Family Group Sheet
Family Group Sheet
NameJames Goodfellow
Birth6 Mar 1886, Malvern, Mills Co., IA, USA
Death29 Sep 1933, Merriman, Cherry Co., NE, USA Age: 47
Burial1 Oct 1933, Ashland Cemetery, Ashland, Saunders Co., NE, USA
FatherJames Knox Polk Goodfellow (1844-1916)
Children
Birth23 Jun 1909, Ashland, Saunders Co., NE, USA
Death21 Dec 1997, Greeley, Weld Co., CO, USA Age: 88
Birth24 Sep 1912, Wakita, Grant Co., OK, USA
Death3 Feb 1924, Merriman, Cherry Co., NE, USA Age: 11
Burial6 Feb 1924, Ashland, Saunders Co., NE, USA
Birth12 Aug 1915, Merriman, Cherry Co., NE, USA
Death29 May 1967, Ashland, Saunders Co., NE, USA Age: 51
Burial1 Jun 1967, Ashland, Saunders Co., NE, USA
Birth30 Aug 1923, Merriman, Cherry Co., NE, USA
Death25 Aug 2010, NJ, USA Age: 86
Birth14 Sep 1926, Merriman, Cherry Co., NE, USA
Death28 Jul 1991, Minneapolis, Hennepin Co., MN, USA Age: 64
Burial31 Jul 1991, Vanceburg Cemetery, Prairie Farm, Barron Co., WI, USA
Notes for James Goodfellow
James was the "least" of the several brothers according to Vivian Goodfellow Rock, his cousin; daughter of Hugh Goodfellow. I met Vivian and Lawrence Rock when they came to some affair of a child of theirs who lived in Gresham, Oregon in the early 1980's.
My father, Marcus Allen Goodfellow never said much about his father. He told my Mother that his father was lazy and didn't get much work done. Apparently the family got some pipe to bring water into the house and the pipe laid around for years and didn't get put in.
27 March, 2007 I talked for a time with my Aunt Hulda, at this point the only one of her generation who is still alive. She said that her father was a gentle man. The only time she remembered him punishing her was, age 5 or 6, she did something and he swatted her with his straw hat. She said she cried for 2 days it was such a shock that her father was irritated with her.
Hulda told me of the time my father left home for good; about 1930. He was 15 years old and the family had had nothing but worry and trouble from him since he was about ten years old. His horse, given him by his father, had kicked Hulda and was showing a mean streak and Father Jim got the shotgun and put the horse down. Marcus became very angry and told his family as he left they'd never see him again. Jim said, and Hulda believes that it shows how troubled Marcus was, "good." That's all anyone said and Hulda believes they were glad he was gone. She certainly was.
According to Hulda the two oldest children, Bernadine and Marcus were a lot of trouble and had little connection with the other family members. Bernadine in particular was difficult, unhelpful, and eager to get away from the famly while Marcus, according to Hulda, had the family afraid of him to some degree from the time he was ten years old.
Hulda says that Gerald was a very nice boy and so was James, the youngest child. Her father was always tired, and , of course died of a heart attack at age 47. Several of the other men of the family in James generation had heart trouble.
After James, (son of James K.P.) died Clara tried to keep the ranch going but was always short of money. It was during the Great Depression and cattle prices were very bad. She went to Ashland to work there and made a deal with Marcus that he would stay on the ranch and run it while she, Hulda and James were in Ashland. Marcus had married a local girl, generally regarded as not amounting to much, who had some disability, and they were running the ranch. At some point Clara came out to the ranch and found that Marcus had done very little. He and his wife would dawdle the days away and the only thing Hulda could remember that they had done was hunt frogs and eat the legs. It stuck in her mind, it was such a strange thing to do.
