Enos Woodward (1792 - 1850)

Born 4 Apr 1792 in Mason County, Kentucky

Ancestors

Died 15 Aug 1850 at age 58 in Chester County, Pennsylvania

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Biography

Enos Woodward was born to William and Sarah Snodgrass Woodward in Mason County on 4 Apr 1792.^[1]

Enos studied theology, perhaps at Augusta College, of which he was a member of the Board of Trustees in 1826.^[2]

Enos was ordained as a priest in the Episcopal Church.

Enos married Sarah Murphy on 11 Oct 1810. ^[3] Enos being under age 21, his mother Elizabeth Woodward attested her permission on 6 Oct 1810.^[4]

In the 1820 Federal census, Enos is counted in Bracken County, Kentucky, with his wife, two sons(?) 10-15, another under 10, two daughters under 10, and several others who could not have been their children: a free white man 16-25, a free colored man, a free white woman 16-25, and two female slaves age 14-25.^[5]

Enos and Sarah resided at "Woodward's Crossroads" in Bracken county until about 1828, when they removed to Washington in Mason County.^[3]

In the 1830 Federal census, Enos is counted in Washington, Mason County, Kentucky, with his wife, three sons(?) 15-19, 10-14, under 5, and five daughters(?) 15-19, 10-14, 6-9, and two under 5.^[6]

Enos and Sarah removed to Steubenville in 1831, then to Pittsburgh in 1835.

Enos and Sarah had, here and there:^[3]

• Thomas Caldwell, b. 21 Oct 1811, d. 5 Aug 1814
• Maria, b. 16 Feb 1814, m. in 1833 william Duane Wilson of Steubenville, d. 1834
• William Holdman, b. 5 Nov 1816, a Philadelphia merchant
• Harriet, b. 30 Mar 1819, m. in Pittsburgh in 1837 the Rev. William Willey Arnett, born 1815, later Recto r of St. Paul's Church in Milwaukee
• Minerva, b. 31 Dec 1821, m. in 1842 William P. Young of Pittsburgh and then Milwaukee
• James Armstrong. b. 17 Sep 1824, Protestant Episcopal Clergyman and a missionary at La Fayette, Oregon
• Mary Jane, b. 14 Feb 1927, m. in 1849, Henry D. Torry of Washington, Pennsylvania, the Philadelphia
• Ann Elizabeth, b. 25 Aug 1829 in Washington, Kentucky, m.in 1852 Franklin H. Leavenworth of Scranton in Wilkes-Barre, died in 1908
• Enos S., b. 1 June 1833 in Steubenville, settled in Philadelphia.

Sarah died in Pittsburgh on 6 June 1841, and was buried there in the Methodist Protestant graveyard.^[3]

Enos then married Mrs. Rebecca W. Griffith (born about 1794) in Wheeling, (soon-to-be West) Virginia, on 28 Dec 1842.^[7]

In early 1845, he took on the Rectorship of Chester, Pennsylvania's two Protestant Episcopal parishes, St. Andrew's and St. Mary's.^[3] There Enos started a second family with Rebecca. ^[8]

• George, b. abt. 1844
• Henry B., b. abt 1846
• Rebecca, b. abt 1847
• Joseph R., also reportedly b. 21 Mar 1847 in Chester.^[3]

Rev. Enos Woodward died 15 August 1850 in Chester, still Rector of the two churches there, reportedly of apoplexy .^[9]

Sources

1. ↑ Monument inscription in Woodlands Cemetery, Philadelphia, photo'd and transcribed on FindaGrave # 138592686.
2. ↑ 1826 By-laws of Augusta College, Kentucky, 1826 viewed on ancestry.com
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5} Bond, Henry, Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown Massachusetts, including Waltham and Weston; to which is appended the Early History of the Town, Vol. II, p. 974
4. ↑ : Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954, database with images, FamilySearch
5. ↑ 1820 Federal Census, Bracken County, Kentucky, photocopy of original viewed on ancestry.com ($).
6. ↑ 1830 Federal Census, Mason county, Kentucky, photocopy of original viewed on ancestry.com ($).
7. ↑ "West Virginia Marriages, 1853–1970." Index. FamilySearch, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2008, 2009, online datatbase viewed on ancestry.com($)
8. ↑ 1850 federal census, Chester, Pennsylvania, photocopy of original viewed on ancestry.com ($). Enos is identified as an Episcopal clergyman. Others in their household were Deborah Smith, age 40, apparently black, and John Achornwald (or A. Tornwald?), age 14, presumably live-in servants, plus children.
9. ↑ Monument inscription in Woodlands Cemetery, Philadelphia, photo'd and transcribed on FindaGrave # 138592686.