Creed Taylor Woodson Jr.

Creed Taylor Woodson Jr.

• Father: Creed Taylor Woodson b. 11 September 1801, d. 7 February 1857
• Mother: Mary Laurence Cook b. 22 July 1815, d. 17 July 1890

• Creed Taylor Woodson Jr. was born circa 1840 in Georgia.
• Creed Taylor Woodson and Mary Laurence Cook appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1850 in Houston County, Georgia. Other members of the household included Creed Taylor Woodson Jr., Phillip Tscharner Woodson, William Henry Woodson, Miller Alexander Woodson, Lucy Woodson, Martha Cook Woodson, John C. Woodson and Mary E. Woodson.
• Mary Laurence Cook appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Montgomery County, Texas. Other members of the household included Creed Taylor Woodson Jr., William Henry Woodson, Martha Cook Woodson, Lucy Woodson, John C. Woodson, Mary E. Woodson, C. J. Woodson and S. L. Woodson.
• C. T. Woodson enlisted as a private on 2 August 1861 near Harrisburg in Capt. R. M. Powell's Company of Texas Volunteers (later Company D, 5th Texas Infantry Regiment), and rose to the rank of 2nd corporal. Following a lengthy hospitalization in Richmond and a 90-day furlough, he was transferred to the Cavalry on 10 July 1863 by Gen. K. Smith, and served as a 1st lieutenant in Capt. Robert S. Poole's Company (A), 24th & 25th Texas Cavalry Consolidated, (originally assigned to Mann's Regiment), until certified on 21 April 1865 by Acting Surgeon J. B. Holland as unfit to perform the duties of a soldier in the field by reaason of orchitis & chronic nephritis, with the recommendation that he be discharged from service or assigned to light duty. He signed his parole in Houston on 14 July 1865.
  
• He married Ophelia Frances (?) circa 1863.
• On 26 February 1863, W. B."Bose" Campbell wrote home from near Richmond, Virginia, to his aunt Evelina Wood in Montgomery County, Texas: ". . . The boys are generally very healthy. Dick Hardy is
  fat and looking fine. George Yoakum ought to have
  a discharge, he is in Richmond with the scrofula.
  Creed Woodson is also there with a disease of the
  kidneys. Wm. Lewis is in camp fat as a bear.
  I gave the things to Fuller. He is very proud of them
  and is under many obligations to you. I have not
  seen Stanton yet. I have fallen off ten pounds
  since I have been to camp. I cant say much
  for my self as I love home too much ever to be satisfied
  any where else. . . ."
• Creed Taylor Woodson Jr. and Ophelia Frances (?) appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1870 in Montgomery PO, Montgomery County, Texas. Other members of the household included Mary E. Woodson and Peter S. Woodson.
• He was a farmer, according to the 1870 census.

• Last Edited: 22 Feb 2013