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��tian Advocate, the central organ of the M. E. Church, South. In 1836-7 he was the agent of LaGrange College, Alabama, and was elected to the chair of Elocution and Belles Lettres in that institution. He preach- ed extensively, thousands were attract- ed to his meetings, and were wonder- fully influenced by his impassioned eloquence. A quickened religious in- terest resulted from his labors, and large accessions were made to the church through his instrumentality. In 1 84 1 he was elected Chaplain of Congress. Afterward he went to Auburn, N. Y., and in 1845-6 edited the Calvary Token, a monthly paper. He resided in New York and vicinity until 1847, when he went to Arkansas, and joined the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. He remained there

��two years, and then visited the prin- cipal cities of the South, preaching to great congregations. He died sud- denly at Toulmanville, near Mobile, Ala., May 28, 1850. At a post-mor- tem examination his heart was found literally broken, crushed by unmer- ited slanders. He was relentlessly pursued, the ostensible result of an unfortunate second marriage. He had been preaching at Mobile, where a paper, called the National Police Gazette, published in New York city, containing articles against him, was freely circulated. An extra edition was printed, sent to Mo- bile, and sold about the church where he was preaching.

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��JOHN SMITH WOODMAN.

��In a family burying-ground in the old town of Durham, there stands a plain monument with this inscription, " Here lie the remains of the Woodman family, who have occupied these grounds since 1659. Here are the graves of seven generations. John Woodman. Esq., who came from Newbury, Mass., born 1630, died 1706 ; his son Jona- than, born 1665, died 1729; his son John, born 1701, died 1777; his son Capt. Jonathan, born 1743, died 181 1 ; his son Nathan Woodman, born 1789, died 1869." To this last is now added John Smith Woodman, who was born September 6, 1S19, and who died May 9, 1 87 1, and his daughter Fannie, who died in infancy.

Near this grave-yard, on rising ground overlooking the Oyster river, stands the Woodman homestead, built by Capt. John Woodman, about 1659. It was constructed of heavy pine logs, the second story projecting over the first, and had various small windows and port-holes, it being intended to

��serve as a fortress for the early settle- ment. It was in one instance, at least, attacked by Indians and successfully defended. This old garrison-house has been much changed to meet the wants of modern times, so that it now presents the appearance of a commodi- ous and substantial farm-house. It has been occupied by six generations of Woodmans, but as Prof. John S. Woodman left no children, it has re- cently passed into other hands.

The town of Newbury, Mass., was settled in 1635, and in this year Ed- ward Woodman and his wife Joanna, with their two sons, Edward and John, came over from Corsham, Woltshire, England, and settled there.

Of the ninety-one grantees who settled Newbury, fifteen were styled "Mr.," and Edward Woodman was of this number. Mr. Joshua Coffin, in his " List of some of the Descendants of Mr. Edward Woodman," says of him, "he was a man of influence, de- cision and energy. * Mr. Wood-

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