Woodward-Mattson Family Newsletter

A newsletter for the descendants of John Jackson Woodward (1812-1875) and his wife Hannah Mattson Woodward (1816-1894) of Kennett Township, Chester County, PA was published beginning in 1981. Between 1981 and 1984, there were two issues per year . No issues appeared in 1985. From 1986 to 1999 one annual issue appeared. Some regular features in the Newsletter included a listing of births, marriages, and deaths, profiles of family members, and a Here and There column of significant happenings and achievements of living family members. Since 1990, details of the annual reunion picnic were also included. Below is a listing of some features appearing in the respective Newsletters. To order at $5 per issue, send an email.

JAN 1981 Origins of Woodward name; Censuses of 1830-1880 for John J. Woodward; profiles of Gary Keating Woodward, Stephen Abbe Thomas, Roland Henry Woodward, and Theodora Pearl Woodward McCarns.

JUN 1981 Epitaph of John J. Woodward in Longwood Cemetery; newspaper mentions 1877-1881 of Albert, Darwin, and Theodore Woodward; profiles of Jeanne Woodward Menges, Mark Eugene Waltz, Jr., Kathy Lynn Kirn, George Robert Abbe.

JAN 1982 Sketches of ancestors of John J. Woodward: William, Samuel, Thomas, Richard, and Robert;. newspaper mentions 1881-1882 of activities of farmers Albert, Darwin, and Theodore Woodward; profiles of Albert Thompson Woodward and Frederick Lewis Goodman.

JUL 1982 Recount of June '82 Reunion; ancestry of Hannah Mattson Woodward (1816-1894); profiles of Sarah Woodward Ross and John M. Davis.

JAN 1983 Bolton ancestry; newspaper clippings 1882-1885 about Albert, Darwin, and Theodore Woodward; profiles of Helen Moore Raimato and George Paul Mercer.

JUN 1983 Walmsley and Titus ancestries; newspaper clippings 1886 about Albert, Darwin, and Theodore Woodward; profiles of Ruth Woodward Krebs and Robert Carey Goodman, Jr.

FEB 1984 Visit to site of Battle of Hastings and Wadard Knight history; 1839 letter from Washington Bolton Woodward to his parents William and Sarah Bolton Woodward;; profile of Washington Bolton Woodward; Jackson ancestry.

JUN 1984 Miller ancestry; donation of earliest photo of John Jackson Woodward to Chester County Historical Society; family newspaper clippings 1887-1888.

JUN 1986 Kennett Square residence of John Jackson Woodward; profile of Theodora Pearl Woodward McCarns (1898-1986), last grandchild of John Jackson Woodward to die.

JUN 1987 1874-75 diary of John Jackson Woodward (1812-1875); photo album of Hannah Mattson Woodward (1880-1890 era); sale of John Jackson Woodward homestead with photo.

JUN 1988 1920 Woodward-Mattson-Thatcher reunion photo; profile of siblings of Hannah Mattson Woodward (1816-1894); c. 1880 letter from Hannah Mattson Woodward to her son, Theodore Bolton Woodward; chart of descendants of Levi Mattson II (1788-1839) and his wife Rebecca Hewes Mattson (1789-1837).

AUG 1989 The Wadard Knight, c. 1066; search for Isaac William Woodward (1817-1872) and his descendants; photo and obituary of Sally Bolton Woodward Stiles (1844-1896) of Denver, CO; chart of two generations of descendants of Levi Mattson II (1788-1839) and Rebecca Hewes Mattson (1789-1887).

JUN 1990 More information about Isaac William Woodward; profiles of Roland McCullough Woodward and Charles Dudley Mattson; mathematical puzzle by Helen Mattson Woodward (1884-1980); 1888 letter to Hannah Mattson Woodward from Quaker friend, Sidney P. Curtis, living in San Francisco.

