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There can be few names associated with English genealogy as well known as Burke's. Of the three great Burke's volumes produced on American families, this present one is generally thought to be the most authoritative. Hundreds of pedigrees are included, each beginning with the living subject and showing his descent from the earliest known forebear.
John Lucius Woods (b.1912) is the son of George Benjamin Woods (1878- 1958) and Helen Smith (1881-1956) of Oxford, Butler Co., Ohio. He is the descendant of James Woods (1767-1869) the emigrant, who was born at St. James Park, London, England and settled in Darke Co., Ohio and his wife, Rebecca Peden (1780-1855), the daughter of Obadiah Peden and Esther Dunn of York Co., PA. He married Mary Torkilson in 1938 at Evanston, Ill. Thirteen generations of ancestors are traced.
Includes inclusive "Errata for the Linage book."