Zadock Jacob Goodwin, Sr

Wrong parents? Source: "Appendix F: The Goodwins of Harrison County, West Virginia"

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The Pension Office records show that John Goodwin was born in 1762 in Montgomery county, Md., and enlisted from Harrison county, Va., in 1778, aged sixteen. He is said to have had a younger brother Edward, who lived in Harrison county; and it is also asserted that Zadock Goodwin, who married Mary Winters, was not a son of this John. These facts indicate that several brothers, some very young, were living in Harrison county in 1778, and presumably their parents had come with them from Montgomery county, Md. They seem not to have been related to the John and Joseph, Appendix C.

The following is most likely true, whoever his father actually is:

Zadock Goodwin (John) was married October 15, 1818, at Middleville, Harrison county, by Jesse H. Goss, to Mary Winters, who was born October 10, 1803, in Harrison county, a daughter of Matthias and Martha (Johnson) Winters. By occupation he was a farmer, in politics a Democrat, and in religion a Baptist. They resided on Beards Bun until in 1852, removing in the spring of the year to Lewis county, and in the fall of the same year they moved to Jackson county, where he died June 1, 1855. She died October 21, 1879. Children: i. Matthias W., born March 2, 1820, married Amanda Britton; ii. John E., born January 14, 1822, married, first, Mary Curry; second, Mrs. Er.U Stone; iii. Emily Adaline, born August 8, 1824, married John Kayser; iv. Martha M