Eventually James's brother Ralph found out that James's ranch, now in the possession of his widow, Clara, was going to be forclosed on by the bank. He wrote Clara a letter in which he said that he would "spare Clara the embarrassment of forclosure" and give her a small amout for the ranch. This was told to me by Jack Cobb, who thought Ralph should have helped Clara hold on to her ranch which he could easily haved afforded to do. Jack Cobb was a tall handsome cowboy, (according to Hulda all the girls were in love with Jack and his equaly handsome and talented brother Bill. Their sister, Francis was also very attractive and a fine horsewoman.) Around the year 2003 my wife Janna and I made a visit to Jack and Genervra Cobb who were living in a retirement home in Gordon, Nebraska. Genervra was very near the end of her life and had a difficult time talking to us and remembering much. Jack, on the other hand was very lively for a gent in his 90's and spent most of one Saturday taking us around to look at the various ranches the Goodfellow's had owned South of Merriman including the log cabin on the Niobrara River where my father was born. He may have actually been born in one of his uncle's houses, or maybe at James K.P.'s, his Grandfather's but the family lived in the log cabin. Ralph, Hugh, Jim, and K.P. all had ranches and houses in the area there. They are mostly owned now by Jack Cobb's family, who is the husband of Genevra Goodfellow, Hugh's daughter. He also showed us Ralph's house in town. Some of these family members are burried in the Gordon Cemetery. A more contemorous account is writen in the notes for Ralph Goodfellow.
My father, Marcus Allen Goodfellow never said much about his father. He told my Mother that his father was lazy and didn't get much work done. Apparently the family got some pipe to bring water into the house and the pipe laid around for years and didn't get put in.
27 March, 2007 I talked for a time with my Aunt Hulda, at this point the only one of her generation who is still alive. She said that her father was a gentle man. The only time she remembered him punishing her was, age 5 or 6, she did something and he swatted her with his straw hat. She said she cried for 2 days it was such a shock that her father was irritated with her.
Hulda told me of the time my father left home for good; about 1930. He was 15 years old and the family had had nothing but worry and trouble from him since he was about ten years old. His horse, given him by his father, had kicked Hulda and was showing a mean streak and Father Jim got the shotgun and put the horse down. Marcus became very angry and told his family as he left they'd never see him again. Jim said, and Hulda believes that it shows how troubled Marcus was, "good." That's all anyone said and Hulda believes they were glad he was gone. She certainly was.
According to Hulda the two oldest children, Bernadine and Marcus were a lot of trouble and had little connection with the other family members. Bernadine in particular was difficult, unhelpful, and eager to get away from the famly while Marcus, according to Hulda, had the family afraid of him to some degree from the time he was ten years old.
Hulda says that Gerald was a very nice boy and so was James, the youngest child. Her father was always tired, and , of course died of a heart attack at age 47. Several of the other men of the family in James generation had heart trouble.
After James, (son of James K.P.) died Clara tried to keep the ranch going but was always short of money. It was during the Great Depression and cattle prices were very bad. She went to Ashland to work there and made a deal with Marcus that he would stay on the ranch and run it while she, Hulda and James were in Ashland. Marcus had married a local girl, generally regarded as not amounting to much, who had some disability, and they were running the ranch. At some point Clara came out to the ranch and found that Marcus had done very little. He and his wife would dawdle the days away and the only thing Hulda could remember that they had done was hunt frogs and eat the legs. It stuck in her mind, it was such a strange thing to do.
