The Kansas City Star
Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri
Wednesday, 12 July, 1882
Volume 8, Issue 159, p1
Mr. Meade Woodson, the Well-Known
Laywer, Dies of Consumption.
Sketch of His Life.
Mr. Meade Woodson, a well-known lawyer of this city, died at his residence on the Westport road about seven o'clock last night. For about two years past Mr. Woodson has been slowly sinking under that incurable disease, consumption, and his death has for a long time been considered merely a question of time. A few days since his friends thought an improvement in his condition was noticeable, but it proved to be only that brief respite from pain that usually comes before death. Mr. Woodson was born in this county, and was the son of the late Judge Samuel Woodson of Independence. At the breaking out out of the late war he left his school in Virginia and joined the confederate army under John Morgan. At the close of the war he returned to Virginia, resumed his studies, and was admitted to the bar in 1867. He practiced law for a number of years but finally gave it up and accepted a position as cashier in the Commercial National bank of this city. Lately he has been associated with H.C. Harper in the real estate business. Mr. Woodson was an energetic man and displayed marked ability in his profession. In politics he was a democrat. Mr. Woodson leaves a widow and four children, the eldest of whom is only 15. The burial takes place to-morrow under the auspices of the Knights of Pythias.
(this newspaper clipping researched by
DK O'Neill Ward Neff)
___
The Kansas City Star
Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri
Wednesday, 12 July, 1882
Funeral Notice.
The funeral services of Meade Woodson will be held at his late residence on the Westport road, Thursday, July 13, at 10:30 a.m.
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The Kansas City Star
Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri
Thursday, 13 July, 1882
Volume 8, Issue 160, Page 1
IMPOSING HONORS.
Paid to the Memory of Meade Wood-
son--Dr. Madeira's Tribute to the
Departed.
The funeral of Meade S. Woodson took place from his late residence on the Westport road this morning. The large acquaintance and uniform courtesy of the deceased drew a large concourse of people to pay their last respects to the remains. Long before the hour appointed, the commodious country house was filled with friends and relatives and the drives about the house were clogged with vehicle of every description.
THE REMAINS
were placed in the north front parlor in an elegant casket, upon which was wreath, a cross and a sickle, all done in freshly cut pansies, tube roses and begonias, backed with geranium leaves, evergreen and sweet briar. In the center of the cross was a full blown calla lily, which added its symbolic beauty to the decoration. The relatives and immediate friends occupied seats at the rear of the north parlor, just within the folding doors leading to the rear parlor. They were Mrs. Woodson, her three orphan children, her husband's brother Mr. Sam Woodson, Mrs. Judge Woodson, mother of the deceased and her second son. The parlors on both sides of the spacious hall were filled with mourning guests and on the porticos about the house were gathered the first men of the city--the bar, the judiciary, journalists and business men.
Promptly at the appointed time Rev. A. D. Madera [sic] took his place beside the coffined dead and after offering a short prayer, delivered a touching and appropriate address during which he gave
THE FOLLOWING POINTS
in Mr. Woodson's history, some of which have never been published.
Meade Woodson was born on the 15th of March, 1843, in Jackson county, in this state. In 1856 he was taken by his parents to Washington City, his father, the late Judge Woodson, being a member of congress from this district. During the residences of the family at Washington he was sent to Ben Hollowell's school at Alexandria, Va. Some three years later he went to Centre college, at Danville, Ky., then under the presidency of Dr. Green. While there he made a profession of religion and united with the Presbyterian church. Soon after the breaking out of the war he joined Gen. John Morgan, and was with him during almost his entire career. He accompanied him in the celebrated raid through Indiana and Ohio, and was one of the few, led by Gen. Adam Johnson, who escaped across the Ohio river. History state that Gen, Johnson, Meade Woods and Sidney Cunningham were the first who plunged into the waters of the Ohio. Two of Gen. Johnson's staff were drowned.
