F. M. WOOLARD was born January 1835, near where the village of Mulberry Grove now stands, in Bond County, Ill. He is the son of Rev. James B. Woolard, a Methodist minister, well known in Southern Illinois.
James B., the son of Willoughby and Rebecca (Fatheree) Woolard, was born December 16, 1804, in Beauford County, N.C. removed with his parents to Tennessee 1810, and settled soon after on Leeper's Creek Maury County, where he married Mary, daughter of Abraham and Nancy (Brown) McCurley, March 15 1827; removed to Greenville, Illl. with a "spike team" (the wheel horses were oxen) in 1829, and to his present location in 1831. He was a Bugler in Black Hawk war; represented Bond County in the Legislature in 1844-45; and was Chaplain in the One Hundred and Eleventh Illinois Volunteer Infantry in the late war. His brothers,
Mary (mater) was born March 24, 1805, in Allen County, Ky., and with her parents moved to Tennessee, where she was married. She lived with her husband for more than fifty-six years, and died August 20. 1883, having been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church over sixty-six years.
To James and Mary were born six children -
Abraham's father, was of Scotch descent, and slain in the Revolutionary war. Nancy was a niece of Judge Brown, of Kentucky. Wiloughby, the son, of John, was born in North Carolina in 1761, and died at the age of eighty-five years, in Fayette County, Ill. His brothers were
John (patter), the son of John, was born in 1695, and died in 1800.. His nephew, Aligood, of Lebanon, Tenn., died in 1868, aged one hundred and fifteen years.
The first John was an Englishman, an early settler in North Carolina, and a tradition has been handed down in the family that he sold his peltries,, the result of. one winter's hunting, for his hat full of silver. His brother settled in the northern colonies, and his descendants are called " Willard."
Rebecca, born in Massachusetts in 1771, was the daughter of Maj. Fatheree, who was killed in the Revolutionary war. She remembered the British soldiers plundering her mother's house, leaving the family destitute. She was for seventy years a Regular Baptist and died in Polk County, Mo., in 1862, amid trying scenes, very similar to those of her early childhood.
Subject was raised a farmer, attended school in winter; remembers when wolves, deer and panthers were common; attended the academy in Greenville; McKendree College, in Lebanon; taught school over three years; was Deputy County Clerk in Vandalia; six years a circuit preacher, and four years Superintendent of Schools in Wayne County.
Subject was married November 9, 1859, to Miss Margaret, daughter of William J. Crews, of Palestine, Ill., and to them were born
The mother, Capt. W. W., and Mary S. lie buried on the spot where the first church was built, in the east part of Bond County.
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