William Augustus Dewoody

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Husband William Augustus Dewoody

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            AKA: William H. DeWoody 1
           Born: 27 Oct 1842 1
     Christened: 
           Died: 29 Jul 1859
 Cause of Death: Drowning
         Buried:  - Old Sandy Cemetery, Sandycreek Twp, Venango Co, PA 2

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         Father: William Dewoody (1807-1883) 3 4 5 6 7
         Mother: Mary "Polly" Foster (1817-      ) 3 8 9 10

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Wife

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General Notes: Husband - William Augustus Dewoody

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He drowned in the Allegheny River when a young man.

The cemetery record book gives his date of death and his age, giving a date of birth of Jan 1, 1843.

1 Virginia Gordon Russell, The DeWoody Family of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Cochranton, PA: Specialty Printers, 1981.), Pg 10.

2 Venango County Historical Society, Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and Early Church Histories, Vol. 8, Sandycreek Township (Franklin, PA: Venango County Historical Society, 1999), Pg 69.

3 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 493.

4 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 676, 1026.

5 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 539, 577.

6 Virginia Gordon Russell, The DeWoody Family of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Cochranton, PA: Specialty Printers, 1981.), Pg 9.

7 Newton Edward Brightwell, DeWoody Records (Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, Inc., 1989), Pg 79, 91.

8 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 1026.

9 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 577.

10 Newton Edward Brightwell, DeWoody Records (Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, Inc., 1989), Pg 91.