Descendants of Benjamin Curtis Goodyear



Descendants of Benjamin Curtis Goodyear


Benjamin Curtis Goodyear and Catherine Ramp Goodyear
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     Most of this information was passed on to me by my grandmother and is not the result of my own original research. I consider it a working document and I have included every clue I have, whether it is verified or not. Take it with a grain of salt. Also, I have included little or no information about living people. Some information has been taken from The Goodyear Family: The Descendants of Johan Christian Gutjahr and Margaretha Roesener. Information on Ezra Goodyear and his descendants comes from Bob Goodyear and Coleen Hoar; information on Emma Goodyear Merwin and her descendants comes from World Family Tree CD v. 3 #5273.

Check out Bob Goodyear's web site at www.class-midi.com/gedcom/Goodyear/surnames.html and Coleen Hoar's site at freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hoar.

     Benjamin Goodyear was a great grandson of Johan Christian Gutjahr, who came to America from Merseburg, Saxony, Germany around 1738, according to the book The Goodyear Family: The Descendants of Johan Christian Gutjahr and Margaretha Roesener. Benjamin's grandfather was Ludwick Goodyear, and his parents were John Goodyear (March 11, 1784-December 29, 1864), and Annie Burkholder (March 16, 1783-February 28, 1861). Of Benjamin's siblings, I have pictures of brothers Jake and John and sister Cass Martin. Benjamin was born March 31, 1821 in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. On November 25, 1845 he married Catherine Stoner (1), with whom he had four children: Henry, born about 1847; Ezra, born in 1848; Benjamin, born January 1850; and David, born about 1851. Catherine died October 23, 1852 and Benjamin then married Catherine Ramp (2), on August 9, 1853. She was born June 5, 1826 in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Samuel Ramp and Elizabeth Wurst. She was raised in a denomination called the Church of God. After her marriage, she and Benjamin belonged to the United Bretheren Communion, and in Iowa they joined the Presbyterian church. With his second wife, Benjamin had eleven more children: Anna, born about 1855; Viola, born about 1856; Emma, born March 8, 1857; Martin (a.k.a Samuel), born in October of 1858; Clara Catherine, born June 26, 1860; Ida, born about 1862; Emerson, born April 29, 1863; Curtis, born about 1865; Frances, born in March of 1866; Alverda, born about 1867; and Cora Agnes (Mary), born about 1868. At some point, the family moved to Sheldon, Iowa after apparently spending some time in North Carolina. Catherine died April 22, 1898, and Benjamin died February 20, 1901 at the home of his son Curtis in Ottosen, Iowa.

I.  Henry Goodyear (b. about 1847) (1) died September 10, 1865. I believe he served in the Civil War, but this has not been verified.

II.  Ezra Goodyear (born 1848) (1) lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1901. A Civil War veteran, farmer and policeman, he was married twice, first to Ellen Day-Bintner, with whom he had two daughters, Minnie and Mary Kathryn (Katie), born April 27, 1868. His second wife was Annie Hays and she was a descendant of Revolutionary War heroine Molly Pitcher. She was born January 9, 1857 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and her father's name was John A. Hays. Annie and Ezra were married February 22, 1872 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. They had three children: Eva, born June 18, 1887; Frederick Hays, born September 13, 1889; and Charles Ezra, born August 29, 1897. Ezra died on March 7, 1904 in Manayunk, Pennsylvania, and Annie died December 7, 1942 in Roxboro, Pennsylvania.

III.  Benjamin Goodyear (b. about 1850) (1) lived in Bowmansdale, Pennsylvania in 1901. He was married to a woman named Fanny and they had four children: Jacob B.F., born 1878; Katie, born about 1879; Curtis and David S. Benjamin was a railroad worker.

IV.  David Goodyear (b. about 1851) (1) lived in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1901. He married Rebecca Schulz (b. about 1851) in December 1869. They had had seven children: Mary Alice (Mamie), born about 1870; Jacob H., born in 1873; Susan Ellen (Susie), born November 25, 1886; Emma Moore, born September 15, 1891; Johnson, born September 15, 1891; David Addison, born February 11, 1895; and Beatrice M., born about 1897. David Sr. died March 14, 1918 in Dickinson Township, Cumberland Co., PA and Rebecca died May 21, 1924 in Carlisle.

V.  Anna E. Goodyear (b. 1854) (2) married Phillip R. Stoner (1847-1923) and they lived in Newville, Pennsylvania in 1901. Anna and Phillip had nine children: Sylvan; Clayton; Mary; Reed; Ida; Elsie; Erma; Raymond; and Myrtle. Anna died in 1934 and she and Phillip are buried in East Lawn Cemetery in Sheldon, Iowa.

