![]() Why is that important? Because selling directly to customers means farmers, fishers and their children can keep doing what they love and feeding growing cities. ![]() Greenmarket is a producer-only market with rigorous “grow-your-own” standards. Greenmarket supports farmers and preserves farmland for the future by providing regional farmers with opportunities to sell their fruits, vegetables and other products at our open-air farmers markets throughout New York City. Woodard is buried in the family lot in Woodlawn Cemetery, Sandy Creek.Since 1976, Greenmarket has promoted regional agriculture and ensured a continuing supply of fresh, local produce for all New Yorkers. Woodard’s other descendants include great grandchildren Roberta and John Wood and Kevin and Kelly Cummins, all of the “Valley.” Among his nieces and nephews are local residents Radcliffe Wilder and Miss Dorothy Lillis. Robert (Marie) Wood and George Cummins, owner and operator of Wolf Creek Valley farm. Woodard’s survivors included his two grandchildren, Mrs. Woodard built the first telephone line from the Village to West Sandy Creek and about 1923 constructed the first battery-powered radio receiver in the area.īesides his daughter, Mrs. As a young man he was keenly interested in photography, preserving the Valley doings and landmarks on still existent glass plate negatives. Raised in the Yankee tradition of tillers of the soil, “Deck” was a lifelong farmer but was blessed with an inquiring mind and a native mechanical ability. Woodard attended the Center Methodist Church until its closing in the 1930’s. ![]() Maitland (Myrtle) Cummins.Ī member of Sandy Creek Grange for 43 years, Mr. Woodard had attended the Pulaski training class and had taught in Illion and in the Sage and White District Schools before her marriage. Woodard married Mary Doneburg, daughter of John and Sarah Doneburg on October 16, 1906. Wilder and Eudora who became the wife of Fred Lillis. Dexter sisters were Estella who married Marshall P. ![]() Simon Woodard’s paternal grandparents, Charles and Chloe (Lashure) Woodard were also west Sandy Creek pioneers having moved to the vicinity of the Norton Road in 1822 from Hoosick. Dexter Levi Woodard was a direct descendent of Simon Hadley, who with Clark Wilder, had made a clearing in 1806 on today’s Lake Road. He had lived over eighty-three years in the home where he died, having moved there with his father’s family when a child from the ‘Stephen Hadley’ property north of the Little Sandy and the Ackerman Hills where he had been born July 9, 1880.ĭexter was the second of the three children of Simon Hadley Woodard and Lydia (Canough) Woodard. Woodard was the oldest resident of “The Valley,” that segment of the White and Sage School Districts in the western part of Sandy Creek Township where he had spent his whole life. Woodard died at age 91 on Octoat his family home, Wolf Creek Valley Farm, closing out a life time which had spanned the years from the era of hand labor and foot-travel to the age of nuclear power and moon-walks. Our goal was to document as many farms as possible and do it an interesting format.Įxter L. Woodard is abundantly evident in the Town of Sandy Creek and Boylston Farm Book. This photo was taken in front of the Woodard farmhouse.* Now the town is on the way to have permanent and improved highways.” Pictured is worker Ralph Trumbull. This is one of the best machines on the market. Sandy Creek News: March 16, 1905: “The Buffalo, a 25 horse-power Buffalo Pitts road roller and engine combined. Woodard print, shows an early piece of road equipment.
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