Jul-28-2018                   
             Husband: Jackson Woodford    
                Born: Mar-14-1828           1,2
                Died: Jun-23-1916          in Sinking Creek, Gilmer Co, WV  3,4 (see note 1)
              Census: 1900                 in DeKalb District, Gilmer Co, WV   (see note 2)
              Census: 1850                 in Barbour Co, (W)VA  
              Father:
              Mother:
                Wife: Louisa J. Ellyson   5  
                Born: Dec-16-1827           
                Died: Mar-15-1895           2
              Father:
              Mother:
           F Child 1: Iris Columbia Woodford      
         Census name: Iras C. 
                Born: Nov-12-1865          in Tanner, Gilmer Co, WV  6,2,7
                Died: Jan-16-1964          in Ritchie Co, WV  8,7
              Buried:                      in Lawford Cemetery, Spruce Run, jct CR 19 & 34, Ritchie Co, WV  9
             Resided: 1959                 in Morgantown, Monongalia Co, WV  10
              Census: 1900, 1910, 1930     in DeKalb District, Gilmer Co, WV  
             Husband: Levi Morris Law  b. Apr-19-1860  d. Dec-20-1935  
       Also known as: Morris Law 11,12,13
             Married: May-18-1883          in Gilmer Co, WV  14

Sources:
(1) Headstone. 
(2) 1900 Census, Gilmer County, WV (DeKalb District) 
(3) Gilmer County Death Records, Glenville, WV, http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=526722&Type=Death. 
(4) West Virginia Deaths Index, 1853-1973 [database on-line], Ancestry.com. 
(5) Death record of daughter. 
(6) Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 [database on-line], Ancestry.com. 
(7) Headstone (year only) 
(8) Ritchie County WV Deaths 1956-1970, Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave, Parkersburg, WV 26101 (Jan 1999), Identified as Iris 
C. Law, age 98, dau of Jackson & Louisa (Ellyson) Woodford, d. Jan 16 1964. 
(9) Ritchie County Historical Society (David M. Scott, Editor), Ritchie County, West Virginia Cemeteries through 1993, 
McClain Printing Co, Parsons, WV, 1995. 
(10) Obituary of daughter. 
(11) Minnie Kendall Lowther, History of Ritchie County (1911, reprinted 1999, McClain Printing Co, Parsons WV, 
http://McClainPrinting.com), p. 264. 
(12) Amos Beaty Sharps, The Samuel Barr Family:  A Genealogy List of the Various Descendants of This Family (on file at 
West Virginia University Library; ca 1961) 
(13) Death record of son. 
(14) The Barrett-Law and Related Families of West Virginia 
(http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/b/a/r/Michael-Barrett/index.html) 

Event Notes
Note (1) Death date on headstone is January 14, 1916.
Note (2) In household of daughter & son-in-law Iris & Levi M. Law and their
family.







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