Submitted by Bunny Freeman (no family connection)

Confederate Veteran magazine Sept. 1902 Vol. X #9

Capt. J. F. Woodward died at his home in Hamilton County, Tex., December 18, 1901. He was born in Wayne County, Tenn., in 1836. His parents moved to Mississippi in 1840, where the father died two years later, and his mother returned to Tennessee, and there passed away in 1845. Captain Woodward then returned to Mississippi, but in 1859 he went to Texas, and entered into mercantile business at Cusseta (Cass Co., TX.) In September 1861, he was made first lieutenant of a company known as the Lone Star Rifles. He participated in the battle of Shiloh, and afterwards, being discharged, went to Alabama, where he raised a company of cavalry, becoming its captain. This was Company B of the Fifth Alabama Cavalry, and served with Forest most of the time.

Captain Woodward made his home in Hamilton County, Tex., May 22, 1878. He was twice married. First to Miss Henrietta Smith, who died in 1894; and in 1896 he was married to Miss Julia Witherspoon, of Bessemer, Ala. Captain Woodward was one of the large landowners of Hamilton County, and did much to improve the locality and introduce new settlers.

1900 Hamilton County, Texas census has the abbreviated name listed above as James.