It was during the war that Mr. Woodson met Miss Burney Pizer and formed the engagement which was consummated by their marriage in 1866 in Baltimore, co., Va. He moved to Kansas City in 1868 and immediately entered upon the practice of law in partnership with Geo. W. Baylor. He was subsequently elected cashier of the Commercial National bank, which position he held until the crash in monetary affairs took place in which the First National and, indeed, all the national banks in the city failed. Mr. Woodson's bank was the only one that paid the depositors dollar for dollar with interest up to the date of the payment.
Since the suspension of the Commercial bank Mr. Woodson has been engaged in the real estate business with H. C. Harper, under the firm name of Harper & Woodson. Few men have lived in Kansas City who wielded greater influences in politics, general or local, than Meade Woodson, and yet he had no aspirations toward holding office, and never sought a political position in his life.
In his fortieth year he succumbed to the disease that had been preying upon him during his entire manhood. As a husband, father, friend, it would be difficult to pay his memory the high attribute of praise. His business integrity was never questioned, and his character as a man was without a blemish.
At the close of the address, the pall-bearers, Maj. B. F. Jones, Col. Bob Drennon, W. C. Bryant, Harry Wright, J. V. C. Karnes, Maj. B. F. Woodson, George Nolan and Col. Thornton, carried the remains from the house to the hearse and the cortege passed up the road to Union Cemetery, where all that is mortal of the kindly gentleman was interred in the family vault by the side of his children who preceded him there.
___
Civil War:
• Confederate Company D, J H Morgan's Men, Kentucky
Private in, Private out
• Confederate Company B, 2nd Consolidated Cavalry Battalion, Kentucky (assembled in Aug 1863 of men from J K Morgan's dispersed command) serving under Dortch
First Lieutenant in, First Lieutenant out
• Saw action in Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, including the Battle of Chickamuga.
Amendatory ordinances were passed as follows: December 15, 1873, for a track on Delaware Street from Fifth Street to Sixth Street, and on Fifth Street to the square between Main and Walnut Streets. December 26, 1873, the necessary connections were allowed to be made, requiring grade reductions on Fifth Street. The road was bonded in 1873, and was sold under deed of trust June 29, 1875, to Byron E Dye, who conveyed it to the Kansas City Horse Railway Company, organized July 3, 1875, by Byron S. Dye, Meade Woodson, D. Ellison and D.E. Dickerson.
Encyclopedia of the history of Missouri: a compendium of history and biography for ready reference
Chapter Title: Street Railways of Kansas City
Edited by Howard Louis Conard
Published 1901 by The Southern History Co.
___
The Kansas City Times
Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri
Sunday, 7 October, 1894
Page 7
THE WOODSON CEMETERY LOT.
It Is the Subject of litigation in the Cir-
cuit Court.
A petition was filed in the Circuit court yesterday by Mrs. Fannie B. Woodson and others, asking that the Union cemetery association be enjoined from exhuming the bodies now buried in the Woodson lot of that cemetery, and that the Woodson family be vested with a clear title to the lot.
For more than a year the title of the Woodson family to this piece of property has been in dispute. Mrs. Woodson alleges in her petition that the lot was bought and paid for in 1875 by Meade Woodson, and that he received a deed for it. The deed was since lost, but from time to time remains of members of the family were interred in the lot. The first intimation received was in 1887, when a bill for a balance of $150 due on the lot was submitted. The bill was repudiated by Mrs. Woodson on the grounds that, as she believed, the lot had been paid for in full. Upon the death of Mrs. Norah Woodson, wife of Ashly Woodson, a year ago, the Cemetery association served notice upon the family that burial in the lot would not be permitted until the $150 balance was paid. Friends interceded and finally prevailed upon the association to rescind its order and issue a burial permit. The matter came up again a few days ago at a meeting of the board of cemetery directors, with the result that the Woodson lot was ordered sold in separate graves. The sexton was directed to disinter the bodies of the members of the Woodson family already buried there and transfer them to another part of the cemetery.
The Woodson family is one of the oldest in Jacckson county. Samuel H. Woodson, father of Meade Woodson, represented this district in Congress. Meade Woodson, at the time of his death, in 1882, was an officer of the Commercial National bank of Kansas City.