VI.  Viola Goodyear (b. about 1856) (2) never married. She lived in Ottosen, Iowa in 1901.

VII.  Emma Goodyear (b. March 8, 1857) (2) married Charles Wesley Merwin on December 24, 1896 in Sheldon Iowa. The son of Justus Merwin and Olive Morey, Charles was born in 1851. Charles and Emma lived in Colorado Springs, Colorado in 1901. They had two children: Verna Irene, born October 6, 1897 in Cartridge, South Dakota; and Harold Leroy, born April 20, 1901 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Emma died March 1, 1930 in Long Beach, California, and Charles died in 1936.

VIII.  Martin Goodyear (b. October 1858) (2) was married twice. One of his wives was named Emma and she was born in Illinois in April of 1863. Martin had eight children, although I am unclear about which wife was the mother of which children: Clarence, born October 1882; Mervin, born January 1884; Earl, born September 1886; Elwin, born July 1888; Gaylord, born February 1891; Clayton, born July 1898; Albert and Henry. Martin lived in Sheldon, Iowa in 1901.

IX.  Before her marriage, Clara Catherine Goodyear (June 26, 1860) (2) worked as a nurse in Sheldon, Iowa. She married Josiah Fobes Stone on September 9, 1895. Josiah stood 5' 7 1/2" tall, with blue eyes, dark hair and a fair complexion. Josiah's family history is documented in the book Gregory Stone Genealogy: Ancestry and Descendants of Deacon Gregory Stone of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1320-1917 by J. Gardner Bartlett. He was born March 25, 1837 in New Paris, Ohio and moved with his parents Francis Adams Stone and Nancy Adalaid Harper Stone to Mishawaka, Indiana in 1838. In 1859 he moved to Marshalltown, Iowa. Josiah enlisted with the 13th Iowa Infantry Volunteers, Company H, on November 2, 1861 and fought with them at the battle of Shiloh. He suffered a leg wound in that battle, and shortly afterward had a sun stroke while on drill in Corinth, Mississippi. He was discharged due to disability on February 28, 1863. He was married to Josephine Griffith (b. September 28, 1846) on March 12, 1873 in Marshalltown. Shortly afterward, he and Josie moved to Sheldon Iowa, where at least three of their four children were born: Edith, born July 28, 1874; Delossa, born October 14, 1875; Morton C., born June 22, 1878; and Lyle, born December 30, 1885. Josie died in Sheldon on November 11, 1893 and Josiah then married Clara Goodyear, with whom he had three more children: Alice May, born May 20, 1896; Curtis Benjamin, born March 16, 1898; and a child who was born August 12, 1900 and died three days later. Before the war, Josiah was a farmer, and in later years he had a furniture and undertaking business in Sheldon until it burned down. After that, the family moved to Adrian, Minnesota where Josiah ran a land office. When the bottom fell out of the land boom, the family returned to Sheldon. Alice was born while the family lived in Adrian; they moved back to Sheldon when she was about 18 months old. There, Josiah converted an old barn into a small broom factory, with two employees besides himself. Clara tended a large garden where they grew, among other things, corn, peanuts, celery, and sunflowers, the latter winning a prize at the county fair. Josiah died January 16, 1904 in Sheldon, Iowa and Clara then married and divorced a man named Fred Graesing. I believe it was during this marriage that the family lived on a homestead in Hilmoe, South Dakota, fifteen miles from Presho, before returning to Sheldon. The stay in South Dakota lasted from approximately 1907-1909. Clara developed cancer and fought it for approximately four years before she died at her sister Alverda's home in Sheldon on November 10, 1914.

X.  Ida Goodyear (b. about 1862) (2) married Arthur Stewart and they had four children: Erma, Claire, Elwin, and Leo. Arthur and Ida lived in Valley Springs, South Dakota in 1901.

XI.  Emerson Goodyear (b. April 29, 1863) (2) married Anna Marie Dickman on March 8, 1894. She was born December 16, 1871 in Illinois City, Illinois, the daughter of Carl and Wilhelmina Dickman. Emerson and Anna farmed in Sioux County, Iowa and there they had four children: Ethel; Elmer Benjamin, born December 12, 1894; Gladys; and Edith. Emerson died November 1, 1930 and Anna died November 13, 1958.

XII. Curtis Goodyear (b. about 1865) (2) married a woman named Anna and the had one daughter, Dorothy. They lived in Ottosen, Iowa in 1901.

XIII. Frances Goodyear (b. March 1866) (2) never married. She lived in Sheldon, Iowa in 1901.

XIV. Alverda Goodyear (b. about 1867) (2) married Frank Powers and they had one son, Sylvan. They lived in Sheldon, Iowa in 1901.

XV. Cora Agnes Goodyear (b. about 1868) (2) died January 31, 1870.

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Standing, left to right: Anna Goodyear Stoner, Frances Goodyear, Emma Goodyear Merwin, Alverda Goodyear Powers Seated, left to right: Clara Goodyear Stone Graesing, Ida Goodyear Stewart, Viola Goodyear

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