Eventually James's brother Ralph found out that James's ranch, now in the possession of his widow, Clara, was going to be forclosed on by the bank. He wrote Clara a letter in which he said that he would "spare Clara the embarrassment of forclosure" and give her a small amout for the ranch. This was told to me by Jack Cobb, who thought Ralph should have helped Clara hold on to her ranch which he could easily haved afforded to do. Jack Cobb was a tall handsome cowboy, (according to Hulda all the girls were in love with Jack and his equaly handsome and talented brother Bill. Their sister, Francis was also very attractive and a fine horsewoman.) Around the year 2003 my wife Janna and I made a visit to Jack and Genervra Cobb who were living in a retirement home in Gordon, Nebraska. Genervra was very near the end of her life and had a difficult time talking to us and remembering much. Jack, on the other hand was very lively for a gent in his 90's and spent most of one Saturday taking us around to look at the various ranches the Goodfellow's had owned South of Merriman including the log cabin on the Niobrara River where my father was born. He may have actually been born in one of his uncle's houses, or maybe at James K.P.'s, his Grandfather's but the family lived in the log cabin. Ralph, Hugh, Jim, and K.P. all had ranches and houses in the area there. They are mostly owned now by Jack Cobb's family, who is the husband of Genevra Goodfellow, Hugh's daughter. He also showed us Ralph's house in town. Some of these family members are burried in the Gordon Cemetery. A more contemorous account is writen in the notes for Ralph Goodfellow.
Notes for Bernadine Marie (Child 1)
Hulda says that Bernadine was a manipulative, sneaky sort of person. She had trouble with her parents and hated being out at the ranch. After 8th grade Clara's sister Wilma offered to have her come to Ashland and live with her family and go to high school. After the first term Wilma got in touch with Clara and Jim and asked that they send money down to pay for Bernadines fare back home because Bernadine wouldn't go to school and they couldn't keep up with her. Bernadine came back to the ranch.
When Bernadine was about three years old she was shot thru the neck with either a shot gun or a rifle. She was very seriously wounded and had neck, back and leg problems for the rest of her life. Hulda had heard two stories about how it happened. Bernadine said the shot came thru the wall and hit her. Others said that the guns were leaned up against a wall and some how fell over and went off and hit her. Either way she had to deal with many problems from this for the rest of her life.
When Bernadine was about 20 she told Clara she was going over to Uncle Ralph's and stay overnight with her cousin Belva. The next day Clara called over and asked Belva to send Bernadine home because she was needed for something. Belva told Clara that she had no idea where Bernadine was but they found out quickly that she'd run off and got married to a young fellow name Roy Leaper who worked for the Goodfellow's from time to time and was the son of Tom Leaper. The Leapers were fine people.The newly weds moved to another issolated ranch and Bernadine was soon moaning about how much she hated being stuck out in the middle of nowhere on a miserable ranch.
In conversation with Hulda on 27 March, 2007, (by phone, with me in Salt Lake City and her at her home in Anchorage, Alaska); she told me another Bernadine story. Somehow Bernadine had gotten a bunch of the old phonograph records and came to the conclusion one day that she didn't want them anymore. She put them in a wheelbarrow and wheeled them down behind a straw structure that was merely bundles of straw stacked around posts that was used to store hay or straw. She got some straw and started burning the records, mixed with the straw. Jim and Clara were working in the fields and all they saw was a column of smoke rising from the straw shelter and t hought it was on fire. This would have been a big loss to them since it had valuable feed or something inside and they ran in from the fields to see if they could put out the fire. Of course there was no real fire, just careless and indiferent Bernadine and one of her stunts.
When Bernadine was about three years old she was shot thru the neck with either a shot gun or a rifle. She was very seriously wounded and had neck, back and leg problems for the rest of her life. Hulda had heard two stories about how it happened. Bernadine said the shot came thru the wall and hit her. Others said that the guns were leaned up against a wall and some how fell over and went off and hit her. Either way she had to deal with many problems from this for the rest of her life.
When Bernadine was about 20 she told Clara she was going over to Uncle Ralph's and stay overnight with her cousin Belva. The next day Clara called over and asked Belva to send Bernadine home because she was needed for something. Belva told Clara that she had no idea where Bernadine was but they found out quickly that she'd run off and got married to a young fellow name Roy Leaper who worked for the Goodfellow's from time to time and was the son of Tom Leaper. The Leapers were fine people.The newly weds moved to another issolated ranch and Bernadine was soon moaning about how much she hated being stuck out in the middle of nowhere on a miserable ranch.