(this newspaper clipping researched by Jerry)
Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri
Wednesday, 12 July, 1882
Volume 8, Issue 159, p1
Mr. Meade Woodson, the Well-Known
Laywer, Dies of Consumption.
Sketch of His Life.
Mr. Meade Woodson, a well-known lawyer of this city, died at his residence on the Westport road about seven o'clock last night. For about two years past Mr. Woodson has been slowly sinking under that incurable disease, consumption, and his death has for a long time been considered merely a question of time. A few days since his friends thought an improvement in his condition was noticeable, but it proved to be only that brief respite from pain that usually comes before death. Mr. Woodson was born in this county, and was the son of the late Judge Samuel Woodson of Independence. At the breaking out out of the late war he left his school in Virginia and joined the confederate army under John Morgan. At the close of the war he returned to Virginia, resumed his studies, and was admitted to the bar in 1867. He practiced law for a number of years but finally gave it up and accepted a position as cashier in the Commercial National bank of this city. Lately he has been associated with H.C. Harper in the real estate business. Mr. Woodson was an energetic man and displayed marked ability in his profession. In politics he was a democrat. Mr. Woodson leaves a widow and four children, the eldest of whom is only 15. The burial takes place to-morrow under the auspices of the Knights of Pythias.
(this newspaper clipping researched by
DK O'Neill Ward Neff)
___
The Kansas City Star
Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri
Wednesday, 12 July, 1882
Funeral Notice.
The funeral services of Meade Woodson will be held at his late residence on the Westport road, Thursday, July 13, at 10:30 a.m.
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The Kansas City Star
Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri
Thursday, 13 July, 1882
Volume 8, Issue 160, Page 1
IMPOSING HONORS.
Paid to the Memory of Meade Wood-
son--Dr. Madeira's Tribute to the
Departed.
The funeral of Meade S. Woodson took place from his late residence on the Westport road this morning. The large acquaintance and uniform courtesy of the deceased drew a large concourse of people to pay their last respects to the remains. Long before the hour appointed, the commodious country house was filled with friends and relatives and the drives about the house were clogged with vehicle of every description.
THE REMAINS
were placed in the north front parlor in an elegant casket, upon which was wreath, a cross and a sickle, all done in freshly cut pansies, tube roses and begonias, backed with geranium leaves, evergreen and sweet briar. In the center of the cross was a full blown calla lily, which added its symbolic beauty to the decoration. The relatives and immediate friends occupied seats at the rear of the north parlor, just within the folding doors leading to the rear parlor. They were Mrs. Woodson, her three orphan children, her husband's brother Mr. Sam Woodson, Mrs. Judge Woodson, mother of the deceased and her second son. The parlors on both sides of the spacious hall were filled with mourning guests and on the porticos about the house were gathered the first men of the city--the bar, the judiciary, journalists and business men.
Promptly at the appointed time Rev. A. D. Madera [sic] took his place beside the coffined dead and after offering a short prayer, delivered a touching and appropriate address during which he gave
THE FOLLOWING POINTS
in Mr. Woodson's history, some of which have never been published.
Meade Woodson was born on the 15th of March, 1843, in Jackson county, in this state. In 1856 he was taken by his parents to Washington City, his father, the late Judge Woodson, being a member of congress from this district. During the residences of the family at Washington he was sent to Ben Hollowell's school at Alexandria, Va. Some three years later he went to Centre college, at Danville, Ky., then under the presidency of Dr. Green. While there he made a profession of religion and united with the Presbyterian church. Soon after the breaking out of the war he joined Gen. John Morgan, and was with him during almost his entire career. He accompanied him in the celebrated raid through Indiana and Ohio, and was one of the few, led by Gen. Adam Johnson, who escaped across the Ohio river. History state that Gen, Johnson, Meade Woods and Sidney Cunningham were the first who plunged into the waters of the Ohio. Two of Gen. Johnson's staff were drowned.
It was during the war that Mr. Woodson met Miss Burney Pizer and formed the engagement which was consummated by their marriage in 1866 in Baltimore, co., Va. He moved to Kansas City in 1868 and immediately entered upon the practice of law in partnership with Geo. W. Baylor. He was subsequently elected cashier of the Commercial National bank, which position he held until the crash in monetary affairs took place in which the First National and, indeed, all the national banks in the city failed. Mr. Woodson's bank was the only one that paid the depositors dollar for dollar with interest up to the date of the payment.
