White Journal, Page 53, Woods' Life

[I commenced a Book] and Stationary Store in Mt Vernon Mo.

As Woods writes, service records prove that he served out the last few months of the war with the 93rd New York regiment until his discharge in May of 1865. Records show that his daughter, Ella, did die in 1869, followed by her mother, Mary Emma, in 1885. He married Pennsylvania native Mae Laverall Woods on January 19, 1889. Woods can be found on the 1870 census, where he is listed as a retired stationer. He is found again on the 1880 census with his wife, daughter Ella, and two sons, David and Blackburn that he does not mention in his journal. He and his new wife, but not his two sons, then appear on the 1900 census, where he is listed as a farmer. He died soon after, on March 5, 1901 in Lawrence County, Missouri. He is buried alongside both of his wives and daughter, Ella Woods, in the Woodland Cemetery near Springfield, Missouri.