A gracious volunteer has snapped photos of the Goodell family gravestones in the Prairie Hill Cemetery near Bradley, Clark County, South Dakota. Levi Lincoln Goodell and his wife Sarah Elizabeth Parker are buried there as is their son Bert and his wife Nora Frances George, daughter of Wesley Calvin George and Rebecca Lurana Poteet. Wesley [...]
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I was poking around Ancestry.com yesterday and happened upon a record for Jacob Frederick George, the older brother of my great grandmother Nora Frances Goodell. He went by the name Fred, and often in official documents, Frederich. I was looking for information on their grandparents Jacob Will and Elizabeth George, who continue to elude me. There [...]
One researcher of my Goodell ancestors is claiming that the family goes back to France and a man named Thomas Goodelle. He was born around the year 1480 in France. Later, the family converted to Protestantism, joining the Reformed Church of France, commonly known as the Huguenots. It is unclear if Thomas or his grandson Robert was the one [...]
Seeing recipes in the paper today about winning entries at the State Fair reminded me of my great grandmother’s cinnamon rolls. A few days my mother told me about some of her recipes. My dad didn’t think she was much of a cook, but apparently she did have a talent for baking. One of my [...]
I’ve found a book at the public library, Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates That Defined America by Allen C. Guelzo, with details of the 1858 campaign in Illinois for the U.S. Senate seat. The race was between Democrat Stephen Douglas and Republican Abraham Lincoln. The duo traveled widely in the state, formally debating eight times mano a mano. The major reasons I [...]
On April 7, 1862, Union soldiers led by General Ulysses S. Grant defeated Confederates at the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee. The 55th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment, in which two of my relatives served, was part of the battle. These two, Levi and James Goodell, had a younger brother named Hiram who joined a different [...]
Civil War Records
Posted: March 13, 2011 in 123rd Illinois Infantry, American Civil War, American Revolution, GOODELL, PARKERTags: Civil War
Don Gates, a cousin of mother, sent me copies of the Civil War files of four relatives in the summer of 2008. Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 From: sodakdon1@cox.net To: mrmayor@hotmail.com Subject: Civil War Records Aaron: I have civil war records for: — James Goodell [father of Levi Lincoln Goodell]. James was a private in [...]
I find the wonkish term SecDef quirky and cool. It’s short for Secretary of Defense. Right now, I am watching Secretary of Defense Robert Gates give testimony today before Congress on C-SPAN2. A friend of mine has a small, portable HD TV, which is plugged in to a Comcast signal. Some of the channels have terrific [...]
January 30, 1861
Posted: January 30, 2011 in Abraham Lincoln, American Civil War, GOODELL, Illinois, PARKERA writer with The New York Times has a great piece on Abraham Lincoln in Illinois just prior to heading to Washington for his inauguration. My Parker and Goodell relatives were living in the area at the time. I think it’d be hard not to know him. Lincoln was a lawyer and local politician for [...]
Family Name History
Posted: October 2, 2010 in BELOW, BOAL, CHITTY, CONNER, DARLING, DOTY, GEORGE, GOODELL, HAY, HILL, NEAL, NORTHROP, NORTHRUP, PARKER, RADDE, REYNOLDS, SHANNON, Surnames, TIDD, VAN NOTE, WALKERI came across a Family Name History feature at a site called nameLab, so I decided to lookup a few surnames. VAN NOTE Americanized spelling of Dutch Van (der) Not, a habitational name for someone from a place called Ter Noot, for example one in French Flanders. VAN OORT 1. Dutch: habitational name from any [...]
