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by Carolyn Woods Kerley
Descendants of Omer Cleveland
and Angero Susan Lee Woods gathered at Mother Neff State Park (http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/park/mother/mother.htm)
in their memory, Saturday Oct. 27, 2001. Omer was the eldest son of Cleveland and Jennie
Kirkland Woods. Susan was the daughter of Marvin Err & Claudia
Mable Lawrence Lee. Omer & Susan are buried at Buckhorn Cemetery
southwest of Moody.
Omer was born at Oglesby. He
attended school at Turnersville for while. He loved to play baseball
at Mother Neff with his friends and had a very strong left pitching
arm. He was a master at 42. We will always remember his laughter.
Susan was born in the beautiful old Baugh Mansion west of Moody and
lived there until sometime after she was 2 years old. She attended
Willow Grove School, Fields School also knows as Tick Hill, Buckhorn.
She walked to school and had to cross the Leon River on a suspension
bridge. Graduated from The Grove. In her later life she loved talking
about her childhood and her family.
Children of Cleveland and
Jennie Woods were Omer, Ethel, Calvin, Margaret, Edna, Cecil, Nadine,
Geneva, and FLoyd. Children of Claudia and Marvin Lee: Mable, Johnnie,
Thomas, Forest, Susan, Burma, and Pauline. To Omer and Susan were born
Joyce E., Joe C., Carolyn R., Rita S., and Reginald E.
This Woods line descended from
Andrew 1680-1729 & Elizabeth Frame Woods of Northern Ireland.
Andrew died in British West Indes but Elizabeth and child Joseph made
it to SC where she later died. Joseph's son Thomas was in Kentucky in
1804 but went on to Alabama where he died. He was a revolutionary
officer and a member of the SC Provencial Congress. Through many
hardships this family made it's way to Texas. Andrew, son of Thomas,
b. 1797 in SC died in Wesley, Washington Co., TX in 1876 was the 2nd
gr-grandfather of Omer C. Woods. Andrew's son William Degrafton
arrived in Texas around 1857 and settled in Washington Co, TX. William
later moved to the Oglesby area and died there in 1897. He is buried
in the Comanche Springs Cemetery outside of McGregor.
Marvin Err Lee was the son of
James Timothy & Susan Tennessee McMellan Lee. J. T. & Susan
came to the Moody area from Crooked Creek Arkansas in the late 1800's.
He purchased land that is called Lee Bottom or Horseshoe Bend in March
of 1898. The land is on the northernmost end of Lake Belton where the
Leon River flows into it. Approx 7 miles west of Moody and just SW of
Mother Neff State Park. This beautiful land is now managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. J.T. and Susan are buried at Buckhorn.
Marvin Err Lee and Claudia Mable Lawrence Lee are buried at Eagle
Springs Cemetery.
The host for the occasion were
Reginald and Vera Woods of Taylor. Reginald Woods of Taylor offered
the prayer. The theme was red, white, & blue with the American
flag flying over the patio of the Recreation Hall.
Approximately 50 from all over
Texas attended. Those that traveled farthest were Forest Jr. and Helen
Lee of Seminole. JR is son of Forest & Margaret (Polly) Woods Lee.
Also Woods of Taylor & Dallas; Cox family of Moody; Kerley of
Austin, Castroville, Killeen, & Temple; Corsentino's of
Georgetown; Burts & friends of Temple; Jarvis of Bryan. Jim &
Joanne Shelton from Ft Worth. Charles Schaefer of McGregor; Margeson
of Austin.
The 2002 host will be Don
& Gayla Corsentino of Georgetown, Kathy & JR Woods of Taylor,
Rev. Joe & LeeAnn Woods of Dallas.
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