AUG 1991 Memoir of Robert Stephen Mercer (1912-1992); profile of Horace Thompson Woodward; visit to Midwest Mattsons: H. Frazyer Mattson, M.D., Anne Shellabarger Abbott; Lloyd ("Buz") H. Mattson, Jr., Jack Heald, Sally Swisher Coyne, Jane Mattson Edgerly, and Mary Shellabarger Cleve; update on search for descendants of Isaac William Woodward; living male descendants of John Jackson Woodward with Woodward surname; connection of our ancestor Rebecca Hewes Mattson to Joseph Hewes, signer of the Declaration of Independence from North Carolina; chart of three generations of descendants of continuing lines from Levi Mattson II and Rebecca Hewes Mattson.

JUL 1992 Obituaries of Roland McCullough Woodward and Jack Heald; letter-to-the-editor by Theodore Bolton Woodward, dated 13 Feb. 1912; update on search for descendants of Isaac William Woodward; profiles of Theodore Robert Woodward and Phyllis Woodward Gray; chart and profiles of the descendants of Sarah Mattson Thatcher (1817-1881); sale of Woodward T-shirts by Jean Ross.

AUG 1993 Requiem for John Jackson Woodward Homestead (1835-1992) with photo; profile and chart of descendants of Isaac William Woodward (1817-1872), brother to JJW; profiles of James Robert Woodward and Sidney Darlington; profile and chart of the descendants of Edwin Mattson (1839-1929); recipe for June Waterman's Grape Pie.

JUL 1994 1812 William Woodward-Sarah Bolton wedding certificate facsimile donated by Sarah Woodward Ross; 1893 letter from Hannah Mattson Woodward to brother Levi Mattson III; chart and profile of descendants of Charles Henry Mattson (1824-1863), brother to HMW; profiles of Thomas Bruce Mercer and John and Frederick Maxwell Page; Ann Woodward Rumford's recipe for Chicken Wings Pacific; excerpts from History of Chester County by Futhey and Cope about Richard Woodward (1673-1748) and Thomas Woodward (1722-1785); newspaper clippings, 1845, 1848, 1849, about Peter Worrall Mattson.

SEP 1995 Our Irish Quaker ancestors: Jackson, Miller, and Kirk families; 1851 letter from Thomas Mattson (1800-1866) to his spinster niece, Rebecca Mattson, (1819-1894), sister to our ancestor, Hannah Mattson Woodward; profiles of Suzanne Woodward Whiteman and Alfred Howard Woodward; memoir by Deborah Davis Kendig (1939-1998) of her grandmother, Cora Woodward Mercer (1871-1963); profile and chart of descendants of William Henry Mattson, DVM (1849-1928); memoir by John Jackson Woodward II (1903-1979) of his grandfather, John Jackson Woodward I, going to market in Philadelphia; newspaper account, 25 Aug 1877 of Paris Green poisoning of Darwin Woodward; listing of distaff names of Woodward ancestors.

JUL 1996 Tribute to Ella Matson Lindsay (1919-1996); Will of Morris Mattson dated 21 May 1776; chart and profile of descendants of Levi Mattson III (1821-1915), brother to our ancestor, Hannah Mattson Woodward; profiles of Ann Woodward Rumford, with photo, and Ralph Hampton Woodward, with photo; 3-Bean Casserole recipe by Janice Woodward Hoag and Hobo Bean recipe by Ruth Woodward Krebs; essay, "Music, Friendship Make the Good Life" by George Paul Mercer.

AUG 1997 Chart and profile of the descendants of Albert Mattson Woodward (1839-1926); Civil War unit of Theodore Bolton Woodward (1843-1916); recipe for Gladys Woodward's Peach-Orange Marmelade; profiles with photos of Helen Stebbins Woodward Moore and Robert Frederick Mattson; Thatcher genealogy written by Anne Shellabarger Abbott.

JUN 1998 Chart and profile of descendants of Adolphus Darwin Woodward (1841-1929); profiles with photos of Doreen Woodward Sonchen and Frederick L. Goodman; 1934 Reo car by Robert F. Mattson.

JUL 1999 Theodore Bolton Woodward & Descendants; Washington Bolton Woodward, Jr., Photo; E.A. Poe "Raven" About Mattson! By Peter H. Mattson; Here and There; Final Words

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