My Genealogy Hound

W. O. Woody, a farmer of Newport Township, Barton County, Mo., is the owner of 160 acres of good land. He was born in Dade County, Mo., and is a son of J. C. and Elizabeth (Alexander) Woody, both of whom were born in Tennessee. They emigrated to Dade County, Mo., in 1849, and settled near Greenfield, where the father died in 1881, at the age of fifty years, still survived by his widow, who is residing in Dade County. Mr. Woody was for many years an elder in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and during the late war was a soldier in the Home Guards. W. O. Woody, our subject, was reared on a farm in Dade County, and received his early education in the common schools. In 1875 he married Miss Mary M. Kessler, a native of Virginia, and a daughter of Lewis and Elizabeth (Denton) Kessler, who were also Virginians, the father dying in his native State. The mother came to Dade County in 1869. Mr. and Mrs. Woody have two children: Leeverne and Maud. Mr. Woody is a stanch Republican in his political views, and he and wife have been members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church for a number of years. He is one of the substantial citizens of the county, and is always ready and willing to support worthy enterprises.