On October 26, 1837, Richard Mills Woodward was born on a farm near Clarksburg,
  West Virginia the eighth child of John Mills Woodward and Susanna Gillis of Ireland.
  Dick's ancestry is traced to Anthony Woodward and Hannah Foulkes, who came to
  America before 1679 from England. He was apprenticed to a harness maker; this was
  his trade all through his life. In 1859 he visited John Edmond Woodward, his oldest
  brother, at Saline County, Kansas. Returning to West Virginia, he voted for Lincoln
  and joined Company B 5th calvary, Union Army, at Wheeling, West Virginia, in 1861.
  December 1864, he was a prisoner of war at Richmond.
     Sarah Ellen Lytle was born April 21, 1854, at Charlestown, Illinois, daughter of
  John William Lytle, Illinois, and Catherine Schuyler, New York. Lytles homesteaded
  in Saline County, Kansas. Ellen was engaged to Ayel Woodward when Dick (five feet
  ten inches tall, dark hair, blue eyes, dark complected, handsome, Indian Scout and
  Buffalo hunter) bet his nephew he coul take his girl away from him. Dick, age 33,
  and Ellen, age 16, were married December 25, 1879, at Salina, Kansas. Ayel became
  a merchant in Salina and lived there all his life. Although Dick had a claim near
  Salina, he was an adventurer and in 1871 came to Barber County hunting buffalo. He
  sold meat to the Army; brought the first milk cow to Barber County; freighted hides 
  and bones to Hutchinson and Wichita, returning with merchandise for merchants and
  early settlers. The only year he kept track, he killed 1700 buffalo. Dick's Peak in 
  the Gyp Hills was named for him. Tom McNeal came to Medicine Lodge on one of his
  wagons.
     John Hugh was born January 5, 1872, at Salina. Maud Ellen arried October 17, 1873,
  at Elk Falls and died September 5, 1874. (Her body was later moved to Highland
  Cemetery). Bessie Blanche was born October 17, 1876, at Elk Falls. The family moved
  to Barber County in 1877. During the Indian Scare of 1878, Ellen took her children
  to the stockade at Forrest City. Dick was hunting buffalo and Indians SOMEWHERE!!
     Fortunately for Ellen, her family, father - John W. Lytle, brothers - John and
  Vernon, and sisters - Harriet and Mary, came to Barber County. John and wife, Cindy
  Ahart, homesteaded in the Gyp Hill area. Vernon married May Shepler, homesteaded
  north of Medicine Lodge, and had a harness and saddle shop in Medicine Lodge. Dick's
  brother, Hugh Thompson Woodward, owned a mercantile store in Medicine Lodge. Ellen
  was at Vernon Lytle's farm when Darius Vernon (Rye) was born on her twenty-sixth
  birthday, April 21, 1880. When James Richard was born in 1885 in Medicine Lodge, Ellen 
  had her own home on East Kansas Avenue.
     The Oklahoma Territory opened for settlers in 1889; Dick, at the age of fifty-two,
  feeling stiffled by civilization and another frontier to conquer, couldn't resist
  going. The family moved to Woodward, Oklahoma Territory, where Dick had the "Woodward
  Manufacturing Company," making harness, saddles, holsters, and other leather goods.
     In 1909 Dick and Ellen moved to Sharon, Kansas, still working with leather; Dick
  and his son, Dick, had a harness and shoe shop on Main Street. He suffered from
  Rheumatism and his crippled foot, which had been injured in the war and later in a
  train acident. Ellen enjoyed her flower garden and her grandchildren, especially
  Edith, who was her first granddaughter, after having seven grandsons. Pansies grew 
  under her south window; one of her favorite expressions was "children grow like the
  weeds in a pansy bed." On March 19, 1918, she passed away quietly in her sleep. On
  March 20, 1920, Dick followed her after having two years to remember the times she 
  had followed him - on to another frontier.
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 498 
     Submitted by: Virginia Woodward Measday, Granddaughter