Since the suspension of the Commercial bank Mr. Woodson has been engaged in the real estate business with H. C. Harper, under the firm name of Harper & Woodson. Few men have lived in Kansas City who wielded greater influences in politics, general or local, than Meade Woodson, and yet he had no aspirations toward holding office, and never sought a political position in his life.
In his fortieth year he succumbed to the disease that had been preying upon him during his entire manhood. As a husband, father, friend, it would be difficult to pay his memory the high attribute of praise. His business integrity was never questioned, and his character as a man was without a blemish.
At the close of the address, the pall-bearers, Maj. B. F. Jones, Col. Bob Drennon, W. C. Bryant, Harry Wright, J. V. C. Karnes, Maj. B. F. Woodson, George Nolan and Col. Thornton, carried the remains from the house to the hearse and the cortege passed up the road to Union Cemetery, where all that is mortal of the kindly gentleman was interred in the family vault by the side of his children who preceded him there.
___
Civil War:
• Confederate Company D, J H Morgan's Men, Kentucky
Private in, Private out
• Confederate Company B, 2nd Consolidated Cavalry Battalion, Kentucky (assembled in Aug 1863 of men from J K Morgan's dispersed command) serving under Dortch
First Lieutenant in, First Lieutenant out
• Saw action in Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, including the Battle of Chickamuga.
Amendatory ordinances were passed as follows: December 15, 1873, for a track on Delaware Street from Fifth Street to Sixth Street, and on Fifth Street to the square between Main and Walnut Streets. December 26, 1873, the necessary connections were allowed to be made, requiring grade reductions on Fifth Street. The road was bonded in 1873, and was sold under deed of trust June 29, 1875, to Byron E Dye, who conveyed it to the Kansas City Horse Railway Company, organized July 3, 1875, by Byron S. Dye, Meade Woodson, D. Ellison and D.E. Dickerson.
Encyclopedia of the history of Missouri: a compendium of history and biography for ready reference
Chapter Title: Street Railways of Kansas City
Edited by Howard Louis Conard
Published 1901 by The Southern History Co.
___
The Kansas City Times
Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri
Sunday, 7 October, 1894
Page 7
THE WOODSON CEMETERY LOT.
It Is the Subject of litigation in the Cir-
cuit Court.
A petition was filed in the Circuit court yesterday by Mrs. Fannie B. Woodson and others, asking that the Union cemetery association be enjoined from exhuming the bodies now buried in the Woodson lot of that cemetery, and that the Woodson family be vested with a clear title to the lot.
For more than a year the title of the Woodson family to this piece of property has been in dispute. Mrs. Woodson alleges in her petition that the lot was bought and paid for in 1875 by Meade Woodson, and that he received a deed for it. The deed was since lost, but from time to time remains of members of the family were interred in the lot. The first intimation received was in 1887, when a bill for a balance of $150 due on the lot was submitted. The bill was repudiated by Mrs. Woodson on the grounds that, as she believed, the lot had been paid for in full. Upon the death of Mrs. Norah Woodson, wife of Ashly Woodson, a year ago, the Cemetery association served notice upon the family that burial in the lot would not be permitted until the $150 balance was paid. Friends interceded and finally prevailed upon the association to rescind its order and issue a burial permit. The matter came up again a few days ago at a meeting of the board of cemetery directors, with the result that the Woodson lot was ordered sold in separate graves. The sexton was directed to disinter the bodies of the members of the Woodson family already buried there and transfer them to another part of the cemetery.
The Woodson family is one of the oldest in Jacckson county. Samuel H. Woodson, father of Meade Woodson, represented this district in Congress. Meade Woodson, at the time of his death, in 1882, was an officer of the Commercial National bank of Kansas City.
(this newspaper clipping researched by Jerry)
The Kansas City Star
Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri
Wednesday, 12 July, 1882
Volume 8, Issue 159, p1
Mr. Meade Woodson, the Well-Known
Laywer, Dies of Consumption.
