BIRTHS
EDITOR'S NOTE: when you hear of a birth in our family, please let us know the details so we can print an article about this happy event in the family newsletters and add the info to our Family Library. Tell us the child's complete name, when and where born; full names of the parents; full names of both sets of grandparents and where they all live; name of the hospital where born; how much the newborn weighed and size if possible. Also names of the child's sisters and brothers.
YOKOHAMA, Japan--I have always enjoyed writing about the fact that our Woodham family has become a "world-wide" family in modern times. Talk about being a scattered family--but we are now living throughout the United States as well as numerous countries in Europe, Asia, the America's, and Africa. Here's a good example:
Daniel Lamar ("Woody"; "Dan") Woodham Jr. and his wife Hisae are proud to annouce the birth of their second child, Marshall Sho Woodham, born 28 Nov., 1997 at 10:35 AM, at Kuramoto Hospital in Yokohama City, Japan. Marshall weighed in at 3,550 grams (as Woody said "how many pounds is that?) and is 55 centimeters long (and he added "How many inches is that?").
Dan is a native of Montgomery, Alabama and the son of Daniel Lamar ("Dan") Woodham Sr. and Sally Irvin Brislin. He is a grandson of the late James Lamar Woodham, a native of Dale County, Ala. and Essie Lamana (Lamana) Thrasher. He is a great grandson of James Henry Woodham and Eula Aldonia Whitlock, both natives of Dale County, Ala. who both died in Columbus, Ga.. He is a great great grandson of John Wesley Woodham and Almedia Hobbs; great great great grandson of Steven Moses Woodham and Sarah Amanda Jane Galloway (who was the daughter of Elizabeth Woodham and Edward James Galloway and a granddau. of Athanasius Woodham). He is a gggg grandson of Aris Woodham Jr. and Caron H. Riley; ggggg grandson of Aris Woodham Sr. and Rachel Beasley; 6th great grandson of Edward Woodham Jr. and Mary; 7th great grandson of Edward Woodham Sr. and Eleanor.
Dan is a graduate of Auburn University and is now working for a Japanese company which works in automotive designs for several Japanese auto companies. He has been in Yokohama since 1990. His wife Hisae Kuwana was born on the Island of Guam, an American territory in the western Pacific Ocean. He and Hisae have a daughter, Courtney Maki Woodham born in 1995.
ATLANTA, Ga.-- David Hulon Woodham Jr. and his wife Helen have just notified us about the birth of their daughter, Nancy Gray (called Gray) who was born during the world Olympics , 31 July, 1996.
Gray was born at Northside Hospital on Atlanta's northside. David sent along a photo of Gray made this last November. Cute cousin! David's wife is Ruth Ellen (Ellen) Rollins, daughter of Gary William Rollins and Ruthie Magnasson. She is the granddaughter of the late Orville Wayne Rollins of Ringgold, Ga., one of the co-founder's of the Rollins Company, a major Atlanta business and the parent company of Orkin Pest Control.
David is the son of David Hulon Woodham Sr., a native of Dothan, Al. and Deanna Floyd. He is a grandson of James Fletcher (Fletcher) Woodham and Sallie Mae Roney of Dothan; great grandson of Wiley Eveatus Woodham and Mary Leanora Fuller; great great grandson of James Travis Woodham and Harriett Brewer; g.g.g. grandson of Reddick Woodham and Clarissa Goff; g.g.g.g grandson of Athanasius ("Atha") Woodham and Mary Kelly; 5th great grandson of Aris Woodham Sr. and Rachel Beasley; 6th great grandson of Edward Woodham Jr. and Mary; 7th great grandson of Edward Woodham Sr. and Eleanor.
Lisa Michele Taylor and her husband Dennis Andre' Bergeron announce the birth of their son, Luke Andre', born 29 Aug., 1997. Sorry, we don't have details about where Luke was born nor where Lisa and her husband now live.
Luke is the grandson of Alfred Dozier Taylor and his wife Dorothy Janet Siegle; he is a great grandson of Dozier Wilson Taylor of Plant City, Fla. and his late wife, Flora Annie Wiggins, both originally from Covington County, Alabama. Luke is the great great grandson of Nancy Edna Woodham and William John Taylor; ggg grandson of Robert Nelson Woodham and Sarah Ann Elizabeth Wiggins; gggg grandson of Aris Woodham and Rebecca Smith; 5th great grandson of Athanasius ("Atha") Woodham and Mary Ann Kelly; 6th great grandson of Aris Woodham Sr. and Rachel Beasley; 7th great grandson of Edward Woodham Jr. and Mary; and 8th great grandson of Edward Woodham Sr. and Eleanor.
to Woodham Journal Front page to Woodham Family Association HOME page18 June, 1998