| The date of the building of the Woodward Home is not know at this time.
Most of the houses located on far West College were built between 1905
and 1915. 1910 and 1920 federal census records show Jesse O. Woodward
was living at this address on College by 1910. The 1920 census
The 1916 map is the first map showing this part of Coleman. The 1916 map
shows the address as 711 West College Avenue, but by 1923 it was know as
717 West College Avenue. Note the small dwelling to the southwest
of the main house, addressed as 717 1/2 West College Avenue, which was
probably a servant's house.
east and north sides Ralph Terry Studio - cc-1250c J. O. Woodward Home taken about 1910 alley to left of picture - West College Avenue to right "... Jessie Woodward (1888 - 1967), never married and was a schoolteacher for some 30 years in Dallas, returning to live in Coleman during her summer vacations. Upon her retirement from that city's school system, she returned to Coleman to live with her sister, Mabel (Woodward) Henson, in the family home on College Avenue for the remaining years of her life. ..." (The Woodward Family, by Mrs. R. L. Barnett, A History of Coleman County and Its People, 1985 edited by Judia and Ralph Terry, and Vena Bob Gates.)
"In 1929, Mrs. Mabel Henson was living at 717 West College Avenue." (Coleman City Directory, 1929 - Hudspeth.)
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