COUNTY NAME: Barry

NAME: George Washington Woodard

BIRTH DATE: 1805

DEATH DATE:1862

CEMETERY NAME: Roller Cemetery

INSCRIPTION: No Stone

BUSHWHACKER STORY: George Washington Woodard, called "Wash" was killed (hanged) by "bushwhackers" during the Civil War.

According to the family story, a group of these men came to his farm and asked him, "What side are you on?" 

Apparently Wash gave the wrong answer (what was the correct reply?). He was then hanged in front of his family.

The men then took everything the family owned including their cows. Wash was then taken down, wrapped in a quilt and buried at Roller Cemetery, however, his grave apparently went unmarked, because no stone has been located.

NOTES: Wash is my great great grandfather. I remember, as a child, my mother telling stories about him and his son, my great grandfather, "Dolly" Woodard. Dolly's daughter, Minnie, who married Robert Williams, is my grandmother. She and Robert are buried at Simsberry Cemetery.

Name: Joyce Snell