Mary Woody

D.A.R. Book gives Mary Laughlin and four of her daughters as Patriotic Heroines.

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Birth: Sep. 4, 1717 New Garden Chester County Pennsylvania, USA Death: May 21, 1795 Orange County North Carolina, USA

The daughter of James Lindley and Eleanor Parke of County Carlow, Ireland.

Mary was a Quaker and according to the New Garden Monthly Meeting minutes, Chester Co, PA pg, 280-282, Mary was disowned by the Quakers for marrying out of unity, ( marrying a non Quaker). Apparently, her husband John converted to the Religious Society of Friends (commonly known as Quakers) upon moving to North Carolina where he and his wife found a local community willing to accept them into the fold.

They had the following children: Eleanor, Hannah, Mary, Robert, James, Samuel, Joshua, Joseph, William, Ruth, and John IV.

Parents:  James Lindley (1681 - 1726) and   Eleanor Parke Lindley Jones (1684 - 1736)

Children:

1. John W. Woody (1715 - 1762)
2. James Woody (1744 - 1822)
3. Joseph Woody (1748 - 1815)
4. Ruth Woody Thompson (1751 - 1810)
5. John W Woody (1758 - 1842)

Siblings:

1. William Lindly (____ - 1726)**
2. Thomas Lindley (1706 - 1781)
3. Mary Lindley Woody (1717 - 1795)
4. Sarah Jane Jones Jones (1732 - 1801)**

• *Half-sibling

Inscription: John W. Woody and Wife. Pioneer Settlers and Parents of the Woody Family South.

Burial: Spring Monthly Meeting Cemetery Snow Camp Alamance County North Carolina, USA

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