Enoch Goodwin

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A Tipton Co. IN biography: ENOCH GOODWIN, father of Leander Goodwin, was bom in North Bend, Ohio, May 30, 1807. He is of pure German descent. His grandfather on his mother's side. Judge Sims, bought of the General Goverment 10,000 acres, at 12 1/2 cents per acre, of the tract ceded by the Indians to the United States after their defeat by Anthony Wayne in 1795. This tract he leased for ninety-nine years. As Cincinnati now stands upon it, the descendants, including Gen. W.H. Harrison and Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks, are looking forward longingly to the time when it will fall into their hands. Mr. Goodwins paternal grandfather and grandmother were Abraham and Elizabeth Hendricks. Enoch was reared on a farm in Lewis County, Kentucky, and had little opportunity to secure an education. In 1831, he settled in Rush County, Ind; moved to Kansas in 1854, and returned in 1858. In 1862 he came to Madison Township. He was married to Melissa Staggs, daughter of James and Sarah (Beard) Staggs, of Fleming County, KY, March 28, 1826. By her he had eight children, every other one of whom were deaf mutes. One of the mutes received a fine education, and was for a time a teacher in Baton Rouge, La. Mrs. Goodwin died September 15, 1846. Mr. Goodwin was next married, in 1848, to Lavina Sills, daughter of Thomas and Rebecca (Rairdon) Sills, of Rush County. Mr. Goodwin has been a Republican ever since the birth of that party. For several years he served as a Justice of the Peace in Rush County. He belongs to the Universalist Church, and his wife to the Christian Church.

Enoch married Melissa Staggs, daughter of James Staggs and Sarah Beard, on 25 Mar 1826 in Fleming Co. KY. (Melissa Staggs was born in 1806 in Fleming Co. KY. and died on 15 Sep 1846 in Rush Co. In..)