John T. Woodward
John T. Woodward, farmer, P. O. Deerfield, was born in Fayette County, Penn., in 1830, son of Amos and Mary (Mallaby) Woodward, natives of Pennsylvania, who settled in Milton Township, Trumbull County, in 1848, thence removed to Palmyra, Portage Co., Ohio, where Mr. Woodward died in 1856. His widow resides on the homestead, the mother of eight children: Mary, wife of M. Sutton; John, married to Lucinda Wilcox (have two children: Alice A. and Blanche); William, married to Cornelia AVilcox (have six children: Rowland, Cora, Mary E., Maud E., Joseph and Gertie); Elizabeth, widow of William Earnest (have three children: Reuben, Oliver and William); Albert, married to Julia Westover (their children are Ransom and Jane); Eliza J., wife of Evan Jones; Amos, married to Martha Jenkins (have two children: Wallace and Lemuel); Richard, married to Sarah Wilson (have two children: Conas E. and Archibald). Of these John and William settled on the present estate of 300 acres in Deerfield Township in 1864. Politically they are Republicans. They rank among the enterprising farmers of the county.
From History of Portage County, Ohio, Warner, Beers & Co., Chicago, 1885