James Woods, an 81-year-old White man, is remembered today mostly through scattered public records rather than headlines. Online memorial and genealogy listings identify him as James Orlando Woods, born October 31, 1903, in Aurora, Lawrence County, Missouri, and recorded as having died on May 31, 1985, with burial in Marionville’s IOOF Cemetery in the same county.
Aurora can be a confusing dot on the map because there is also an Aurora in Michigan, and some case databases and word-of-m
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