Aaron Goodwin

  General Notes:

Aaron Goodwin's father, John, was born in Ireland and moved to VA where Aaron was born. Aaron moved to the Cumberland Valley ofMD as a young man. He removed from Virginia to the Cumberland Valley in Maryland, where he married Susannah Leisure, per John S. Goodwin, but he may have married his first wife, Susannah Leasure/Lazure/Leisure. in MD, or PA, or KY—two sources give different accounts. They had six children. In 1790, with his family, he moved past the Old Fort (later Brownsville, Fayette County, PA) and by flatboat to Maysville, Kentucky. They settled at Hinkston Station, KY, (later Harrison Co.) where Susannah died. Some of the children remained in Kentucky with their mother's people. Others went with Aaron to Champaign County, Ohio, where in 1803 he married Mary Chapman of Hamilton County, OH, who removed from Virginia to OH "at a very early age." They moved to Urbana, OH, and began their family. Due to his prejudice against slavery, Aaron and Mary moved from Kentucky to a place in Illinois in 1809, settling 12 miles east of St. Louis. Some of the children from the first marriage left the family there to settle in MO and the Iowa/Illinois border. Deciding to return to Ohio in 1812, he stopped 12 miles east of Princeton, Indiana. Judge John S. Goodwin says, "Being pleased with the appearance of the country, and winter approaching, he took possession of an abandoned log house, where he remained with his family through the winter, and he then settled half a mile north of Washington Indiana, where he died 26 October 1828. Our Aaron Goodwin was a teacher and farmer. He had six children by each wife. His daughter, Achsah (Axie) was the first of his family to be born in IN. He was a farmer and teacher.
Susannah and Aaron had 5 sons and one daughter before she died. Aaron went back to Ohio and married Mary Chapman. The sons stayed with their mother's people in KY.

Aaron married Mary Chapman.

Aaron next married Susannah Leasure.