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Greenwood for nearly 23 years, until his death in 1939. Woodruff's eldest son, Wallace Green Woodruff acquired the house after his father's death from his many siblings. After his death in 1963, his son Wallace G. Woodruff Jr. acquired the house, and when he died, his five children
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