Mordie Lee Woods was born in 1883 in Weston Missouri and Minnie Maude Pettegrew was born 1884 in Olathe Kansas. Their ancestral and related surnames include Cave Demarest Gearhart Graves Gustin Hardy Howe Lipscomb Lower Pettigrew/Pettegrew Simpson Soward Springle/Sprenkle Stevenson Westerfield Woods and Wright among others. This is an informal narrative accompanied by family tables and the lives of principal individuals and many related lines. It is one of the stories of the expansion of America.