Josiah
"Siah"
Woodham
Born in Covington County, Alabama, USA
Ancestors 
Son of John Wesley Woodham
and Mary Amanda (Ard) Woodham
Brother of
James Hillary Woodham, William Aris Woodham, Mary Lavinia Safronia (Woodham) Day, John Wesley Woodham, David McCager Woodham, George Benjamin Woodham, Aaron Thomas Woodham, Nancy Caroline (Woodham) Short, Taylor Nelson Woodham, Ida Amanda (Woodham) May, Hardy Jehue Woodham, Noah Alexander Woodham and Malachi Wilson Woodham
Husband of
Ella Augusta (Cobb) Woodham
— married
10 Dec 1876 in Covington County, Alabama, USA
Descendants 
Father of
Icy Corine (Woodham) Gatlin, Austin Jerome Woodham, Lujinie Temperance Woodham, Maude Estelle (Woodham) Wiggins, Pearl Earnestine (Woodham) Pittman, Grover Cleveland Woodham, John Bura Woodham, Oscar Bunyan Woodham, Beulah B. (Woodham) Aughtman, Lois Elvilee (Woodham) Goodwin and Era Mae (Woodham) Herring
Died
at age 87
in Andalusia, Covington, Alabama, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 22 Jun 2015
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Biography
Josiah was born in 1855 in Alabama[1]. He was the son of John Woodham and Amanda Ard. The family was living in Alabama in 1870[2].
About 1876, he married Ella Augusta Cobb and they had 11 children:
Icy Corine
Austin Jerome
Lujinie Temperance
Maude Estelle
Pearl Ernestine
Grover C
John Bura
Oscar Bunyan
Beulah B
Lois Elvilee
Era Mae
From 1900-20, the family was living in Covington County, Alabama[3][4][5]. After Ella's death in 1927, Josiah continued to live in Covington County, Alabama[6]. In 1940, he was living with his daughter Era Mae and her family in Covington County, Alabama[7].
He passed away in 1942. Burial was in the Bethel Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery in Babbie, Covington, Alabama[8].
Sources
- ↑ "United States Census, 1860", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHD6-58Q : Wed Oct 04 22:33:52 UTC 2023), Entry for John W Woodham and Amanda A Woodham, 1860.
- ↑ "United States Census, 1870", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHKM-TNG : Wed Oct 04 22:31:07 UTC 2023), Entry for J W Woodam and Amanda Woodam, 1870.
- ↑ "United States Census, 1900", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M98H-YM7 : Thu Oct 05 17:16:24 UTC 2023), Entry for Josiah Woodham and Ella A Woodham, 1900.
- ↑ "United States Census, 1910", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MKQW-LCF : Fri Oct 06 20:49:39 UTC 2023), Entry for Joe S Woodham and Augusta E Woodham, 1910.
- ↑ "United States Census, 1920", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXZ8-9J9 : Sat Nov 11 18:32:34 UTC 2023), Entry for Josiah Woodham and Augusta Woodham, 1920.
- ↑ "United States Census, 1930", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:3XZT-QMM : Thu Oct 05 03:32:05 UTC 2023), Entry for Ira T Moore and Merle Moore, 1930.
- ↑ "United States Census, 1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V1LC-5BR : Tue Nov 28 18:26:19 UTC 2023), Entry for Leon Herring and Era M Herring, 1940.
- ↑ "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVVS-MMHY : 26 July 2019), Josiah Woodham, 1942; Burial, Babbie, Covington, Alabama, United States of America, Bethel Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery; citing record ID 6585793, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Josiah by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Josiah:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Josiah by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Josiah:
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~12.50%
Howard Denton
:
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~6.25%
~25.00%
Gina Hamilton :
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~3.12%
~12.50%
Don Bentley :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member rdrdon
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~3.12%
~6.25%
Ann Flandermeyer :
AncestryDNA
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~1.56%
Hoke Woodham :
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~1.56%
~6.25%
Janice (Merrill) Johnt :
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