Newton Co., IN Biography


   JOHN D. GODDARD was born in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, 
November 9, 1842, and is one of five children of Benjamin H. and 
Nancy (Deardurff) Goddard, the latter a native of Ohio, the former 
of Maine, whence he emigrated, when a young man, to Tippecanoe 
County, Indiana, remaining there until 1846, when he came to Newton 
County and settled on a farm where he died the next year.  John, who 
was five years old when his father died, attended school in Newton 
County until his mother's second marriage to Andrew Murphey, who 
died at Nashville, Tennessee, when he went with her to Tippecanoe 
County, and remained seven years, coming again to Newton County, 
where he worked by the month until September 7, 1861, when he enlisted 
in Company D, Ninth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and served with the 
regiment until mustered out at Chattanooga September 7, 1864. He 
participated in the battles of Greenbrier, Stone River, Chickamauga, 
the Atlanta campaign, and many lesser engagements.  At Chickamauga, 
he received a slight wound.  After his return from the war, he 
purchased a farm of 120 acres, to which he has added, so he now has 
383 acres well improved, and also upon it one of the best houses in 
the country.  He gives considerable attention to stock-raising.  Mr. 
Goddard was married, February 15, 1866, to Mary J. Kessler, a native 
of Newton County.  Six children have been born to them, five of whom, 
viz. Clara, Anna G., Rachel E., William Al, and Nancy B., are living.  
He and his wife are members of the M. E. Church.  He is also a member 
of Morocco Post, No. 111, G. A. R.  Politically, he is a Republican 
and one of the large farmers of the county. 

Beaver Township, Newton County. A  History of Warren, Benton, Jasper 
and Newton Counties, 1883

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