[1] For ten years, she served as president of the North Carolina branch of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.

[3] Her grandfather, John S. Chawner, was an English lawyer, who came to the U.S. early in the 19th century, and married and settled in eastern North Carolina.

[4] Woody was educated at Sand Creek and Sugar Plain Friends Monthly Meeting Schools (Indiana),[3] supplemented by training in the Friends' Bloomingdale Academy (Bloomingdale, Indiana), at Albion College (Albion, Michigan),[4] and in Earlham College (Richmond, Indiana), to which was added a year of studies in law and public speaking in University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan).

[3] In all those institutions, coeducation was the rule, and the principles of equality witnessed there gave shape to the pupils' sentiments.

[1] In the spring of 1868, in Thorntown, Indiana,[3] she married John Warren Woody, A.M., LL.B., of Alamance County, North Carolina.

[1] During the first year, she found time to organize several local Unions, and she accepted the Department of Scientific Instruction.

[4] At the second State convention, held in Asheville, North Carolina in October 1884, she was chosen president, a position to which she was elected to for several years thereafter.

The unsettled conditions of society, the novelty of cooperative women's enterprises, the questionings that existed everywhere about the best ways of doing temperance wor, combined to make it unusually difficult in this State, as well as all through the South.