Harriet Burke (Burk) Woodford was born around 1851 in Virginia. Little is known about her early life. She married John Woodford on September 25, 1869, in a ceremony officiated by a Reverend Leonard. The couple had five children together: Mary Elizabeth, born October 10, 1870; Augustus, born in September 1871; Carolyn S., born June 25, 1873; John Woodford, born December 24, 1875; and Eugene Burke, born June 6, 1876. Two of her children--Augustus and John--predeceased her. The family lived in Washington, D.C., and Harriet died there on November 8, 1915.
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Pension Records for John Woodford, RG15, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.; United States Federal Census, 1880, 1910, accessed through Ancestry.com.