WEST POINT, TEXAS (Fayette County). West Point is north of State Highway 71 twelve miles west of La Grange in western Fayette County. It occupies lands originally granted to Montraville Woods and Thomas Alley in 1831 and was established during the 1880s at the crossing of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas and the Texas and New Orleans railroads. Montraville Woods was of the extended family of Zadock Woods, veteran of the War of 1812 who was later killed in the Dawson massacre. The Woods family established a fort in the area, and the fertile lands south of the Colorado River became known as Woods Prairie.
WEST POINT, TEXAS (Fayette County). West Point is north of State Highway 71 twelve miles west of La Grange in western Fayette County. It occupies lands originally granted to Montraville Woods and Thomas Alley in 1831 and was established during the 1880s at the crossing of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas and the Texas and New Orleans railroads. Montraville Woods was of the extended family of Zadock Woods, veteran of the War of 1812 who was later killed in the Dawson massacre. The Woods family established a fort in the area, and the fertile lands south of the Colorado River became known as Woods Prairie.
Family Members
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Maria "Mary" Woods Milligan
1829–1873
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Minerva Jane Woods
1832–1850
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Amanda Melvina Woods Brown
1833–1856
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Madlina Rose Woods Brown
1836–1924
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Alicia Sophronia "Saffronia" Woods Milligan
1838–1921
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Mary Ann Woods Escalera
1840–1900
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Isabell Woods Frazier
1842–1918
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Malinda Susan Woods
1844–1862
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Susan Woods
1846–1846
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Montraville Zadock Woods Jr
1847–1912
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Margaret Elizabeth "Eliza" Woods Gonzales
1849–1936
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Emma Ardelia Woods Hartmann
1851–1939
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