STEUBEN REPUBLICAN, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1903, page 1, column 6

LOUISA (LETCHER) GOODALE, 29 Jun 1827 - 04 Nov 1903

   Louisa Letcher Goodale was born in St. Lawrence county, New York, June 
29, 1827, and died at the home of her son William, near Hamilton, Indiana, 
Nov. 4, 1903, aged 76 years, 4 months and 6 days.
   When five years of age she moved with her parents to Ohio, where she 
lived until ten years of age, when with her parents she moved to LaGrange 
county, Ind., and about 1840 to Steuben, which remained her home until she 
departed to enter into the rest of the new home, "Not made with hands."  
Sept. 25, 1845, she was united in marriage with Gera L. Goodale, and 
together they shared the burdens and joys of life until his death, April 
30, 1887.  To the union were born seven children, three or whom, Mrs. E. 
D. Creager, Butler, Ind.; G. F. Goodale, Wing, Illinois, and Wm. H. 
Goodale, Hamilton, Ind., survive her and were present at the funeral.  
Mrs. Goodale, while always cheerful and full of hope, lived a life into 
which were crowed very many hours of sorrow.
   Early in life she was converted to Christ and continued a faithful 
member of His church until the end.  Funeral services were held in the 
Christian church in Angola on Friday afternoon, Nov. 6, conducted by Elder 
C. S. Medbury.  Burial in Circle Hill.
   Deceased was a first cousin to President James A. Garfield.  Early in 
her married life, her brother, Amos Letcher and her husband, Gera L. 
Goodale, were running a boat on the Ohio canal, and Mrs. Goodale 
officiated as cook.  On one trip, they met James A. Garfield, (or Jim as 
he was called, then about sixteen years of age) in Cleveland and hired him 
for the summer.  He stayed with them three or four months.  This 
constituted the canal experience of Garfield about which we heard so much 
twenty years ago.
(Picture included with obituary)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
   Louisa (Letcher) Goodale, 29 Jun 1827 - 04 Nov 1903, married Gera L. 
Goodale, 12 Feb 1822 - 30 Apr 1887.  They are buried at Circle Hill 
Cemetery, Angola, Steuben County, Indiana.
CHILDREN:
   Lucelia (Goodale) Newcomer, 29 Mar 1847 - 08 Apr 1887, married Jerome 
Newcomer.  Lucelia is buried at Circle Hill.  Jerome's burial place not 
known.
   William H. Goodale, 1850 - 1931, on 15 Sep 1872, married Harriet 
(Gochenaur) Goodale, 1851 - 1925.  They are buried at Circle Hill Cem.
   Albina Goodale, born about 1862.
   Mary May Goodale, 10 May 1864 - 12 Jun 1882, buried at Circle Hill Cem.
"History of Steuben County, Indiana, 1885," page 851 lists the following:
    Settled in Richland Township before 1840:
     William Letcher, 13 Feb 1790 - 31 Jan 1851, buried at Powers Cem.
     Henry Letcher, 21 Jan 1814 - 01 Feb 1855, buried at Powers Cemetery.  
(He married Juliaett (Goodale) Letcher who died 21 Dec 1851, aged 33 
years, 11 months and 23 days.
     George Letcher, burial place unknown, (married Lura Phelps on 08 Jan 
1840 in Steuben County, Indiana.
"Cemeteries of Steuben County, Indiana, 1990," by Audree Seibel Lewis, 
Vol. 1, pages 745, 746; Vol. 2, pages 1122, 1348.
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