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Note: Death info from Marshall County Website posted by Vernon Anderson. Vernon also compiled Marshall County, WV MNarriage files 1835 - 1889 and it shows that Jared and Martha Patty Garner were married a second time on 6 June 1874.
Not sure if this is OUR Jerod but most dates and wife fit: 1870 Hamilton County, Ohio Census shows Jared N. Goddard 64, M/W, b.PA, laborer, living with *Sarah J. 40, W/F, b.KY, Housekeeper, (the information I have is that Jerod married a Sarah Frost bit I have her death as 1853 in Athens, Clark County, MO - This may be her and my dates may be wrong) *A.(can't read the rest of first name) 15, W/F, b.OH *William 4, W/M b.OH *Emma J. 2, W/F, b.OH *John H. 1, W/M, b.OH
From the Tri-County Reporter: Jared Nelson Goddard was born in Greene Co, PA, son of Henry Kellum Goddard and Dorcas Long. On 16 MAY 1828, Jared married Martha (Patty) Garner, daughter of Joshua Garner and Polly Yoho. They were the parents of 8 children: Cornelius, Samuel, Joshua, Thomas, John, Mary, Alice Rachel, and James Patterson. Sometime after 1845, Jared Nelson Goddard supposedly traded his harm for a horse and left the area, heading West, leaving behind his wife and children. Next it appears that he married a woman by the name of Sarah Frost. They are found in Richmond, OH with a daughter Jane, B 1845 VA and a son, Joseph, born in OH in 1847. Richmond, OH is about 12 miles from Cincinnate. In 1853, Jared and family are found in Athens, Missouri. However, Sarah dies nine days after their arrival. In August 1854, Jared Nelson Goddard married Nancy Hardesty Cummings Lemaster. Nancy was born in Belmont Co, OH on 31 MAY 1819. They moved to Croton, Iowa to the farm which Nancy had inherited from her second marriage. They had three children: Leander, Samuel, and Rebecca. Jared Nelson Goddard enlisted in Co C, 37th Infantry of the Iowa Volunteers ("Graybeards") on 15 DEC 1862, at the age of 53 years. He held the position of Private, Corporal and Second Corporal. His military record describes him as 5'8" tall, dark complexion, hazel eyes and hair mixed. He mustered out 24 MAY 1865 at Davenport, Iowa. It has been told that toward the end of the war, Jared, either by letter or when he was home on furlough for a week in the fall of 1864, asked Nancy to sell the farm in Croton and he would use the proceeds to either rent or buy a farm somewhere else. Nancy did as he asked and mailed the deed to him for his signature. She then moved to Keokuk, Iowa to wait for Jared to come home. When Jared was discharged from the war, he took the train as far as Montrose, Iowa and walked the remaining twelve miles home. He arrived in the evening and stayed only a few days and then left, asking Nancy for a little bit of money so he could "hunt up a farm". Nancy never heard from him again and neither did any of the children. Over the years, several rumors were heard of Jared's whereabouts. One story had him returning to Cincinnati. Another had him seen in Kentucky. Perhaps the most interesting story was told to Nancy's son, Peter Lemaster, by a man known to the family as "Doc" Kennedy. He had a patent on a brick machine and traveled all over the country. He told Peter that when he was in West Virginia, he had heard Jared had been murdered there as a result of informing on moonshiners. The big mystery is -- what really happened to Jared Nelson Goddard? Well, the truth is, he returned to West Virginia after the Civil War and remarried his first wife, Martha (Patty) Garner on 1 JAN 1874. Both of their marriages, 1st in 1828 and 2nd in 1874, are on record in Ohio and Marshall Cos, WV. So, forty-six years after their first marriage and approximately thirty years after leaving Martha behind, Jared returned to West Virginia to his first family. What a shock that must have been! Apparently not long after they were remarried, this couple moved out West, as Martha (Patty) Garner Goddard died in 1886 in OK and Jared is supposed to have died in TX, date not known. Most of Jared and Martha's children moved West, too, living in Texas, Oklahoma, Indiana, and Colorado. What happened to Nancy Hardesty Cummings Lemaster Goddard? She spent her remaining years living with some of her children, until her death at the age of 81. She is buried next to many of her children and Hardesty family members. TCR OCT 1993
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