Lilla Sophia Woodhull

Lilla Sophia Woodhull

Female 1870 - 1954  (83 years)


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  • Name Lilla Sophia Woodhull  [1, 2, 3, 4
    Birth 28 Sep 1870  Sayville, Suffolk, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 5, 6
    Gender Female 
    Name Lillian 
    Death 2 Jun 1954  Los Angeles, California, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 6
    Burial Vinton, Benton, Iowa, United States of America Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I17458  My Genealogy
    Last Modified 17 Sep 2023 

    Father Samuel Brewster Woodhull,   b. 6 Jul 1833, Sayville Long Island New York Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 Oct 1907, Islip, Suffolk Cnty, NY Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 74 years) 
    Mother Julia Sophronia Laws,   b. 22 Oct 1837, Suffolk, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 14 Jul 1917 (Age 79 years) 
    Marriage 15 Jun 1856  Islip Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    Family ID F7234  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Rev Charles Howard Plattenburg,   b. 23 Jun 1871, Dover, Lafayette, Missouri, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1948 (Age 76 years) 
    Marriage 9 Jul 1895  [2
    Children 
     1. Josephine Plattenburg,   b. 1 Aug 1898   d. Yes, date unknown
     2. Adelaide Plattenburg Amen,   b. 6 Aug 1898, Ashland Mans, Ohio Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 5 May 1988 (Age 89 years)
    Family ID F7418  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 27 May 2025 

  • Notes 
    • Notes by Julia Otto Wallace written April 1, 2000


      About Aunt Lillian, she married Charles Plattenburgh, who had studied for the ministry and advanced to be the Minister of the largest Methodist church in Philadelphia. They had two children, Adelaide and Josephine.

      Adelaide was pretty, Josephine was a beauty with her mother being as partial to this as peaches and cream young woman she produced that poor Adelaide was completely passed over.

      Josephine married a man with money, who';s name was Rex. However, she had trouble keeping her marriage together. Adelaide's married last name was Ames. She had four children, some of which I believe were adopted. They had a very happy married life and the last I heard had moved to California where they had an Avocado Farm. However, this was an added career since they were retired, I believe that he taught.

      But, back to Charles Plattenburgh. He had a roaming eye and unfortunately it did not stop there, for they found him up in the balcony with the organist and they weren't in conversation. So he was gracefully retired or asked to leave. So he became a lecturer on a well known circuit (but I don't know which one). He and Aunt Lil would drive from city to city and apparently had a very interesting life touring the country.


      A correction about my Great Grandmother, Juliette Saphronia . She was not born in Patchogue, but in Ridge and Aunt Ida pointed out the little house to me. There were other laws in the area and Ida didn't now them . Also, her real name as I saw on her baptismal certificate was "Juliette".

  • Sources 
    1. [S1677] Ancestry.com, California, U.S., Death Index, 1940-1997 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000)., Place: Los Angeles; Date: 2 Jun 1954.

    2. [S1678] Ancestry.com, 1900 United States Federal Census (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004)., Year: 1900; Census Place: Uniontown, Fayette, Pennsylvania; Page: 11; Enumeration District: 0066; FHL microfilm: 1241411.

    3. [S1679] Ancestry.com, Iowa, U.S., State Census Collection, 1836-1925 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2007).

    4. [S1680] Ancestry.com, U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015).

    5. [S985] , wallace.FTW (N.p.: n.p., n.d.).
      Date of Import: Aug 7, 2002

    6. [S1681] Ancestry.com, California, Death Index, 1940-1997 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000)., Date: 1954-06-02.