Raleigh Gazette, 17 April 1897.

Rev. W.T.H. Woodward’s surname often appears as “Woodard,” which suggests roots in what is now Wilson County. However, he is apparently absent from Wilson County census records and appears only sparingly elsewhere, such as the listed officiant on marriage licenses between 1892 and 1898. (See, for example, Alex Warren and Ida Davis in 1896 and Jordan Taylor and Eliza Taylor in 1897.) When he, as a 31 year-old, married Martha S. Paschall in Warren County, N.C., in 1881, he listed his residence as Greensboro, N.C. In 1898, when he married Mollie J. Paschall in Vance County, he listed Halifax County as his home. The family is found in Littleton, Halifax County, in the 1910 census, and I have not found Woodward after.