In conversation with Hulda on 27 March, 2007, (by phone, with me in Salt Lake City and her at her home in Anchorage, Alaska); she told me another Bernadine story. Somehow Bernadine had gotten a bunch of the old phonograph records and came to the conclusion one day that she didn't want them anymore. She put them in a wheelbarrow and wheeled them down behind a straw structure that was merely bundles of straw stacked around posts that was used to store hay or straw. She got some straw and started burning the records, mixed with the straw. Jim and Clara were working in the fields and all they saw was a column of smoke rising from the straw shelter and t hought it was on fire. This would have been a big loss to them since it had valuable feed or something inside and they ran in from the fields to see if they could put out the fire. Of course there was no real fire, just careless and indiferent Bernadine and one of her stunts.
Notes for Hulda Louise (Child 4)
Phone # 907-279-8083
According to Barbara Ogden the Wray's had a son who is a teacher on the US East Coast.
" " " " both "Babe" (Hulda L. Goodfellow Wray) and Barbara Goodfellow Ogden had polio when they were young.
Her address is Hulda Wray, 2944 Sheldon Jackson way, Anchorage, Alaska, 99508
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30 September, 2005
I had a fine, 2 and 1/2 hr. phone converstation with Hulda today and learned a lot about the family from her experiences which I will record as best I can remember and from the notes I made during our talk.
According to Barbara Ogden the Wray's had a son who is a teacher on the US East Coast.
" " " " both "Babe" (Hulda L. Goodfellow Wray) and Barbara Goodfellow Ogden had polio when they were young.
Her address is Hulda Wray, 2944 Sheldon Jackson way, Anchorage, Alaska, 99508
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30 September, 2005
I had a fine, 2 and 1/2 hr. phone converstation with Hulda today and learned a lot about the family from her experiences which I will record as best I can remember and from the notes I made during our talk.
Notes for James (Child 5)
HI Mark, Found this while browsing the internet at two AM. Guess I need some sleeping pills huh ? LOL Guess I am not quite sure who this is - Probably because I am brain dead at this time of day, Roger <http://www.rootsweb.com/~nesgs/Ancestree/vol16/v16n3p090.htm>; 30 July 1991 Anchorage Daily News, Page B-2; Column 1-2-3 James J. GOODFELLOW, born 14 September 1926 at Marriman, Nebraska, died 28 July 1991 at the University of Minnesota following complications from heart surgery. He graduated from Ashland Nebraska High School and joined the Navy when he was 17. He served as a pharmacists mate in the Pacific Theater during World War II. After his discharge in 1947 he attended the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. He moved to Alaska in 1951 and joined the Territorial police organization, now known as the Alaska State Troopers. He served the troopers for 23 years. After retiring in 1979 he and his wife moved to Ashland, Nebraska, but returned to Alaska in 1987 to Prairie Farm. He is survived by his wife Goldeen; his son and daughter-in-law Rick GOODFELLOW and Jan INGRAM of Anchorage; his stepson and daughter-in-law Darrell and Beverly RUDE his grandchildren; his sister and brother-in-law Hulda and Ken WRAY of Acnhorage (sic) and his sister and brother-in-law Bernadine and Leroy CAMPBELL of Fort Collins, Colorado. Burial was at the Vanceburg Cemetery in Prairie Farm.
Living in Prairie Farm, Wisconsin at time of death.
second wife named Goldeen who was living with him when he died
2 sons
Darrell A. Rude (Beverly)
James Richard Goodfellow (Janice)
Both of Ancorage, Alaska
3 grandchildren
Living in Prairie Farm, Wisconsin at time of death.
second wife named Goldeen who was living with him when he died
2 sons
Darrell A. Rude (Beverly)
James Richard Goodfellow (Janice)
Both of Ancorage, Alaska
3 grandchildren