Goodbar - Derickson G - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

 

D G. Goodbar, retired farmer, Whitesville, a grandson of  Joseph Goodbar, one of the two boys born in England and left  orphans, early in the last century. Joseph was taken by a sea  captain and followed a seafaring life. Returning to England and  failing to find his brother, he came to America and settled in  Virginia, and there he reared a family. His son John H., the  father of our subject, after his marriage to Miss Rachel  Hostetter, went to Kentucky, where he settled, farming for many  years. In 1829 he, with his family, excepting one son, came to  Montgomery County, Indiana, and settled in Scott township. He was  among the first to teach in the pioneer schools of the township.  He held the office of trustee of Scott township successively for  eighteen years, and represented this County one term in the state  legislature for a salary of two dollars per day. For many hears  his nearest market of La Fayette, Cincinnati, and points on the  Ohio river, through a vast wilderness without roads or bridges.  He came to the County by the usual mode, that of horses and  wagon, oxen and cart. Mr. Goodbar died in 1870 at the honorable  old age of eighty-seven years, after a long life of usefulness,  loved and respected by all who knew him. Dickison G. Goodbar was  born in Virginia, May 6, 1813. He came from Kentucky with his  parents, to this County, in 1829 and thus become one of the early  settlers. October 4, 1848, he married Miss Mary F. Prieste, a  native of Putnam County, Indiana, and January 6, 1850, his son,  John C., was born, and January 22 his wife died. He has never  since married, and is now living on his excellent farm of 400  acres in the northeast corner of Scott township, with his son,  who married Miss Kezia Epperson. She was born in Putnam County,  December 31, 1848. They have one son, Walter J., born February 2,  1872. ROSEBRIAR@EARTHLINK.NET Harry L Bounnell