Caleb Woodruff was husband of Rosannah who moved to Alabama. Rosannah Woodruff is buried at the Mt Zion Baptist Church in Alexandria Alabama. She moved there with her children, who are also buried in the same cemetery, after Caleb's death. The story I was told is that Caleb sold a female slave to another plantation owner and the husband and son of the female slave ambushed and killed him. I grew up in Alexandria AL and most of my relatives are buried in the same cemetery. Source: [email protected]


Original obituary appears in the The Anniston Star, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 1932, on page 5.

In celebration of the bicentennial of George Washington, the Bienville Chapter of the Daughter of the American Revolution, Tuesday, placed a bronze Daughter of a Revolutionary Soldiers marker on the grave of Rosannah Waters Farrow Woodruff in Mount Zion Cemetery, one mile south of Alexandria, where Mrs. Woodruff came to reside after the death of her husband Caleb Woodruff in South Carolina. Sons and daughters who came with Mrs. Woodruff to what was then Benton County, were Willis, Caleb, Mercer, Minus, Silas, Marshall, Narmera, Areline, Martha, Parmelia, Franklin and Chivers Wooruffs. They became ancestores of the large Chivers Woodruff family, the Martin Crooks - through Namera Woodruff, the Norris Woodruffs and families scattered throughout several states. Out-of-town visitors who came to be present for this occasion were Mr. Willis Woodruff, his son, Willis Woodruff, II, and grandson, WIllis Woodruff, III: Mr. George Woodruff, Mrs Annie Woodruff White and her son WIlliam White, and Mrs. Rosannah Woodruff Taylor and her daughter, Lydia Taylor, all of Birmingham. Other direct decendants of Rosannah Farrow Woodruff present were Mrs. Norris Woodruff of Alexandria; Mrs. Sallie Woodruff Martin; Miss Mary Woodruff, Dr. Gerald WOodruff and Geral Woodruff, Jr., Mrs. Dredeile Haynes of Anniston as Rosannah Woodruff decends fromTHomas Woodruff, the brother of Caleb Woodruff who married Rosannah Farrow. Dr. Frank Willis Barnett of Birmingham historian for the Birmingham News, was an honored guest, as were Miss Willie Barney Forges and Mrs. L. M. Burns who decends from the Barney McCullars, one of the earliest families to move into this county: Mrs. Florence Everett, Mrs. Morgan Bunch, Mr. Gerald Woodruff and Mrs. F. K. Farrow, Jr. all of Anniston. Members of the Bienville Chapter whor were hostesses for this delightful occasion were Mrs. Dredeile Haynes, Mrs. Joseph Aderhlad, Mrs. Robert Bailey, Mrs. Henry Edmondson, Mrs. S. L. Galbraith, Mrs. Horace Miller, Mrs. J. J. McInytyer, Mrs. Vernor Ordway, Mrs. F. K. Perrow, Miss Alice Pettus, Mrs. Walter Wade Roginson, Mrs. Leslie Sutton, Mrs. Wilbur Salter, Mrs. James Sproull, Mrs. J. L. Stephenson, Mrs. Julia Thompson, Mrs. F. L. Turner, Mrs. Eugene Turner, Jr., Mrs. Henry Young, Mrs. C.S. Leyden and Mrs. Ethel Ledbetter. Exercises marking the occasion opened with the D. A. R. Ritual by Bienville Chapter and presentation of the marker by the regent Miss Alice Pettur, Gerald Woodruff, Jr. unvieled the marker and Mrs. Annie Woodruff White accepted it for the family. She is a granddaughter of Rosannah Farrow Woodruff, decends form a collateral line, spoke graphically of the early days of Woodruff family in Woodruff, SC. She recounted the days of the Revolution in South Carolina when indians and Tories were enemies to combat as well as the British. During these terrible days John Farrow died and left his wife Rosannah with five stalwart sons to defend their home and country in the Revolution. THe widowed Rosannah was at home alone with her young children when she was notified that three of her solider sons had been captured by the British, but they might exchanged for British captives one for two. The story of the rescue of these sons is one of the true romances of early history. Rosannah Farrow saved her boys, who lived to be fine citizens of Ninety Sixth District of South Carolina. From the oldest, Thomas Farrow, decend some of the strong men and women of South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama. From the Waters line of their common ancestry come men and women of Southern and Eastern state, Theodore Roosevelt being of this line through the Strobo-Waters family. Mr. Frank Woodruff of Rome, GA: Mrs. Rosa Gordon of Columbus, GA; Mrs. Charles Woodruff, of Hopkinsville, KY; Mrs. Willis L. Woodruff, Mrs. George Woodruff, Mrs. Annie Woodruff White, and Mrs. Rosannah Woodruff, all of Birmingham, AL: the late Mr. Mercer Woodruff, of Alexandria, AL and the late Mr. Chivers D. Woodruff, of Anniston, AL are heads of some of the large families who are grandchildren. Mrs. Hardwick Ruth, of Montgomery, AL, and Mrs. W. R. Brown, of Anniston, AL are great-grandchildren of Rosannah Waters Farrow Woodruff, whose grave was marked on Tuesday as a Daughter of a Revolutionary Soldier.