Sketch of His Life.
Mr. Meade Woodson, a well-known lawyer of this city, died at his residence on the Westport road about seven o'clock last night. For about two years past Mr. Woodson has been slowly sinking under that incurable disease, consumption, and his death has for a long time been considered merely a question of time. A few days since his friends thought an improvement in his condition was noticeable, but it proved to be only that brief respite from pain that usually comes before death. Mr. Woodson was born in this county, and was the son of the late Judge Samuel Woodson of Independence. At the breaking out out of the late war he left his school in Virginia and joined the confederate army under John Morgan. At the close of the war he returned to Virginia, resumed his studies, and was admitted to the bar in 1867. He practiced law for a number of years but finally gave it up and accepted a position as cashier in the Commercial National bank of this city. Lately he has been associated with H.C. Harper in the real estate business. Mr. Woodson was an energetic man and displayed marked ability in his profession. In politics he was a democrat. Mr. Woodson leaves a widow and four children, the eldest of whom is only 15. The burial takes place to-morrow under the auspices of the Knights of Pythias.
(this newspaper clipping researched by
DK O'Neill Ward Neff)
___
The Kansas City Star
Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri
Wednesday, 12 July, 1882
Funeral Notice.
The funeral services of Meade Woodson will be held at his late residence on the Westport road, Thursday, July 13, at 10:30 a.m.
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The Kansas City Star
Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri
Thursday, 13 July, 1882
Volume 8, Issue 160, Page 1
IMPOSING HONORS.
Paid to the Memory of Meade Wood-
son--Dr. Madeira's Tribute to the
Departed.
The funeral of Meade S. Woodson took place from his late residence on the Westport road this morning. The large acquaintance and uniform courtesy of the deceased drew a large concourse of people to pay their last respects to the remains. Long before the hour appointed, the commodious country house was filled with friends and relatives and the drives about the house were clogged with vehicle of every description.
THE REMAINS
were placed in the north front parlor in an elegant casket, upon which was wreath, a cross and a sickle, all done in freshly cut pansies, tube roses and begonias, backed with geranium leaves, evergreen and sweet briar. In the center of the cross was a full blown calla lily, which added its symbolic beauty to the decoration. The relatives and immediate friends occupied seats at the rear of the north parlor, just within the folding doors leading to the rear parlor. They were Mrs. Woodson, her three orphan children, her husband's brother Mr. Sam Woodson, Mrs. Judge Woodson, mother of the deceased and her second son. The parlors on both sides of the spacious hall were filled with mourning guests and on the porticos about the house were gathered the first men of the city--the bar, the judiciary, journalists and business men.
Promptly at the appointed time Rev. A. D. Madera [sic] took his place beside the coffined dead and after offering a short prayer, delivered a touching and appropriate address during which he gave
THE FOLLOWING POINTS
in Mr. Woodson's history, some of which have never been published.
Meade Woodson was born on the 15th of March, 1843, in Jackson county, in this state. In 1856 he was taken by his parents to Washington City, his father, the late Judge Woodson, being a member of congress from this district. During the residences of the family at Washington he was sent to Ben Hollowell's school at Alexandria, Va. Some three years later he went to Centre college, at Danville, Ky., then under the presidency of Dr. Green. While there he made a profession of religion and united with the Presbyterian church. Soon after the breaking out of the war he joined Gen. John Morgan, and was with him during almost his entire career. He accompanied him in the celebrated raid through Indiana and Ohio, and was one of the few, led by Gen. Adam Johnson, who escaped across the Ohio river. History state that Gen, Johnson, Meade Woods and Sidney Cunningham were the first who plunged into the waters of the Ohio. Two of Gen. Johnson's staff were drowned.
It was during the war that Mr. Woodson met Miss Burney Pizer and formed the engagement which was consummated by their marriage in 1866 in Baltimore, co., Va. He moved to Kansas City in 1868 and immediately entered upon the practice of law in partnership with Geo. W. Baylor. He was subsequently elected cashier of the Commercial National bank, which position he held until the crash in monetary affairs took place in which the First National and, indeed, all the national banks in the city failed. Mr. Woodson's bank was the only one that paid the depositors dollar for dollar with interest up to the date of the payment.
