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Happily, I spoke too soon when I said there would be no more articles written by V.G. Johnson. In clearing old emails from my computer, I found V.G.'s reply to Wayne Grohn of Oldsmar, Fl. Wayne asked, "Does any one know how many branches of the Goddard families there are?" V.G.'s reply which she called, "Wayne's own personal article," appears on page 7 of this newsletter. I am glad I was in the loop to receive a copy of the email so we can all enjoy "Wayne's personal article."

Have you checked lately to see about Phil Goddard of London, England, who began walking across the U.S. in June 2006? According to his website: www.justgiving.com/uswalk, Phil made it to CA in April 2007. You may remember reading about his early travels in NY and PA last summer.

Jim Goddard of Lititz, PA, tells us, "The June/July 2007 issue of Traditional Home magazine contains an excellent article about the Keno twins, Leigh and Leslie, of Antiques Roadshow fame, written by Doris Athinos. The story contains a list of the Keno's top ten all-time favorite furniture makers. JOHN GODDARD, Newport (1723-1785), is on the list along with such famous names as Thomas Chippendale and George Nakashima."

Jim seems to keep up with his reading better than I. My magazine find is from The Magazine Antiques, November, 2000. An advertisement of "Paintings by Mr. & Mrs. John F. Carlson exhibited at Jim's Antiques Fine Art Gallery in Lambertville, NJ," included is this information about the artists: Margaret Goddard Carlson (1882-1964) and John Fabian Carlson (1874-1945).

Here is a tip if you are job hunting, do something different so your application stands out. My grandfather, E.F. Goddard, was an educator. One of his early positions was at Ottway School in Greene County, TN. I am told that when he applied for the Ottway position there were a hundred applications for the one position. However, the school officials doing the hiring had an easy choice. My grandfather was the only applicant who provided a stamped self-addressed envelope with his application. I am told that is why he got the job. He met my grandmother, Minnie Mae Doty, while teaching at Ottway, and they were married in 1905. A stamped self-addressed envelope probably wouldn't do the trick today, but it does point out that sometimes it helps to do something just a little different.

An eBay item I have noticed several times, but never mentioned is A Buddhist Bible by Dwight Goddard. Well, you can read about Dwight, thanks to Russell A. Lovell, Jr. of Sandwich, MA.

The Goddard Gate at Brown University in RI is a postcard I found on eBay, but I didn't pursue it for additional information until I met Kathleen Goddard Curtis of Durham, CT. Mrs. Curtis came to the Gathering in Hartford, CT, last summer and gave me a picture she had recently taken of the Goddard Gate. You can read about Brown University's Goddard Gate on page 9.

Now for a couple of clues which I hope some of you will know more about. Maybe you can even send an article. Selling on eBay recently was a 1964 calendar from the business of S.B. Goddard & Son Co. Their business was insurance, their address 15 Pleasant Street, Woburn, MA. Also on eBay, a Temagami, ON, 1950 travel folder done by the Chamber of Commerce includes an advertisement for the Goddard's Hotel, Phone 11 and Zimmerman's Camp. According to the folder, Temagami is 285 miles north of Toronto. I included Zimmerman's Camp because some of our members are Zimmermans. A check of the Chamber of Commerce website for Temagami yielded no Goddard Hotel or Zimmerman's Camp, but the area is still a tourist destination.

Not all the stories mentioned by Anne appear on the website. We invite you to become a member and receive the Newsletter to "read all about it."

Small town parades are something special to the folks who live there. Often these parades don't require registration or sign-ups, just show up riding your horse or vehicle of choice or maybe even walk the parade route.

Greenback has been having a 4th of July parade longer than most folks can remember. This year's parade was really special for Roy and Betty Goddard as they were the Grand Marshalls leading the parade in a snazzy convertible.

Roy is a founding member and past president of the GH & GS. Roy and Betty's daughter, Teresa, is our current president.

Pictured are Kenneth L.Y. Goddard, of West Virginia, at the microphone, and future country music star Brad Paisley, playing the guitar. In the background are Janet Goddard Baxter and Beulah Talkington. The picture, provided by Ken, was taken at a Goddard reunion, ca. 1980.

In addition to his grandfather, in his early days Brad took guitar lessons from Clarence Goddard. Brad, whose recordings have sold in the millions, is a nominee for the 2007 American Music Awards for Favorite Male Artist. (P.S., he won.)

