Aaron Goodale III (1822)

Born 31 Jan 1822 in West Boylston, Worcester, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth B (Fales) Goodale — married 11 Apr 1844 in Holden, MA

Descendants

Biography

Aaron Goodale was born January 31, 1822^[1], in West Boylston, Worcester, Massachusetts. He was the son of Aaron and Mehitable (Blake) Goodale.

From "Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County vol2":^[2] Aaron Goodale, third child of Aaron Goodale, Jr., (6), was born in West Boylston, Massachusetts, January 31, 1823. He was educated there in the common schools and began life as a farmer. He founded the first retail ice business in town and carried on the same in addition to conducting his farm, maintaining both callings until 1886, when he retired. He died at West Boylston, April 25, 1898. In politics he was an active Republican and was frequently elected delegate to the various nominating conventions of his party. He served the town of West Boylston as overseer of the poor, assessor and selectman. He was called to many positions of honor and public trust. During the civil war Mr. Goodale belonged to the old State Guard, an independent company of militia for guard duty in Worcester. He was a faithful member and trustee of the Baptist church.

He married Elizabeth Fales, daughter of John and Elmira Fales. Her father was a farmer of Pelham, Massachusetts. She died August 23, 1891. Children of Aaron and Elizabeth Goodale were:

1. Lucretia, born January 16, 1845, died November 14, 1847;
2. Sarah Augusta, born April 19, 1847, married Henry A. Boynton, of West Boylston, and they had six children--Emma Lucretia, born February 18, 1868; Walter Grant, born August 22, 1870, married Bertha Harrison, of Clinton, and has four children: Elbert, Gladys, Dorris and Marion L.; Frank Wayland, born March 2, 1872; Rose Alma, born January 5, 1874, deceased; a son, born May 22, 1875, died young; Flora Christine, born August 16, 1878, wife of Theodore T. Marsh, of Dedham, Massachusetts.
3. Walter Gardner, born November 4, 1849, married Seraphine Smith, of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and they had two children--Nellie S., born September 10, 1872, wife of John S. Murdock, of Providence, Rhode Island; Frank Gardner, born July 4, 1874, married Clara E. Smith, of Florida, and has one son--Walter Gardner.
4. Aaron, see forward.
5. Caroline Elizabeth, born April 5, 1859, died May 27, 1859.
6. Warren, now one of the Worcester county commissioners, born September 8, 1861, married Annie C. Pierce, of Clinton and has one child--William Pierce, born January 14, 1890.
7. Caroline Jane, born March 15, 1864, married Frederick J. Stone, of Shrewsbury; died July 27, 1889, leaving no children.

Sources

1. ↑ Systematic History Fund, Vital Records of West Boylston, Massachusetts, To the end of the year 1849 (Published by Franklin P. Rice, Worcester, Massachusetts 1911)(Free e-book)(Records are also available at ma-vitalrecords.org) p. 25
2. ↑ Crane, Ellery B. (Ellery Bicknell), 1836-1925. 1907. Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts : with a history of Worcester Society of Antiquity.; Free Online