Since the suspension of the Commercial bank Mr. Woodson has been engaged in the real estate business with H. C. Harper, under the firm name of Harper & Woodson. Few men have lived in Kansas City who wielded greater influences in politics, general or local, than Meade Woodson, and yet he had no aspirations toward holding office, and never sought a political position in his life.
In his fortieth year he succumbed to the disease that had been preying upon him during his entire manhood. As a husband, father, friend, it would be difficult to pay his memory the high attribute of praise. His business integrity was never questioned, and his character as a man was without a blemish.
At the close of the address, the pall-bearers, Maj. B. F. Jones, Col. Bob Drennon, W. C. Bryant, Harry Wright, J. V. C. Karnes, Maj. B. F. Woodson, George Nolan and Col. Thornton, carried the remains from the house to the hearse and the cortege passed up the road to Union Cemetery, where all that is mortal of the kindly gentleman was interred in the family vault by the side of his children who preceded him there.
___
Civil War:
• Confederate Company D, J H Morgan's Men, Kentucky
Private in, Private out
• Confederate Company B, 2nd Consolidated Cavalry Battalion, Kentucky (assembled in Aug 1863 of men from J K Morgan's dispersed command) serving under Dortch
First Lieutenant in, First Lieutenant out
• Saw action in Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, including the Battle of Chickamuga.
Amendatory ordinances were passed as follows: December 15, 1873, for a track on Delaware Street from Fifth Street to Sixth Street, and on Fifth Street to the square between Main and Walnut Streets. December 26, 1873, the necessary connections were allowed to be made, requiring grade reductions on Fifth Street. The road was bonded in 1873, and was sold under deed of trust June 29, 1875, to Byron E Dye, who conveyed it to the Kansas City Horse Railway Company, organized July 3, 1875, by Byron S. Dye, Meade Woodson, D. Ellison and D.E. Dickerson.
Encyclopedia of the history of Missouri: a compendium of history and biography for ready reference
Chapter Title: Street Railways of Kansas City
Edited by Howard Louis Conard
Published 1901 by The Southern History Co.
___
The Kansas City Times
Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri
Sunday, 7 October, 1894
Page 7
THE WOODSON CEMETERY LOT.
It Is the Subject of litigation in the Cir-
cuit Court.
A petition was filed in the Circuit court yesterday by Mrs. Fannie B. Woodson and others, asking that the Union cemetery association be enjoined from exhuming the bodies now buried in the Woodson lot of that cemetery, and that the Woodson family be vested with a clear title to the lot.
For more than a year the title of the Woodson family to this piece of property has been in dispute. Mrs. Woodson alleges in her petition that the lot was bought and paid for in 1875 by Meade Woodson, and that he received a deed for it. The deed was since lost, but from time to time remains of members of the family were interred in the lot. The first intimation received was in 1887, when a bill for a balance of $150 due on the lot was submitted. The bill was repudiated by Mrs. Woodson on the grounds that, as she believed, the lot had been paid for in full. Upon the death of Mrs. Norah Woodson, wife of Ashly Woodson, a year ago, the Cemetery association served notice upon the family that burial in the lot would not be permitted until the $150 balance was paid. Friends interceded and finally prevailed upon the association to rescind its order and issue a burial permit. The matter came up again a few days ago at a meeting of the board of cemetery directors, with the result that the Woodson lot was ordered sold in separate graves. The sexton was directed to disinter the bodies of the members of the Woodson family already buried there and transfer them to another part of the cemetery.
The Woodson family is one of the oldest in Jacckson county. Samuel H. Woodson, father of Meade Woodson, represented this district in Congress. Meade Woodson, at the time of his death, in 1882, was an officer of the Commercial National bank of Kansas City.
(this newspaper clipping researched by Jerry)
Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri
Wednesday, 12 July, 1882
Volume 8, Issue 159, p1
Mr. Meade Woodson, the Well-Known
Laywer, Dies of Consumption.
