Woodbury and Cortes family from 1860 to 1960
There are many interesting Woodbury characters but most of them are pre-1860 so we will write about them at length another time. Levi Woodbury born in 1789 in Francestown New Hampshire served as Governor of the state and then served in the federal government for many years. He was a US Senator, served in a cabinet for the president, and was on the US Supreme Court. His father Peter Woodbury would have a son named Peter and that line would lead to my relatives.
Charles Perkins Woodbury was a farmer in the Bedford, New Hampshire area for many decades. He married Laura Riddle Gardner in Bedford. Their son Maclean Woodbury only lived to 25 years old but still had two sons. Sadly he died of tuberculosis in Bedford in 1904. Her son Charles Perkins Woodbury would marry into the Stickney family as shown below.
Walter Brooks Stickney was born in Townsend of Massachusetts. He moved with his family to Hollis New Hampshire by the late 1860s. His son Walter Atvan Stickney stayed in the area for his life and was a farmer. His son Earl Hammond Stickney was a farmer and storeowner in Hollis too. Earl had a daughter Elsie Rowena Stickney who had three wives. The first of them Charles Perkins Woodbury would give her her only child Charles the younger.
The Cortes family of Moca in Puerto Rico is mostly a mystery. Obviously, the records of Puerto Rico are not being placed onto the internet so only federal census records are being used. When more is learned about this family more will be reported.
The Caban family comes from the villages of Moca and Marias within Moca County of Puerto Rico. Moca is located within the northwestern corner of the island. They were principally agricultural workers. Tomas Caban was born in 1865 and had nine children with Agueda Acevedo y Mendez. Their son Anicacio Cabán y Acevedo was born in 1885. Children in Puerto Rico receive one last name from their father and one last name from their mother. Hence Cabán y Acevedo was applied to all their children. Anicacio married Mauricia Soto y Vargas and their 10 children had the last name Cabán y Soto. Their daughter Andrea Cabán y Soto married Domingo Cortés y Acevedo and had one child. In Puerto Rico, a woman’s last name changed at marriage to a combination of her maiden name and her husband’s name. She would keep the first of her last names and take the first of her husband’s with a “de” placed in the middle. Andrea thus became Andrea Cabán de Cortes.