 BITUARIESFulton County, Ohio |
Thomas Goodwin was born at New Church, Radnorshire, England, Dec. 9th, 1829, and died at Delta, Ohio Sept. 3rd, 1894, aged 64 years 8 months and 24 days. He came to America in 1850, and settled at Huron, Erie Co., Ohio. In 1855, he was united in marriage to Miss Rosettie Keen. To them were born eight children, five girls and three boys. The mother of this family died May 7, 1875, and in 1877, Mr. Goodwin was again married to Miss Sarah Bundy, a faithful wife, who with his eight children, one step daughter and one brother mourn the loss of a loving husband and kind and loving father. Among those who knew him long and most intimately, Thomas Goodwin uniformly exhibited the character and sustained the reputation of a man who believed that life's chief concern was to "do justly, love mercy and walk humbly before God." In his domestic social and business relations conscious of the rectitude of his purposes , according to the measure of his light, he sought.to exemplify the great cardinal principals of "friendship, Love and truth," and believing with Solomon that, "the integrity of the upright shall guide them" cherished and cultivated such a spirit in his dealings with men. In his last days, and during his illness, Mr. Goodwin came to understand that the religious life had another side, hither to unknown to him: that a rightenusness pleasing to men might be as filthy rags before God that the soul's only sufficient hope for salvation was Jesus Christ through whom alone he enters the realm of the higher life. It was the privelege of the writer to instruct him more perfectly in this way, to lead him to the cross, to pray with him and finally to hear from his lips the glad expressions of his confidence in Jesus as his Savior from sin. In this faith he peacefully passed from earth to the bosom of the Father above. His funeral services in charge of the society of I. O. O. F. of which he was a member, were held in the M. E. Church, the writer preaching an appropriate discourse from 2nd Samuel xiv-14. "for we must needs die and be as water split, upon the ground which cannot be gathered up again neither doth God respect any person yet doth he devise means that his banished be not expelled from him." His body was laid to rest in Greenlawn cemetery. "Servant of God well done; Thy Glorious warfare past; The battles fought, the race is won, And thou art crowned at last." D. Carter Note: Obituary from Steve Goodwin, TREEmendos@aol.com Return To The Index |
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