell Gunder, 16OI South Highway 57# Washington, Indiana,
47501

The cheapest way to have your family tree traced is to run for
office.

ARNOLD GLASOW

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Mary L. Cook Public Library

Ohioana Room

Vertical File-Genealogy
WOODRUFF

WOODRUFF

Wayne Woodruff, 5reat-great grandson of Israel Woodruff of Waynesville, Ohio)

was living at R.R. # 2, Box 160, Coal City, Indiana 47427 in 1974.

Israel Woodruff, \/^o built the Miami House Inn at Waynesville in 1826 and was
the first innkeeper, also built the brick mn at Corwin, Ohio on the corner
of Clarksville Road and Railroad Street in 1844.

Israel Woodruff married Sarah McNabb. Israel died December 13, 1851. Sarah

McNabb Woodruff died February 23, 1880. Sarah came to Waynesville with her
pcirents in 1801 from Butler County.

Ttiere were twins, John and Israel Cicero Woodruff bom in Waynesville in 1825.
There was also a Lafayette Woodrull who served in the Civil War in 1862.

Dennis E. Dalton
Ccjtinunith Historian
1988