The Goodrich Family
My Mom kept her family photos and genealogical information which has been useful to me in piecing together her side of my family history and the farm where I grew up. Some of that I present here.
Contents
- A Goodrich Family Outing
- Goodrich Family Gathering with Guests
- Ida Goodrich’s Diary
- The Poem
- Grampa's Rat-rod
I love this picture of Grampa Goodrich and his young family out for a spin on a fine summer day, dropping in on Grandma Digons at the upper place.
I have yet to figure out what occasioned this April 3, 1932 gathering and photo session at Grandpa and Grandma Goodrich's place in Piersonville.
Ida Frances Acker-Carpenter Goodrich was my great-grandmother, wife of Frederick Carlton Goodrich, mother of Frederick Lorenzo Goodrich, my mother’s father.
I found this delightful poem amongst Mom's papers.
Someone, and it very well could have been Grampa, cobbled this runabout together from the parts of 2 or 3 cars. He was always a tinkerer; always building something from nothing. He taught me and my mother well! That’s Mom on her mother’s lap.
A Little About this Photo
The youngest in this picture is my Mom. She was born at the Birge farm, a 1/2 mile west of this scene. The family was living there at the time of Mom’s birth and I assume were still living there when this picture was taken less than two years later. The other two kids are my mom’s older siblings, Ralph and Myrtle. Behind Uncle Ralph stands my Great Grandma Digons.
— revised 2024-07-16 jhc