Anne Madelaine MICHAUX

   Other names for Anne were Mrs. Anne Madeleine WOODSON and Mrs. Richard WOODSON.

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  General Notes:

Lived to be 86 years old. Previously identified as Agnes Ann Madalin Michaux (Jody's 5th Great Grand Mother) who marries Richard Woodson of Popular Hill. The Virginia Historical magazine says there is no such Agnes Michaux. She is in fact Agnes Woodson, sister to Richard and incorrectly linked as his wife Agnes Ann Madalin. As a result some researchers believed there was an error to the name and created a Agnes Michaux.

The Michaux children were raised under strict yet tender Christian training. She valued this training sufficiently enough to be willing to suffer for it. Ann and Richard had numerious offspring, but only two survived. At Popular Hill she had the opportunity to display her sterling qualities, which attracted wide connections and a large circle of friends.

Bishop Meade is quoted as saying, "The tradition of Mrs Woodson's many virtues is preserved among her numerous descendents to this day. Her strong character and devoted piety appear to have made and indelible impression on those who had the happiness to know her. And this I believe, gave them respect not only for relegion, but for the particular Protestant faith, of which she was so brillaint an ornament. These Michaux women were among the few who stood out from their time, and not to be chronicaled simply as 'wives of so-in-so'. Daughters of Huguenot refugees from France via Holland, they were a numerious and powerful influence in the development of the Southside Virginia. Indomitable, resourceful, intensity and unswervingly Calvinist, inventive, educated and entertaining, even while poverty-smitten exiles in the wilderness, they were artist of life. The solid young planters who married them could count themselves blessed. Their force of character changed the social makeup of the whole countryside, for their children were numerous, and the blood mingles with that of many stocks".

Anne married Richard WOODSON. (Richard WOODSON was born about 1709 in Prince Edward, Virginia, USA, "Poplar Hill".)