From: John S. Woodbury
To: 'George Waller'
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 12:15 PM
Subject: RE: C-of-A's and Related Information
George,
Attached are some digital photos of the Coat of Arms I hold. The documentation is limited to the writing on the
back of the CoA which is mostly faded with time. The best I can read is: “Under Royal Patronage, our different
Coats of Arms were conferred upon the ancient Woodbury’s the first on record dated 1006 AD in England, County of
Somersetshire”
I am not sure if the colors will come out, and the best I can describer it is the top form of the image (Lion Rampant?)
is black, the feather of the arrow and the
tip of the arrow are an olive drab as is the windings around the feet of the image. The windings alternate with
black and olive drab. The top one third of the
shield is black,
The scalloped area below is an olive drab, and the checques are alternating gray and rose color. The bottom third
is again olive drab with a black shadowed
right edge.
The name Woodbury is written with a red W and black letters oodbury. The ribbon beneath is pink. Of course, the
colors have probably faded some. So the
colors could have been a lot brighter originally. I inherited this from my great, great Uncle, Merton Grover Woodbury
who passed it down to my father
Prentice Searles Woodbury. The Coat of Arms is referred to in another document that I hold, each page of this “diary”
contains an embossed crown as a sort
of seal in the upper right hand corner, again, of each page. It was also passed to me from Uncle Merton to my Dad
to me.
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I hope this information is useful, and certainly any verification or authentication discovered during the course
of the reunion, or other efforts would be greatly
appreciated.
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