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Humphrey Marshall Woodyard (Lewis County, Missouri, attorney and lieutenant colonel (U.S.A.) )

b. 1810? d. 1864-04-14

Lewis County, Missouri, attorney and soldier. Kentucky native. Married to Amelia R. Nelson in Lewis County, Missouri, on November 8, 1841. Father of Alice N. Woodyard, Nantella M. Woodyard, Marco B. Woodyard, J.N. Woodyard, and S.T. Woodyard. Attorney in Lewis County, Missouri, in 1850. Owned two enslaved persons in Lewis County in 1850. Attorney in Lewis County in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Lewis County in 1860. Served in the 21st Missouri Infantry (U.S.A.) as Lieutenant Colonel from 1862 to 1864. Died in military service on April 14, 1864, in Memphis, Missouri.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Missouri, Lewis County, District 48, p. 371A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Missouri, Lewis County, District 48.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Missouri, Lewis County, Canton, p. 173.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Missouri, Lewis County, Canton, p. 7B.

Missouri, U.S., Marriage Records, 1833-1977, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, MO, Lewis County.

_U.S. Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, NARA RG 15, Microfilm Series T288, Missouri, Roll 535, Application 55229, Certificate 107478.

Case Files of Approved Pension Applications of Widows and Other Dependents of Civil War Veterans, ca. 1861 – ca. 1910, NARA RG 15, Application 116848.

Citation

Woodyard, Humphrey Marshall. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32280719 (November 13, 2026).

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