Eliza (Stinchfield) Goding (1852 - abt. 1927)

Born 4 Mar 1852 in Jay, Franklin, Maine, United States [uncertain]

Ancestors

Descendants

Died about 6 Apr 1927 at about age 75 in Winthrop, Kennebec, Maine, United States

Biography

Birth

No record has been found of the birth of Eliza Stinchfield. Her gravestone says she was born on 4 Mar 1852.^[1] She was probably the daughter of Joel Stinchfield and Fanny (Dolley) Stinchfield of Jay, Maine,, with whom she is shown living at the age of 8 in the 1860 Census^[2] and at the age of 18 in the 1870 Census.^[3] See the Research Note below.

Marriage

Eliza J. Stinchfield married Valorus F. Goding.^[4] The 1900 Census says they had been married for 29 years and that Eliza was the mother of two children, both of whom were then living.^[5] They married at Lisbon, Maine, on 15 Nov 1870.^[6]

Death

The gravestone of Eliza J. (Stinchfield) Goding at the Glenside Cemetery in Winthrop, Maine, says that Eliza died on 6 Apr 1827.^[1]

Research Note

There were two 18-year-old Eliza J. Stinchfields living in Franklin County, Maine, in 1870, the subject of this profile at Jay and a woman of that name living at Strong in the household of Jacob H. Stinchfield and Jane Rideout (Whitney) Stinchfield.^[7] One of these Elizas is undoubtedly the Eliza J. Stinchfield who married Valorus Goding at Lisbon, Maine, in 1870, and the other the Eliza Stinchfield who married Samuel G. Wethern at New Portland, Maine, on 15 Jun 1874.^[8] The Eliza living at Strong is established as the Eliza Stinchfield who married Samuel Withern in 1874 by the death record of their daughter, Jenne (Withern) Rice, who died in California in 1963, whose father is shown as Samuel Withern, and whose mother is shown as Eliza "Stindfield," with her mother's birthplace reported as Strong, Maine.^[9] That leaves the Eliza J. Stinchfield living at Jay with Joel and Fanny Stinchfield as the likely spouse of Valorus Goding.

(Research Note by WikiTree contributor Stu Bloom, 27 Jul 2020)

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Photo of gravestone of Valorus F. Goding and "His wife Eliza J. Stinchfield" (Find A Grave: Memorial #137648461)
2. ↑ Joel Stinchfield household, family #82, in United States Census, 1860, database with images, FamilySearch > Maine > Franklin > Jay > image 10 of 44; citing NARA microfilm publication M653 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
3. ↑ Joel Stinchfield household, family #326], in "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-6Q8Q-2FD?cc=1438024&wc=92KW-D5B%3A518654601%2C518793501%2C519040401 : 12 June 2019), Maine > Franklin > Jay > image 38 of 40; citing NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
4. ↑ Ira Thompson Monroe, History of the Town of Livermore, Androscoggin County Maine; From Its Inception in 1735 and Its Grant of Land in 1772 to Its Organization in 1795 Up to the Present Time 1928 (Lewiston, Me., 1928), page 123
5. ↑ Valorus F. Goding household, family #90, in United States Census, 1900, database with images, FamilySearch > Maine > Kennebec > ED 116 Fayette & Wayne towns > Fayette > image 8 of 27; citing NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
6. ↑ FamilySearch transcription of the marriage record of "Val...is F. Goding" and Eliza J. Stinchfield, in Maine Marriages, 1771-1907, database, FamilySearch > Eliza J. Stinchfield in entry for Val...is F. Goding, 1870
7. ↑ Jacob H. Stinchfield household, family #46, in United States Census, 1870, database with images, FamilySearch > Maine > Franklin > Strong > image 5 of 16; citing NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
8. ↑ FamilySearch transcription of the marriage record of Samuel Wethern and Eliza Stinchfield, in Maine Marriages, 1771-1907, database, FamilySearch > Eliza Stinchfield in entry for Samuel G. Wethern, 1874
9. ↑ Death record of Jenne W. Rice, in California Deaths and Burials, 1776-2000, database, FamilySearch > Eliza Stindfield in entry for Jenne W. Rice, 1963

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