When some members of the GH & GS were gathering in CT, on June 23, 2006, six of Solomon Goddard's descendants traveled to Round Knoll Cemetery, Jefferson County, IL, to place the restored tombstones of Solomon Goddard (William, Francis) and his granddaughter, Lucy J. (William, Francis, Solomon, Francis) back on their graves. The land for the Round Knoll Cementary was a part of the 40 acres Solomon was granted for his service in the Battle of New Orleans. He deeded the land to Jefferson County, and for many years it has been a forgotten cemetery. All terrain vehicles (ATV's) racing up the "knoll" destroyed many tombstones. Solomon and Lucy's were the only stones remaining in a large area we believe was the burial grounds of several of Solomon's family. Sadly, they can only be marked by markers reading "unknown". Thanks to the efforts of many Jefferson County volunteers, the cemetery is being restored and has been photographed and published on the web. On a search for information about Solomon, we not only found where he was buried but were able to view a photo of his broken headstone. Herman Goddard, Divemon, IL, removed the pieces of Solomon's headstone and pieced them back together. Lucy's stone was knocked from its base but not broken. Her stone is the only record of her existence.
Solomon's broken tombstone	Solomon's restored tombstone
l to r: Linda Mondy, Pastor Bob Goddard, Betty Creasy, Mary Ellen Goddard Watson, Herman Goddard, Helen and David Goddard	Lucy's restored tombstone
This is the third restoration of Solomon's stone. After the first restoration a tornado struck Herman's farm and once again Solomon's stone was broken. In an attempt to re-enforce the stone it broke again. Third time was successful, and both stones were repaired and coated with several coats of a type of paint that should withstand the tests of time. Now if we could only do something about the ATV's! Pastor Bob Goddard (a descendant of Solomon's son Francis and his wife Ruth Fitzgerrell) conducted a prayer service when the stones were re-laid.

The plaque on the Goddard Gate at Brown University reads, "In loving remembrance of William Goddard, class of 1846, chancellor 1888-1907, these gates are given by his daughter, Hope Goddard Iselin, 1910."

The picture at the right was contributed by Kathleen Goddard Curtis and taken in the spring of 2006. The picture below of the gates is from a postcard which has a 1911 postmark.

The following information appears in Encyclopedia Brunoniana by Martha Mitchell, © 1993 by the Brown University Library. It is used here by permission of the author and the University and may not be copied or further distributed without permission.

As the third oldest college in New England and the seventh oldest in America, Brown was the Baptist answer to Congregationalist Yale and Harvard; Presbyterian Princeton; and Episcopalian Penn and Columbia. At the time, it was the only one that welcomed students of all religious persuasions (following the example of Roger Williams, who founded Rhode Island in 1636 on the same principle). Brown has long since shed its Baptist affiliation, but it remains dedicated to diversity and intellectual freedom.

The history of Brown tells of a university undergoing constant change. Founded in 1764 as the College of Rhode Island in Warren, Rhode Island, the school registered its first students in 1765. It moved in 1770 to its present location on College Hill, overlooking the capital city of Providence. In 1804, in recognition of a gift from Nicholas Brown, the College of Rhode Island was renamed Brown University. The first women were admitted in 1891 with the establishment of the Women's College in Brown University. This marked the beginning of eighty years of a coordinate structure for educating women within the University. Later known as Pembroke College, the women's college was merged with Brown in 1971.

William Goddard (1825-1907), tenth chancellor of the University, was born at Potowomut Neck in Warwick on Christmas Day in 1825, the son of William Giles Goddard and Charlotte Rhoda Ives. After graduation from Brown University in 1846, he went to Europe, and during the Revolution of 1848 he carried secret dispatches from Paris to Rome. He studied law, but did not practice. He was elected to the Common Council from the Second Ward in 1852 and was reelected three more times. In 1857 he was named a trustee of Brown University. During the Civil War hw was a major in the First Rhode Island Regiment under Burnside and a colonel and aide-de-camp on the staff of Governor Sprague. He was present at the Battle of Bull Run and the Battle of Fredericksburg. He retired from military service in 1862. In business, he was a member of the firm of Brown and Ives and of Goddard Brothers, manufacturers of cotton goods. From 1875 to 19090 he was president of the Providence Institution for Savings, a job for which he received no salary. He was Chancellor of Brown from 1888 until his death in Providence on September 20, 1907.

