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Calvin Woods (abt. 1855 - aft. 1937)

Calvin (Cal) Woods
Born about in North Carolina, United Statesmap [uncertain]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of — married 20 Mar 1899 in Prairie, Arkansas, United Statesmap
Descendants descendants
Died after after about age 82 in Arkansas, United Statesmap
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Profile last modified | Created 28 Jun 2022
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Biography

US Black Heritage Project
Cal Woods is a part of US Black heritage.

Cal Woods was interviewed in Biscoe, Arkansas in about 1937 about his life and his time as an enslaved person.

"I don't know zactly how old I is. I was good size boy when the war come on. We all belonged to a man named John Woods. We lived in South Carolina during slavery."

"My mother's name was Sylvia and papa's name was Hack Woods."

"I come to Arkansas so my little boys would have a home. I had a little home and sold it to come out here."

Slave Owners

  1. John Woods

Interview: Cal Woods was interviewed in Biscoe, Arkansas by Miss Irene Robertson as part of the Federal Writer's Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The results are made available by the Library of Congress. [1]


Sources

  1. [1] Library of Congress - WPA - Slave Narrative - Cal Woods - Vol. 2, Arkansas, part 7; pages 229-231 images 234-236 of 262.
  • "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XMG7-68Y : accessed 28 June 2022), Calvin Woods in household of Dossy Woods, Lower Surrounded Hill, Prairie, Arkansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 11, sheet 10B, line 83, family 127, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 90; FHL microfilm 2,339,825.


Research Notes

Could this be a marriage of a daughter of Cal's? If it is, his first wife was named Sue Mullen. "North Carolina Marriages, 1759-1979", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F832-ZXV : 14 February 2020), Cal Woods in entry for Jas. Ed Harris, 1893.





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