Dewoody, John

THE DEWOODY FAMILY of Victory township is descended from John Dewoody, a native of Ireland, who emigrated to America, and removed from Pittsburgh to the, valley of Sandy creek in 1796. At Chartier’s creek, Allegheny county, he had met and married Anis McCullough, daughter of a captain in the American Revolution from Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, who removed to the west to receive payment in lands for his services. The original Dewoody settlement was made on the old Pittsburgh road in this township, where a portion of the tract is now owned by John Dewoody, son of the first settler, who kept hotel here many years. John Dewoody, Sr., served in the war of 1812, and died on the old homestead in 1842. He was the father of eight children: George; William; Robert; John; Andrew; Benjamin; Mrs. Sarah Ford, and Mrs. Nancy Kilgore.

JOHN DEWOODY, fourth son of the original settler, was born in November, 1806, upon the farm where he now resides. Here he grew to manhood, and February 21, 1839, married Margaret, daughter of George Kilgore, who emigrated from Londonderry, Ireland, in 1833, and died in 1865, at the age of eighty- seven. They are the parents of five children George A.; Mrs. Anna M. Hill; John; Sarah E., and Margaret, deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Dewoody have been members of the Presbyterian church at Polk since its organization.