Dr. Henry Edward Goddard spent his life healing the body and soul. He was an ordained minister and later in life became a pioneering physician. His greatest accomplishment came in 1902 when he founded Goddard Hospital in his Brockton Home at 157 Highland Street as a place where mothers and their newborn babies could receive the best care possible in a safe, clean environment.

From the time he was a young boy, Henry Goddard wanted to become a doctor but was persuaded by his father to enter the ministry. He studied at the New Church Theological School in Cambridge and became pastor of the New Jerusalem Church in Brockton following graduation.

After 19 years as a minister, Rev Goddard resigned as pastor of the new Jerusalem Church to pursue his ambition of becoming a doctor. He went back to school, enrolling in Dartmouth Medical School, where he earned his medical degree in 1896. Dr. Goddard then completed his education and training at Harvard Medical School and Boston Lying-In Hospital.

Dr. Goddard had a strong desire to specialize in maternity cases. With this in mind, he founded Goddard Hospital in his home as a one-bed maternity hospital. Goddard Hospital was the first hospital in this part of the state dedicated to obstetrics.

Samuel W. Goddard followed his father Henry's footsteps to become a highly skilled, beloved, and respected physician. Like his father, he was known as a gentle, soft-spoken man who instilled confidence in the patients who came to him for surgery.

Dr. Sam, as he was known by friends and patients, graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1904 and continued his professional training as a general intern at Carney Hospital in South Boston from 1904 to 1906. He then served as resident surgeon at the hospital from 1906 to 1908.

After completing his surgical residency at Carney Hospital, Dr. Goddard joined his father at Goddard Hospital as surgeon-in-chief. With Dr. Goddard's founding of a surgical service, the hospital soon required the construction of a 22-bed annex.

Dr. Goddard was elected hospital president when Goddard Hospital was incorporated in 1919, a position he held until 1948. He retained an active affiliation with the hospital until hsi retirement in 1954. Following his retirement, Dr. Goddard moved to Fort Lauderdale, FL.

Dr. Goddard died at a rest home in Fort Lauderdale on June 8, 1966, at age 84. He was still on the emeritus staff of Goddard Memorial Hospital when he died.

(editors note: Much of the following information appeared in a booklet celebrating the first 100 years of the Goddard Hopital located at 21 Goddard Road.)

When Delores Capitola Deane was born on January 28,1902, she became part of New England medical history. The daughter of shoemaker Eugene Deane and his wife, Annie was the first baby born at the new Goddard Hospital.

Goddard Hospital, located 157 Highland Street, was actually the home of Dr. Henry E. Goddard. Dr. Goddard, a former minister, founded the facility as a one-bed maternity hospital. He was a staunch believer that mothers and their newborn babies could receive better care in a hospital setting rather than at home.

As a result of Dr. Goddard's vision, Goddard Hospital was the first maternity hospital to be established in this part of Massachusetts. A few months after the birth of Delores Deane, another baby was born in Dr. Goddard's office at the hospital. Subsequently, Dr. Goddard purchased the old Goddard Homestead, where Dr. Goddard himself had been born, and removed it from the site of the original Arnone School (formerly Brockton High School) to 21 Goddard Road, where it still stands to this day.

As the surgical practice gained prominence, the need arose again for the construction of another addition. With the construction of the Annex in 1911, the hospital expanded to a bed capacity of twenty-two.

In 1917, the hospital announced the formation of a new corporation headed by Dr. Samuel Goddard for the purpose of expanding into a new facility. The corporation purchased the four-story Goddard Apartments, located at the corner of West Elm Street and Goddard Road, and renovated it into a 37-bed hospital. The hospital opened on September 24, 1918, ahead of schedule because of the high demand for beds caused by the influenza epidemic.

Goddard Hospital celebrated its 20th anniversary in 1922, with Annie Deane, the hospital's first patient as one of the honered guests. The event also included the opening of a new four-story brick and concrete addition. The addition would add fifteen beds, mostly private rooms with baths, and raised the hospital's capacity to around fifty.

In 1923, Goddard Hospital received the seal of approval of the American College of Surgeons as a Class A Institution, placing the hospital in elite company. This year also saw the greatese increase of patients in every department since the hospital opened in 1902. Approximately 1,600 patients were treated, an increase of thirty-two percent over the previous year.