Sketch of His Life.
Mr. Meade Woodson, a well-known lawyer of this city, died at his residence on the Westport road about seven o'clock last night. For about two years past Mr. Woodson has been slowly sinking under that incurable disease, consumption, and his death has for a long time been considered merely a question of time. A few days since his friends thought an improvement in his condition was noticeable, but it proved to be only that brief respite from pain that usually comes before death. Mr. Woodson was born in this county, and was the son of the late Judge Samuel Woodson of Independence. At the breaking out out of the late war he left his school in Virginia and joined the confederate army under John Morgan. At the close of the war he returned to Virginia, resumed his studies, and was admitted to the bar in 1867. He practiced law for a number of years but finally gave it up and accepted a position as cashier in the Commercial National bank of this city. Lately he has been associated with H.C. Harper in the real estate business. Mr. Woodson was an energetic man and displayed marked ability in his profession. In politics he was a democrat. Mr. Woodson leaves a widow and four children, the eldest of whom is only 15. The burial takes place to-morrow under the auspices of the Knights of Pythias.
(this newspaper clipping researched by
DK O'Neill Ward Neff)
___
The Kansas City Star
Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri
Wednesday, 12 July, 1882
Funeral Notice.
The funeral services of Meade Woodson will be held at his late residence on the Westport road, Thursday, July 13, at 10:30 a.m.
___
The Kansas City Star
Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri
Thursday, 13 July, 1882
Volume 8, Issue 160, Page 1
IMPOSING HONORS.
Paid to the Memory of Meade Wood-
son--Dr. Madeira's Tribute to the
Departed.
The funeral of Meade S. Woodson took place from his late residence on the Westport road this morning. The large acquaintance and uniform courtesy of the deceased drew a large concourse of people to pay their last respects to the remains. Long before the hour appointed, the commodious country house was filled with friends and relatives and the drives about the house were clogged with vehicle of every description.
THE REMAINS
were placed in the north front parlor in an elegant casket, upon which was wreath, a cross and a sickle, all done in freshly cut pansies, tube roses and begonias, backed with geranium leaves, evergreen and sweet briar. In the center of the cross was a full blown calla lily, which added its symbolic beauty to the decoration. The relatives and immediate friends occupied seats at the rear of the north parlor, just within the folding doors leading to the rear parlor. They were Mrs. Woodson, her three orphan children, her husband's brother Mr. Sam Woodson, Mrs. Judge Woodson, mother of the deceased and her second son. The parlors on both sides of the spacious hall were filled with mourning guests and on the porticos about the house were gathered the first men of the city--the bar, the judiciary, journalists and business men.
Promptly at the appointed time Rev. A. D. Madera [sic] took his place beside the coffined dead and after offering a short prayer, delivered a touching and appropriate address during which he gave
THE FOLLOWING POINTS
in Mr. Woodson's history, some of which have never been published.
Meade Woodson was born on the 15th of March, 1843, in Jackson county, in this state. In 1856 he was taken by his parents to Washington City, his father, the late Judge Woodson, being a member of congress from this district. During the residences of the family at Washington he was sent to Ben Hollowell's school at Alexandria, Va. Some three years later he went to Centre college, at Danville, Ky., then under the presidency of Dr. Green. While there he made a profession of religion and united with the Presbyterian church. Soon after the breaking out of the war he joined Gen. John Morgan, and was with him during almost his entire career. He accompanied him in the celebrated raid through Indiana and Ohio, and was one of the few, led by Gen. Adam Johnson, who escaped across the Ohio river. History state that Gen, Johnson, Meade Woods and Sidney Cunningham were the first who plunged into the waters of the Ohio. Two of Gen. Johnson's staff were drowned.
It was during the war that Mr. Woodson met Miss Burney Pizer and formed the engagement which was consummated by their marriage in 1866 in Baltimore, co., Va. He moved to Kansas City in 1868 and immediately entered upon the practice of law in partnership with Geo. W. Baylor. He was subsequently elected cashier of the Commercial National bank, which position he held until the crash in monetary affairs took place in which the First National and, indeed, all the national banks in the city failed. Mr. Woodson's bank was the only one that paid the depositors dollar for dollar with interest up to the date of the payment.
