The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-10-14
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them from their bondage, Their name,
'Godin, had by this time become thor
oughly Quakerizsd, through the steady
dislike OF tho Quakora TO all things
French, and by easy transitions from
Godin to Goodin, aud finally to Good
ing, which name has since been TO-
tanned by their defendants.
About 1898 John Gooding brought hll
sister Hester Goodiug to ShepherdsIown
and set up a. silvOrsmith. lilo met
hia fate in the pretty MlSa Hannah
Warner, and they were married, Their
children We're; DR.. Levi GoOding, Jacob
Goodlng and Hannah GOoding; none Of
these three wero ever married, but lived
aud died on the Gooding farm, in Ohio
county. Hester GOoding married DR.,
QuiglOy, OF BurgOttsIoWn, ia. They
had no Issue, Eliza GOoding married
James Kelly, oil Ohio county, ", Va,
They, too, hal no issue. Mary Good
ing, born December lG, 1893. in Wheel
ing, married Hon. Andrew +. Woods,
being his second wife, No i0Iue was
born TO them. The fret Miss Hester
Gooding married Mr.. SwOariuEen, OF
Shephavdstown, but no died shortly
afterwards, leaving no children.
Habuon Warner married Miss Mary
Fulton, born in Northumberland
county, Pa. Their children We're: Eliza
Warner, never married; Maria Warner.
married DR.. James Hughes, OF 81. Glars.
yiliei James Warner, married Mlsl Jane
Dare; Mynkoop Warner, married Miss
Minerva Boone, granddaughter ot
Daniel Boonei Evaino Warner, born
November Is, 1890, never married.
About 1899 John GOoding, With his
family and widowed sister, Mrs. Hester
Gnoding SwearlngOn, together with his
brother.in.law, Zsbulon Warner, aud
his family, removed over the Allegheny
Mountains from Shephordstown to
Wheeling. 1t wac 4 rough, psrilouI,
iaIiguiuG trip Of eight weeks, without
roads or bridges or hotels.
John Goodlng bought ground on tho
wharf, now Water street, anu built tho
United States Hotel, afterwards called
the "Sprigg House." aud which is
known to-day rs the Hotel Windsor
Ha died there, and his widow sold tho
hotel and removed to tho Gooding farm,
Xabu!on Warner crossed to MarIln'S
Ferry, whore he resided for few years,
and thOu removed toSt. ClRirsvlle, ONO.
Wnilo on a visit to Portsmouth, Ohio,
he took sick aud died and Was buried
there. His widow, Mrs. Mary (FullOm
Warner, then returned, about 1925. to
Marlborough, Pa, takinZ with her her
children, Eveine aud Eliza, hut in
iaw years she returned to st. Claire
willie, where she died.
The widow, Mrs. Heater Swearingen,
soon after her arrival in Wheeling be-
como tho wife OF Maior John Good, her
for she had bought tho Foil
farm, about three hundred ucres OF
land lying west Of the Prior place. to
tho west side Of Wheeling Park. Tho
land west OF that IS lar as the Blanch.
ard farm, belonged to Mr.. Bell, and Rd.
Joining this TO the west was tho Major
John Good farm, Of three hundred
acres, on which no had built tho resi-.
denco and mills, known to-day na the
Bedillion mills. All theso farms ran
from Wheeling crock to tho top Of tho
Mills on tue north, and were divided
among tho heirs OF Major John Good
Mrs. Hester lGoodIng) Good in 1903
sold thirty acres OF the EotT farm to her
nephew, Jacob Goodlng, ON which he
built a house, and tho place has ALWAYS
been known US the Gooding farm. In
this house he, his sisters. Hannah aud
Mary, aud hid brother, DR., Levi, his
mother, Hannah iWarnar) GoodiHg.
ana his aunt, Mrs. Hester (Goodlng.
Swearingen) Good, lived q part oilthoir
lives and died there.
The children OF Mai or John Good and
Hester Good, we're, William aud Mary
Good, never married, but lived aud
died on the Cooling iarm. John Good
married Miss Mary Chapliuo, Of Wheel.
ing. No children. Major Moses Good,
married Miss Joanna Caldwell, a sister
Of Mrs. sobieski Brady. Benoni food,
married Miss Jane McMschen, Il sist
OF Mrs. DR.. Hildreth, and father Of the
late Hon. Hanson Good. Hester Good,
married Hon. Daniel Ellington; tler
granddaughter is Mrs. Albert Whit.
aker.
Elizabeth Good, married. Hon. An.
drew =. Woods, Their children we're:
lion. Robert WoVla, marrioi Miss
Amelia Shriver, OF Wheeling. William
Woods, married Hs' Sarah Armstrong,
OF Wheeling Rev, John Woods, mar.
rici Miss Ellen Gray, OF MoundsyIlle.
Julia Woods. married Alexander W.,
Jacobs, ni Ohio county. Martha Wooda,
married. Roy. Joshua Cowpiand, Of Phil.
aicipEil.
Hester Woods married George r.
TngIO, Of Whagliug. Their Cuildron
were Mrs. o. Z. Dewey aud Mrs, J. D.
Culbeftson.
Elizabeth Good Woods, tho GrFt wife
OF Hon. Andrew p. Woods, dtei about
1850. lIo married about 1865, a. his
second vile. Miss Mary Goodlng, born
December 10. 1899; sho was cousin Of
the lifst Mrs. Androw =. Woods.
On tue death OF Hon. Andrew T..
Woods in 1852, his widow, Mrs. Mary
Wood removed to tho old Goodinr
farm. where sno resided until her death
IN 1901
In 1864 Mira. Mary Woods, who was
tue only living child OF John Goodins
aud Hannah Warner, tho orphans that
had been brought from Now Castle aud
Bryn Mlwr to ShGphOrdstnwn. ". Va,
wrote to her cousin, Miss Eyalno War.
ncr, born in 1890 who was tho only
living child oil tho orphan Hobulon
Warner, who had been brought To
shcphordNtown by his aunt. Mira Wyn.
koop. to come To her home, tho old
Gooling farm, AMI pass the ro't Of her
days with hoG. Two moro entertaining,
hoapitablc, charitable, unaisnming. 70.
liglously inclined, delightful ladies
could not DO found In Ohio county. A
dinner at their home was feast to 10
always roncnborol as "rod lclior
day" by their guests.
IInty vary humlrnin sopm tina liv0a Of