On July 17, 1957, ground was broken for the new hospital to be located on Summer Street in Stoughton. Dr. Samuel Goddard, by this time retired, was among the speakers at the ceremony. By midsummer of the following year, construction on the new $1.4 million Goddard Memorial Hospital was well under way.

Construction of the hospital, was completed in December 1958 and it consisted of 56 private and semiprivate beds. Thousands of people attended dedication ceremonies and the open house on Janurary 19, 1959. Later twenty-nine patients were transferred from the old hospital in Brockton to the new Goddard Memorial Hospital using vans, ranch wagons and ambulances.

Additions came in 1966 and 1982. On October 1, 1993, the first merger in Massachusetts between a religious and secular hospital was announced between Goddard Memorial Hospital and the Cardinal Cushing General Hospital located two miles away in Brockton. Since the merger the Stoughton facility has been called the Goddard Campus of the Good Samaritan Medical Center. In 1999 it became part of the Caritas Christi Health Care System.

Matthew Goddard is an English Goddard and a member of the Goddard Association of Europe. He writes "my family roots are in the Suffolk branch of the family, with my great, great grandfather, Henry Edgar William Goddard, moving to the north Kent area in the mid 1880's. He and his first wife, Mary Ann (nee Nicholls) had 9 or 10 children. Amongst them were Henry W. Goddard (b.c. 1880, Lowestoft, Suffolk) and his sister Edith Goddard (b.c. 1889, Strood, Kent). I have learnt from another distant family member with whom I have recently made a connection, that Edith emigrated to Canada probably in the teens of the last century, I presume she was married at the time. Henry W. left for Canada probably in the 1920's and subsequently moved to the US at the beginning of WW2." If you can help Matthew find descendants of Henry or Edith please contact him at 7880 West Denton Rd., Denton, NE 68339, USA.

New member Amanda Godard Fuller, 605 White Mountain Meadows Dr., Ruidoso, NM 88345, is interested in knowing if there are other members who have Godard ancestors from GA? Her earliest Godard/Goddard ancester is: Luther Edward Godard born 10 Mar. 1857 in Fish Creek, GA, died 20 Jun 1903 in McHenry, Stone Co,. MS.

Russell ROE is looking for answers. He knows that John GODDARD and Mary McTier who settled in Fleming County, KY, are his 5th great grandparents. Their daughter, Leanner, married John LITTLETON and they had a daughter, Ellender, Russ' 3rd great grandmother. She married Edward ROE, son of Joshua and Athaliah ROE. Family lore has it that Athaliah was a Goddard. Does anyone have proof that Athaliah was in fact a Goddard? Russ has inquired before about her, but nothing under Athaliah. She was also referred to as Atha and Athey. Also Russ has heard that she was a cousin to Leanner. Although most think Athaliah was born in Maryland about 1770, some think she was born in England. Any help would be appreciated greatly. Russ has a copy of John's will which he is willing to share.

(Editor's note: The Goddard Book says that Leanner Goddard and John Littleton's daughter was named Eleanor instead of Ellender who married Edward Roe.)

If you can help, write to Russ Roe, 115 Kinder Drive, Morehead, KY 40351.

How can we thank Kathryn Goddard Meyer enough for all she did for the Goddard Association and then the GH & GS? Kathryn passed away January 17, 2007.

She became our first executive secretary in 1986. Most of that time she kept all the records of membership, edited the newsletter, and served as the recording secretary at board meetings. Much of Kathryn's work was done quietly behind the scenes. Kathryn was the first recipient of the Harms Award for outstanding contributions to the GH & GS. Kathryn became the executive secretary emerita in 2000 when her health began to fail. Many of us last saw her in Nashville, TN, at the Gathering in 2002.

Survivors include her husband, Wilmer Meyer; sons, Charles (Regina), Douglas (Barbara), all of Wichita, KS; daughters, Malinda Meyer and Nancy (Steve) Walters, all of Wichita; caregivers, daughter and son-in-law Roxann (Eric Tyson) Meyer of Santa Fe, NM; grandchildren Emily Floyd, Sara Cox, Jessica Carey, Michael and William Meyer, Gabriel Phelan, Max Walters; great grandchildren Emerson and Isaiah Cox, Kalen and Julia Carey, Mickey Meyer.