Tabitha Tinsley (Spencer) Woods (1781 - bef. 1861)

Born 9 Feb 1781 in Anderson, Pendleton, South Carolina, United States

Ancestors

Wife of John Ritchey — married 18 Apr 1797 (to about 1820) in Lincoln, Kentucky, United States

Wife of George W Woods — married about 1828 in Fayette, Tennessee, United States

Descendants

Died before 1861 before age 79 in Hot Springs, Garland, Arkansas, United States

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Biography

Tabitha Tinsley (Spencer) Woods was born on 9 Feb 1781 in Anderson, Pendleton, South Carolina, United States. Her parents were Moses Spencer (1746 - 1826) and Elizabeth (Tinsley) Spencer (~1763 - 1849).

Her siblings were...

1. Amasa Spencer ( - )
2. William Spencer (1771 - 1858)
3. John Spencer (1773 - 1846)
4. Moses Spencer (~1780 - <1865)
5. Elizabeth Spencer (1781 - )
6. Mary Spencer (~1782 - )
7. Thomas Spencer (~1785 - 1868)
8. Amzi Spencer (1798 - )
9. Ellen Spencer (~1800 - 1864)

Tabitha married John Ritchey (~1775 - >1860) on 18 Apr 1797 in Lincoln, Kentucky.

Their children were...

1. James Christopher Richey (~1798 - ~1876)
2. Moses DeKalb Richey (~1799 - ~1869).

Tabitha married George Wallace Woods (~1780 - 1860) in 1828.

Their son was Joseph Brown Woods (~1804 - >1885).

Tabitha died in <1861 in Hot Springs, Garland, Arkansas aged ~80.

Research Notes

Alternate death locations: Pope Co or Grant Co, AR

Married John Richie/Richey, George Woods.

"Tabitha Spencer was married to John Richie/Richey and had several children. They divorced in Feb. 1820,a divorce granted by the Kentucky Legislature. Her husband claimed she was unfaithful with another(George Woods).She and George relocated to Grant county, Arkansas. She died there circa 1860."

alternatively...

"John Richie died prior to 1819. Tabitha Richie is found on the 1819 tax list and on the 1820 census in Hart County, Kentucky. She moved to Fayette County, TN with her sons in the early 1820's. Here she remarried to George Woods and they can be found in Hot Springs County, Arkansas in 1850." p 26 of URL: https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1071&context=traces_bcgsn

Sources

• "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q28D-NCYF : 29 November 2018), John Riche and Tabitha Spencer, 18 Apr 1797; citing Marriage, Lincoln, Kentucky, United States, various county clerks and county courts, Kentucky; FHL microfilm 192,261.
• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M67C-TTH : 4 April 2020), Tabetha Woods in household of George W Woods, Hot Spring, Hot Spring, Arkansas, United States; citing family 482, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).