Honea-Worley Family History Award for Scholarship

IV. Sample Narrative

The Ancestors of Oscar Herman Woodward
["Stripped Down" narrative to be used as a format model]

The stripped family history below is to be used as an example of the Sosa–Stradonitz numbering system (you will notice that the bold Arabic numerals correspond to the numbers on the pedigree chart sample). Although must of the footnotes or endnotes are genealy indicated by superscript numerals, here the endnotes are numbered within brackets [#].   Since this is a "Stripped Down" sample only a small selection of endnotes are  are printed here. The biographical material on each family should contain such things as occupations, residence(s), land purchases, etc.

CHAPTER 1

[an introduction to your family, placing it in its geographical and community enviors

CHAPTER 2: Generation One

1. Oscar Herman Woodward, son of Daniel Russell Woodward and Laura  Davis, was born 18 January 1880 in Franklin, New Hampshire,[1] and died 25 August 1962 in Bellows Falls, Vermont.[2] He married  in Watertown, Massachusetts, 28 September 1907, Sara Waddell.[3]   Sara was born 25 December 1881 in Maitland, Nova Scotia, Canada, daughter of Joseph Howe Waddell and Elizabeth McDougall,[4] and  died 1 July 1955 in Hartford, Connecticut.[5]

Sample biographical material on this couple
In 1905  Sara Waddell was working at an orphanage in Franklin, New Hampshire. One of her co-workers asked her to join her family for dinner one evening and that is when she met her future husband Oscar H. Woodward. Oscar was smitten over the beautiful young lady and after some time persuaded Sara to become his wife.[6]

In 1917, the United States broke off relations with Germany and declared war agains Germany shortly after. At the time the U.S. army was rather small and in May 1917 the U.S. Congress passed the first of three conscription acts.  The third conscription act required all men between the ages 18 and 21 and between 31 and 45 to register on September 7, 1918.  Consequently, at the age of thirty-eight Oscar registered for the World War I draft at Franklin, New Hampshire.[7] At that time he was a traveling car agent for the Boston and Maine Rail Road whose head quarters were in North Station, Boston, Massachusetts.

Children of Oscar Herman and Sarah (Waddell) Woodward (all born in Franklin, New Hampshire) were:

  i.  Virginia Woodward was born 15 October 1908, and married in Concord, N.H., 15 September 1934 George Mason Smith. She resides in Bloomfield, Connecticut.[8]
 ii. Richard Woodward was born 26 May 1910,[9] and died 8 March 1970. He married in Concord, N.H., 20 July 1931, Bernice Iris Ford.[10] They had four children.
iii. Douglas Woodward was born 4 October 1911. He married, first, in New Castle, N.H., 11 July 1936 Geraldine Haywood, and married, second, in Hampton Falls, N.H., 11 November 1986 Mrs. Beverly (Swain) Powell.[11]
Doublas and Geraldine had four children
 iv. Oscar Herman Woodward, Junior, was born 1 January 1915,[12] and died 4 June 1965.[13] He married in Chichester, N.H., 20 September 1940 Josephine Emma Perkins.[14] Oscar and Josephine had four children

CHAPTER 3: Generation Two

2. Daniel Russell Woodward, son of Daniel S. Woodward and Dorcas Adams, was born 10 april 1833 in Salisbury, New Hampshire, and died 6 January 1910 in Fanklin, New Hamphisre[15] He married in Lowell, Massachusetts, 30 January 1854

3. Laura Davis, daughter of Lewis Davis and Nancy Glines, was born in Franklin, New Hampshire,  December 1835,[17] and died in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 13 April 1927.[18]

[Biographical material on this couple would go in this position. For example, Daniel Russell Woodward fought in the Civil War. We sould put the name of his unit here and we'd also make comments about his occupation before the war and after. The sky's the limit.]

Children of Daniel and Laura (Davis) Woodward:

   i. Emma Jane Woodward...
[list all known children]

CHAPTER 4: Generation Three

4. Daniel S. Woodward ...

5. Dorcas Adams ...

[Biographical material on this couple followed by the children of #4 and #5

6. Lewis Davis ...

7. Nancy Glines ...

[Biographical material on this couple followed by children of #6 and #7]

Follow general format of previous chapters including your ancestors numbers #8 and #9, #10 and #11, #12 and #13, and #14 and #15.

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Include, if applicable, copies of original documents used for this project (e.g. birth, marriage, or death records, will, census records, etc; pedigree chart; and family group sheets. You may also want to include copies of   family photographs (optional)

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