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J. W. WOODARD, a native of Lincoln County, was born March 9, 1843, son of M. C. and Lucinda Woodard. The father was of Irish descent, and was born in Lincoln County in 1810. He was a blacksmith and farmer by occupation, and died in September, 1860. The mother of our subject was also born in Lincoln County about 1818, and now resides at the old home-place in the Thirteenth District with her son W. S. Our subject received his education in the schools near home, and remained with his parents until the breaking out of the late war. In 1861 he enlisted in Company F, Forty-fourth Tennessee Infantry, and took part in the battles of Shiloh, Chickamauga, Murfreesboro, Petersburg, and was captured at this place and taken to Fort Delaware, where he remained about four months. He returned home in July, 1865, after over four years’ service, and was in many of the hottest battles of the war without receiving a single wound. In 1866 he married M. E. Hampton, a native of Lincoln County, born in 1845, and the daughter of Samuel and Annie Hampton. To our subject and wife were born six children: Samuel M., James G., John H. F., Lillian, Robert M. and Martha L. After remaining on the old home-place about four years our subject purchased about 100 acres of land in the Thirteenth District, where he located and remained about thirteen years. In 1883 he bought 135 acres in the Sixteenth District, where he located. He still retains the farm in the Thirteenth District and owns 485 acres of valuable land. He also owns a mill and is doing a good business in grinding grain and sawing lumber. Besides this, he looks after the interest of the farm. He is a Democrat, a Mason, and he and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.