Since the suspension of the Commercial bank Mr. Woodson has been engaged in the real estate business with H. C. Harper, under the firm name of Harper & Woodson. Few men have lived in Kansas City who wielded greater influences in politics, general or local, than Meade Woodson, and yet he had no aspirations toward holding office, and never sought a political position in his life.
In his fortieth year he succumbed to the disease that had been preying upon him during his entire manhood. As a husband, father, friend, it would be difficult to pay his memory the high attribute of praise. His business integrity was never questioned, and his character as a man was without a blemish.
At the close of the address, the pall-bearers, Maj. B. F. Jones, Col. Bob Drennon, W. C. Bryant, Harry Wright, J. V. C. Karnes, Maj. B. F. Woodson, George Nolan and Col. Thornton, carried the remains from the house to the hearse and the cortege passed up the road to Union Cemetery, where all that is mortal of the kindly gentleman was interred in the family vault by the side of his children who preceded him there.
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Civil War:
• Confederate Company D, J H Morgan's Men, Kentucky
Private in, Private out
• Confederate Company B, 2nd Consolidated Cavalry Battalion, Kentucky (assembled in Aug 1863 of men from J K Morgan's dispersed command) serving under Dortch
First Lieutenant in, First Lieutenant out
• Saw action in Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, including the Battle of Chickamuga.
Amendatory ordinances were passed as follows: December 15, 1873, for a track on Delaware Street from Fifth Street to Sixth Street, and on Fifth Street to the square between Main and Walnut Streets. December 26, 1873, the necessary connections were allowed to be made, requiring grade reductions on Fifth Street. The road was bonded in 1873, and was sold under deed of trust June 29, 1875, to Byron E Dye, who conveyed it to the Kansas City Horse Railway Company, organized July 3, 1875, by Byron S. Dye, Meade Woodson, D. Ellison and D.E. Dickerson.
Encyclopedia of the history of Missouri: a compendium of history and biography for ready reference
Chapter Title: Street Railways of Kansas City
Edited by Howard Louis Conard
Published 1901 by The Southern History Co.
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The Kansas City Times
Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri
Sunday, 7 October, 1894
Page 7
THE WOODSON CEMETERY LOT.
It Is the Subject of litigation in the Cir-
cuit Court.
A petition was filed in the Circuit court yesterday by Mrs. Fannie B. Woodson and others, asking that the Union cemetery association be enjoined from exhuming the bodies now buried in the Woodson lot of that cemetery, and that the Woodson family be vested with a clear title to the lot.
For more than a year the title of the Woodson family to this piece of property has been in dispute. Mrs. Woodson alleges in her petition that the lot was bought and paid for in 1875 by Meade Woodson, and that he received a deed for it. The deed was since lost, but from time to time remains of members of the family were interred in the lot. The first intimation received was in 1887, when a bill for a balance of $150 due on the lot was submitted. The bill was repudiated by Mrs. Woodson on the grounds that, as she believed, the lot had been paid for in full. Upon the death of Mrs. Norah Woodson, wife of Ashly Woodson, a year ago, the Cemetery association served notice upon the family that burial in the lot would not be permitted until the $150 balance was paid. Friends interceded and finally prevailed upon the association to rescind its order and issue a burial permit. The matter came up again a few days ago at a meeting of the board of cemetery directors, with the result that the Woodson lot was ordered sold in separate graves. The sexton was directed to disinter the bodies of the members of the Woodson family already buried there and transfer them to another part of the cemetery.
The Woodson family is one of the oldest in Jacckson county. Samuel H. Woodson, father of Meade Woodson, represented this district in Congress. Meade Woodson, at the time of his death, in 1882, was an officer of the Commercial National bank of Kansas City.
(this newspaper clipping researched by Jerry)
Inscription
WOODSON
MEADE | FRANCES B.
1843 – 1882 | 1845 – 1927
Gravesite Details
Woodson Family Plot
Family Members
Siblings
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