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  James W. Boyd ~ Narcissa Goodfellow

Wayne County, Ohio

William Goodfellow was born in the county of Caven, Ireland, and at the age of ten years he immigrated to America with his parents, two sisters and two brothers; and the family settled in Center County, Pennsylvania. Thence he removed in 1816 to Wayne County, Ohio and operated a farm in Plain Township, where he resided for nearly fifty years. He served as Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas from 1824 for a term of seven years, receiving his commission from Governor Jeremiah Morrow. His house, situated on the Ashland road, was widely known for its hospitality. In politics and on moral reforms Judge Goodfellow had the fortitude or the fortune generally to work with minorities, as he became early an old line Whig, and was from the first a radical anti-slavery and anti-liquor man. He had the honor of organizing and being President of the first temperance society in Wayne County, and lived to have all of his long debated principles inaugurated in State or National administration or enactments.

For more than half a century he was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, most of the time filling various of its laical offices, and in its communion he died in 1864. Miss Jane Allison, three years his junior, became his wife in February 1809, and survived him two years. She was a beautiful character, a sincere Christian, an unobtrusive, discreet and saintly woman. Their children were: Matthew Allison Goodfellow, married Drusilla Culbertson in 1833; Jane Goodfellow, married Rev Jesse Warner 1830, died 1843; Louisa Catherine Goodfellow, married Andrew Glenn 1835, died 1836; NARCISSA Goodfellow, MARRIED JAMES W. BOYD, 1841; Amelia Goodfellow, married William Anderson 1840, died 1844; William Goodfellow, married Mary E. Dempster 1851; Juliette Goodfellow, married Rev L. Dorland, 1846; Isaiah R. Goodfellow married Susan A. Deming 1854; Maria Louisa Goodfellow, married C.W. Beer, 1868, Mr. Beer dying at Sandusky, October 4, 1871.

Source: "History of Wayne County, Ohio, From the Days of the Pioneers and  
First Settlers to the Present Time", published in 1878, by Robert Douglass

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