Ninth Generation

20. Daniel WOODARD Sr. was born in 1801 in Whitestown, Oneida County, NY.^2,7 He appeared in the census in 1820 in Champion Township, Jefferson County, NY.⁴ He died after 1881 at the age of 80 in Speaker Township, Sanilac County, MI.^2,7 CENSUS1851: Norwich Twp., Oxford Co. Ontario, Canada Daniel & Hanna with 9 children and Mary Sischo Age 80 and ____ Sischo Age 41 (Deaf & Dumb).

CENSUS1861: North Norwich Twp., Oxford Co. Ontario, Canada Living close to Nehemiah Oakley family.

BIOGRAPHY: Per 1912 Biography of Nehemiah Oakley Family, Daniel & Harriet had 11 children, one who died in infancy.

Daniel WOODARD Sr. and Hannah "Nannah" SISCHO were married about 1821 in Champion Township, Jefferson County, NY.^2,9,12,13

From a letter written between 1945 and 1948 by Delia Lovina Woodard Morse, the daughter of Wilson Woodard: "My grandfather, Daniel Woodard, must have been of English descent. Grandmother was a French lady named Hannah Sischo; if she was related to the Captain Sisco of the French and Indian War, I do not know. They lived in the state of New York for a while, and my father, Wilson Woodard, was born there.

There were three boys and six girls in this family. They afterward moved to Canada, where my father grew to manhood. It must have been way out on the frontier.

Grandma sent my father to return a wash tub that she had borrowed from one of her neighbors who lived miles away. It was so hard to carry, he put it over his head--hanging onto it with both hands. The road passed through dense woods. The wolves followed him all the way to the clearing, where the neighbor lived, but were afraid to tackle him on account of the tub over his head. When he went home, the neighbor sent two large dogs to guard him. They went with him until he came to his own door, then went back home.

They had no stoves, lamps or matches; at that time they cooked and heated their homes with a fireplace. Their only light was tallow candles that they made themselves. They covered the coals deep with ashes to keep them to start the fire again, and if they died they went to a neighbor and borrowed coals. They also had flint and steel to start a spark, but their kindling must be very fine and dry to start a fire that way. Everyone had a dish of splints on the mantle, which they lit on the fireplace to light their candles.

They must have raised all they ate. Their sugar was made from the sap of the maple tree. They burned corncobs and turned water over the ashes, strained it and used the lye in place of soda. Their fruit was all dried and sorted in sacks for winter. Canning was unknown then. Grandmother spun the wool and made yarn for stockings and mittens. She also wove flannel for their clothes." Hannah "Nannah" SISCHO, daughter of Joseph Sr. SISCHO and Mary BELL, was born on 4 August 1808 in Massachusetts.^2,7 She died on 14 July 1881 at the age of 72 in Speaker Township, Sanilac County, MI.²

Daniel WOODARD Sr. and Hannah "Nannah" SISCHO had the following children:

43	i.	Anna WOODARD was born about 1822 in Champion Township, Jefferson County, NY.2 (She died in infancy. Her given name may have been Annis.) She died in Michigan.14 Diane Woodard Marshall did not show this child
+44	ii.	Alvira WOODARD.
+45	iii.	Wilson WOODARD Sr..
+46	iv.	Fannie Helena WOODARD.
+47	v.	Edwin Bracy WOODARD.
+48	vi.	Joseph "Clifford" WOODARD.
+49	vii.	Flavilla S. "Dil" WOODARD.
+50	viii.	Sarah WOODARD.
+51	ix.	Sophia WOODARD.
52	x.	Daniel WOODARD Jr. was born about 1850 in Springford, Oxford County, Ontario Province, Canada.2,7
+53	xi.	Marietta "Mary Etta" WOODARD.