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Lafayette Wooldridge

Lafayette Wooldridge

Male 1840 - 1923  (82 years)

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  • Name Lafayette Wooldridge  [1
    Born 20 Nov 1840  Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3
    • 1880 census states his birthplace as Illinois, while his death certificate records it as Kentucky.
    Gender Male 
    Death 14 Nov 1923  Gillespie, Macoupin County, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    name: Lafayett Wooldridge
    titles and terms (original):
    death date: 14 Nov 1923
    death place: Gillespie, Macoupin, Illinois
    gender: Male
    marital status:
    race or color:
    age: 82
    estimated birth year: 1841
    birth date: 20 Nov 1840
    birthplace: Kentucky
    father: Larkin Wooldridge
    father's titles and terms (original):
    father's birth place: Kentucky
    mother: Mary E. Truitt
    mother's titles and terms (original):
    mother's birth place: Kentucky
    occupation: Teamster
    residence:
    street address:
    spouse: L...R Wooldridge
    spouse's titles and terms (original):
    spouse's birthplace:
    burial date: 16 Nov 1923
    burial place:
    cemetery:
    informant:
    additional relatives:
    digital folder number: 4007928
    image number: 874
    film number: 1452338
    volume/page/certificate number: 42128 
    Occupation
    "Teamster"  [3
    Parents
    Lafayette's 1923 death certificate names his parents as "Larkin Wooldridge" and "Mary E. Truitt," both born in Kentucky.  [3
    Died 14 Nov 1923  Gillespie, Macoupin County, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Person ID I4144  Full | ProgenitorWalker
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2014 

    Father Larkin Wooldridge,   b. Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother Mary E. Truitt,   b. Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F1647  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Agnes Walker,   b. 19 Apr 1842, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 23 Apr 1932, Gillespie, Macoupin County, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 90 years) 
    Married 23 Oct 1862  Macoupin County, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 5
    Children 
     1. Mary Ellen Wooldridge,   b. 25 Nov 1868, West Prairie, Macoupin County, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 6 Aug 1937, Litchfield, Montgomery County, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 68 years)
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2014 
    Family ID F1453  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S1207] Illinois - Marriages State Archives online, Illinois State Archives, ((http://www.ilsos.gov/GenealogyMWeb/marrsrch.html)).

    2. [S1632] 1880 U. S. census, Macoupin County, Illinois, population schedule, Dorchester, enumeration district (ED) 114, p. 15 (penned), p. 162 (stamped, recto), dwelling 106, family 114, Lafyette [Lafayette] Wooldridge household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 9 October 2011); citing NARA microfilm publication T9, roll 232; FHL film no. 1,254,232.

    3. [S2006] "Illinois, Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org : accessed 8 January 2011), entry for Lafayett [Lafayette] Wooldridge, Macoupin County (1923); citing Macoupin County deaths, [vol., and p. not stated], certificate no. 42128; FHL film no. 1,452,338.

    4. [S1289] Illinois - death index 1916-1950 (online, Illinois Archives), Illinois Department of Public Health, ((http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/archives.html)).

    5. [S1295] Illinois, Macoupin - newspaper, Gillespie News, Illinois.
      "Mrs. Wooldridge is the widow of the late Lafayette Wooldridge. . . "