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Facts and Events
This Sarah Woods has been apparently mis-identified as the daughter of Michael Woods and Mary Campbell in the Woods-McAfee Memorial publication, but that appears to be in error based upon other documented information (see below).
From Genforum.com post:
As a descendant of Peter Wallace and Martha Woods and their parents: SAMUEL
Wallace and Elizabeth Woods and SAMUEL Woods and ELIZABETH Campbell, I
resent the continued misstatements about the identities and parentage of
these people and the continued confusion with Michael and Mary when there
has been plenty of records for decades on both sides of the Atlantic showing
the realities. I, the late Ruth Lamar Petracek, Ruby Woods, Lois M. Postel,
the late Mrs. Ruthmary Erdahl-first cousin of the Congressman of the same
name, my late mother, and others have spent over 40 years researching and
transcribing the truth and passing it on--long before computers, trying to
undo the speculative undocumented crap put out in the Woods-McAfee Memorial
and other vanity press books published 85 to 100 years ago. We've even
struggled with semi-historical claptrap like Marten's mangled history of
Rockbridge which had uncle and nephew both named John Wallace dying the same
day, ignoring the probate records and land records indicating that the
nephew was alive and well when Marten has him dead. Apparently when he was
doing his typing and editing he wasn't going back to cross check what he'd
written with the original records. Yet we think he's the idiot who dropped
Peter Wallace's will behind the file cabinet in the basement of the
Rockbridge County Courthouse. (Ruth Lamar Petracek found it again--a
photocopy of that is also in her book.)"......
http://boards.ancestry.com/surnames.woods/5091.1.4/mb.ashx
Martha, Magalena and their sister Sarah who married Joseph Lapsley were all
daughters of SAMUEL Woods and Elizabeth Campbell, not Michael Woods and Mary
Campbell. Martha was born probably in 1718--the colonial marriage laws
generally stated 21 as a minimum age for marriage. The Quakers allowed
marriage for 18 year old females and were constantly at odds with the
"official" church. Remember: church and state were one in England, and
England ruled the Americas. Thus even many Quakers waited--because the fines
could be quite hefty if they didn't. Peter Wallace was born between
1715-1717.
There is no evidence that Mary Campbell was killed by the Native Americans.
The December, 1741 incident occurred west of where Michael Woods and his
wife were living and it might have been her sister, Elizabeth Campbell Woods
who was among people killed by the Native Americans after John McDowell gave
the Iroquois war party liquor. According to the records of those asking for
compensation for losses (which included family members) it was the Woods in
Augusta County, connected with Samuel Woods, who filed for compensation.....
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